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The plan to create new temporary accommodation for the homeless in Market Harborough is set to move forward soon. The District Council wants to build the facility in the town centre and an open evening is now being planned, so residents and businesses can find out more. The authority wants to demolish a disused property […]

Harborough Town Football Club have been given the go-ahead to install a new 100-seat grandstand. It will increase seating capacity at the Community Ground, which is one of the stipulations of playing at a higher level of the football pyramid, following the Bees’ promotion this season. Members of Harborough District’s Council’s planning committee unanimously approved […]

Harborough District Council has a new Chairman. Cllr Neil Bannister, who has served on the authority for the past 12 years, received the chains of office at a meeting last night. Cllr Bannister, who represents the Dunton Ward, has chosen to support the Leicestershire and Rutland branch of the Motor Neurone Disease Association during his […]

Police are appealing for witnesses after a man and teenage boy were seriously assaulted in a Market Harborough car park. The pair was punched by a man in the Sainsbury’s car park at around 12.15am on Sunday. Leicestershire Police say a 20-year-old man suffered serious facial injuries and a 14-year-old boy was knocked unconscious. The […]

A group of travellers have moved onto an area of a car park in Market Harborough town centre. Two caravans and other vehicles arrived yesterday in the far corner of the Commons car park off Coventry Road. Harborough District Council say the group have been spoken to by Leicestershire’s Multi-Agency Travellers Unit and are set […]

Two Olympic gold medalists have been officially awarded the Freedom of the Harborough District. Sailor Dylan Fletcher, who grew up in Market Harborough, and Laura Sugar, a Paralympian canoeist from Billesdon, both won gold at the Tokyo Games last year. The title, the highest accolade the District Council can give anyone, was granted to the […]

A pet cat believed to have been stolen from Desborough has been found safe and well two months after going missing. Duke, aged seven months, was spotted last night three miles away in Rothwell and is now back home with his ecstatic owner. Lynda Sharpe launched a major appeal to find her pet after he […]

A Market Harborough man who assaulted a Police officer during a disturbance in the street has been jailed for 20 months. Benjamin Lee kicked the constable in the face while being arrested on Logan Street on April 25th. Leicester Crown Court heard Police had been called when he starting acting aggressively towards occupants of a […]

Nearly 2,000 new homes earmarked for Leicester could have to be built in the Harborough District. A lack of suitable land in the city means other areas of the county have a legal obligation to take on some of the shortfall over the next 14 years. The proposal would see 123 extra houses built across […]

Hfm’s Moley is swapping the studio for the road this week as he takes part in a big fundraiser from one end of the country to the other. Together with nine other lovers of Mazda MX5 cars, he’s driving from Land’s End to John O’Groats, in support of charity Stand Up To Cancer. The ‘Driving […]