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Hundreds of residents across Harborough are yet to claim a payment to help with the soaring cost of energy bills and will miss out unless they act quickly. Those who didn’t get the £150 paid directly into their accounts earlier this year were instead sent vouchers and 890 residents have yet to cash them in at […]

Customers at The Royalist pub in Market Harborough have been sharing their memories of the Queen on live TV today. GB News has been broadcasting from the pub on the Southern Estate, which itself has a royal connection. Customers who were at the pub for the regular ‘Friendship Lunch,’ organised by home-care provider Home Instead, […]

A teenage boy has been charged with several offences after a car overturned in Lutterworth town centre. The 17-year-old from Grantham in Lincolnshire was arrested after the Audi TT overturned at the junction of Market Street and Church Street on Sunday lunchtime. Leicestershire Police say the boy, who can’t be named for legal reasons, was charged […]

Market Harborough-based fashion retailer Joules says it is no longer in talks with Next about a potential investment worth £15m. Shares in the firm, which employs around 400 people from its Rockingham Road HQ, plunged by 45% yesterday, when emerged there would be no deal between the two Leicestershire-based retailers. Joules, which has been struggling […]

A series of powerful and emotional tributes were paid to the Queen by Harborough councillors last night. The extraordinary meeting of the District Council also heard members pledge their allegiance to the new King Charles. The meeting at the Symington Building began with a minute’s silence and prayer, before councillors, including Cllr Michael Rickman spoke: Cllr […]

Leicestershire Trading Standards have removed items from a former furniture store in Market Harborough as part of ‘enquiries’ into the company. The officers were supported by Leicestershire Police when they visited the former Furniture Loft premises on Riverside, which closed in July. A number of items were taken from the premises and loaded into vans […]

A prolific burglar who fled the country after being arrested for breaking into a house in North Kilworth has been jailed for six years. Eagle-eyed neighbours passed Police the registration number of the car used by Gabriel Ursariu to flee Pincet Lane in December 2018 and officers stopped it shortly afterwards. He absconded while on […]

Two events due to be held in Market Harborough this week have been postponed following the Queen’s death. Harborough Job Fair, due to be held at the Symington Building on Thursday, will be re-scheduled to a later date. A Volunteer Fair planned for the town centre on Saturday is also postponed and will be rearranged […]

Campaigners against a ‘super jail’ being built near Market Harborough are calling on the new Justice Secretary to abandon the plan. They have written to Brandon Lewis MP, who was appointed into the government role last week, in the hope he will stop the Ministry of Justice from pushing ahead with a planning appeal. It […]

Fleckney Festival returns this Saturday. The big event in the grounds of the village Sports Centre will include trade stands, a craft market, classic and vintage vehicle displays, live music and lots of children’s entertainment. It is on between 12pm and 9pm, will finish with a fireworks display and a special tribute to the Queen. […]