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A plan to create new accommodation in Market Harborough for people made homeless is set to move forward later. The District Council’s Cabinet is being urged to push ahead with the £956,000 project, which would see a new purpose-built building go up on Roman Way, close to the Church Square junction, pending approval of a […]

Police are concerned for the welfare of a man missing from Swinford and are appealing for the public’s help to find him. Joseph Reynolds, aged 35, was last seen at around 10pm yesterday and was reported missing this morning. Joseph has never been missing before and is described as 5ft 9ins tall, of a slim […]

A man from Great Glen who funded the Islamic State terror group using Bitcoin has been jailed for 12 years. Hisham Chaudhary, of Chestnut Drive, had denied converting tens of thousands of pounds into the cryptocurrency to back the organisation, but was found guilty of seven terror offences. The judge at Birmingham Crown Court said […]

The major expansion of a Market Harborough business park is set to move forward as a planning application is prepared. Leicestershire County Council wants to build 27 new units at Airfield Business Park off Harborough Road, as the current 12 as now all occupied. The development would cost around £9.5m, although money generated from rent […]

Around 400 tonnes of hay bales worth £30,000 were deliberately set alight in a field near East Carlton on Saturday evening. Fire crews from Desborough, Kettering and Corby spend several hours tackling the blaze, after being called to a field on Pipewell Road, off the A427, at 8.20pm. The arsonist targeted a large number of […]

Volunteers at Harborough Community Bus are celebrating the opening of their new base and the arrival of a new minibus. The charity’s garage in the grounds of Rosewood Manor Care Home on Coventry Road has been extended and refurbished thanks to grants totalling £19,000. The group provides accessible transport to anyone who needs it because […]

Extra measures are to be taken to secure a former factory site in Desborough dubbed a ‘death trap’ by Police. It follows a multi-agency meeting between Police, the Fire Service, council officials and owner of the former Dunkelman and Son site off Gold Street, amid fears people are risking their lives by entering derelict and […]

Harborough MP Neil O’Brien has welcomed news that pet theft will be a criminal offence in England. Under new laws, people who steel dogs and cats could be handed five years behind bars. Previously, pets were classed as property, which ministers say didn’t take into account the severe emotional distress suffered by owners. A number […]

Harborough’s Pheonix Saxophone Orchestra have been shortlisted for a top award – the equivalent of an Oscar for live classical music. It’s after they collaborated on-line with a sax orchestra in Scotland earlier this year to record an arrangement of the rousing march ‘Entry Of the Gladiators.’ They’ve jointly beaten off competition from projects across […]