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Stephen Mold has been re-elected as Northamptonshire’s Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner. The Conservative won with a majority of over 49,000. Although people went to the polls on Thursday, votes were only counted today. The full result Stephen Mold (CON) – 102,752 Clare Pavitt (LAB) – 53,166 Ana Savage Gunn (Liberal Demorcat) – 29,621 Mark […]

An electrical fault is being blamed for a fire that destroyed two campervans near Rothwell early this morning. Firefighters used water from an near-by open-air swimming pool to help tackle the flames and put a 100-metre cordon in place as gas cylinders were involved. Crews were called to Violet Lane, Glendon at 1.25am. Four cars, […]

Leicestershire’s new Police and Crime Commissioner is pledging to improve rural policing across Harborough. Conservative Rupert Matthews is drawing up his Policing Plan for the next three years, after being elected with a majority of over 33,000. He wants tackling issues like hare coursing, farm burglary and the theft of lead from church roofs to […]

Police have questioned a man on suspicion of supplying cannabis to children in Kibworth. The 18-year-old was arrested in Gladstone Street on Friday night, during a Police operation in response to increasing reports of anti-social behaviour in parks in the village, which included officers working in plain clothes. A quantity of cannabis was also seized. […]

A road in Little Bowden is closed during the day for the next three days so urgent tree works can take place. Bellfields Lane is shut between 9.30am and 3.30pm until Wednesday. Leicestershire County Council say the closure is so emergency work can take place to remove overhanging tree branches from the highway and railway […]

People are being asked to have their say on plans to ban the use of phycoactive substances in public places across Harborough. A six-week consultation has been launched into introducing a new public place protection order. It’s aimed at tackling the increasing use of Nitrous Oxide – known as laughing gas. The legislation would allow […]

Decisions on key planning applications in Market Harborough are to be delayed. A meeting was due to take place von-line tomorrow evening, to discuss the future of Market Harborough’s former Angel Hotel and the first part of major new housing estate. Council meetings have been taking place virtually during the pandemic, but new government advice […]

Leicestershire’s new Police and Crime Commissioner is Conservative Rupert Matthews. He won the election with a majority of over 33,000, taking back the commissioner’s office from Labour, which had held it since 2016. Although voters went to the polls on Thursday, the count didn’t take place until today. The turnout in the Harborough District was […]

The first phase of a massive new development on the edge of Market Harborough is being recommended for approval. 164 homes, 56 of which will be ‘affordable,’ will be built on land adjoining Coleridge Way off Kettering Road, if councillors grant permission next week. Eventually 600 homes will go up on 88 acres of land […]

Over 25,000 people in the Harborough District have now had two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine. That includes 14.518 aged over 70, meaning 91% of that age group living in the area have now had two jabs. The Public Health England figures out today show 81,045 vaccines have been given in the District since December, […]