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A 16-year-old-boy has been found guilty of stabbing a man at a park in Fleckney. The teenager had denied attacking the 18-year-old at the Edward Road Play Park on August 20th last year, but has been convicted following a trial at Leicester Magistrates’ Court. The victim suffered multiple stab wounds and was taken to hospital […]
An investigation is underway after rubbish was dumped on a country lane near Medbourne. Tyres and household waste was fly-tipped on Uppingham Road. Harborough District Council’s Environmental Crime Team is appealing for information about who was responsible. Anyone who can help should email tipoff@harborough.gov.uk.
Around 40,000 pumpkins have taken over eleven acres of fields at Farndon Fields Farm on the edge of Market Harborough. It is the biggest amount to ever be grown ahead of Halloween, with eight different varieties in all shapes and sizes covering the landscape. All were grown from seed and the farm’s first pumpkin picking […]
The Covid-19 infection rate across Harborough has dropped by a quarter in the past week. Increasing numbers of schoolchildren testing positive had seen it rise to the fifth highest in country last week. Mike Sandys, Director of Public Health for Leicestershire, updated Hfm: The infection rate per 100,000 people has fallen from 664.7 to […]
Children across Harborough who receive free school meals will be given a £15 meal voucher to make sure they don’t go hungry during October half term. The move will also be extended to eligible children who are in early years education or have special educational needs. The initiative across Leicestershire, which follows Marcus Rashford’s high […]
Over 143,000 Covid-19 vaccinations have now been given across the Harborough District. Latest figures from Public Health England show just over 73,500 people have had one jab and nearly 70,000 both doses. 89% of people aged 16 and over living in the District have had one jab and 84% both doses. Over 44,000 vaccinations have […]
An additional family from Afghanistan fleeing persecution from the Taliban will be housed in the Harborough District. The Council will now support three families of people who worked with British forces before their withdrawal, through a government funded relocation scheme, after initially pledging to help two. The families, who were evacuated last month and are […]
A driver who rammed a Police car during a high-speed pursuit across North Northamptonshire has been jailed for seven months. Lee Roy Holland failed to stop for officers in Braybrooke and then travelled along the A6, A427 and back roads, before crashing his Audi A3 at the entrance to a field in Brampton Ash. Officers […]
Police are appealing for information after a robbery at a shop in Lutterworth in the early hours of yesterday. A male member of staff suffered a hand injury after they were forced into a back room, when three masked men targeted the Spar, at the Texaco Service Station on Leicester Road. They then stole cash […]
Crime has fallen by 14% across Harborough in the past year with 691 less crimes reported to Police. The biggest drops were in burglary, vehicle crime and shoplifting – all down by around 50% on the previous year, with periods of lock-down likely to have contributed to the falls. Violence with injury increased by 26% […]
