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Temporary traffic lights installed either side of the railway bridge on Kettering Road in Little Bowden last year are set to be made permanent. They were put up as part of a scheme to support safer cycling and walking during the Covid-19 lockdown and highway bosses say they have received lots of positive comments since. […]

Lutterworth Golf Club has received hundreds of messages of support after its clubhouse was destroyed in a fire over the weekend. It’s to re-open the course as soon as the investigation into the blaze is complete and says the base will be re-built as soon as insurance money is agreed, with temporary facilities put it […]

An investigation is underway after a major fire destroyed the clubhouse at Lutterworth Golf Club. Eight fire crews battled the blaze after it broke out at the large building off Rugby Road just after 10pm last night. The single-storey building has been left completely destroyed – no one injured. To complicate the firefighting operation, there […]

Plans are progressing to introduce new powers to help tackle the increasing use of so-called ‘laughing-gas’ across the Harborough District. A public consultation is set to be launched next month by the District Council, into introducing a new public place protection order. If implemented, it would ban people from using Nitrous Oxide in public places […]

The RSPCA is appealing for information after a group of boys threw a hedgehog into the River Welland in Market Harborough. Witnesses saw them blowing cannabis smoke into a bag containing the mammal, before it was thrown into the water. Thankfully, they were able to retrieve the hedgehog and its now being cared for at […]

Over a quarter of adults in the Harborough District have now had both doses of the Coronavirus vaccine. 22,230 (27%) people are now fully immunised. Latest figures from Public Health England show 54,348 people have had a jab across the District since December, with 67% of adults now having at least one dose. 75% of […]

Police say it’s believed nobody was seriously injured in a crash on the A6 near Desborough this morning. It happened close to the Desborough Road/Braybrooke Road roundabout at about 10am and involved a VW Polo, a Hyundai Tucson and a van. A spokesperson for Northamptonshire Police told Hfm: “Paramedics have been treating the drivers at […]

Harborough’s train passengers are saying goodbye to the iconic Intercity 1-2-5 high speed trains. After almost 40 years, they are being retired from service by East Midlands Railway, because they no longer meet disability access or environmental standards. Steve Jones, chairman of Harborough Rail Users’ Group says it’s the end of an era for the […]

Specialist equipment is being drafted in after a large spillage of offal on the A14 between Kelmarsh and Welford. Highways England are trying to clean the westbound carriageway after a poultry lorry shed its load this morning. The road is closed between Junction 2 and Junction 1, with congestion and queuing traffic on roads in and […]

A church building in Market Harborough town centre is set to be converted in four apartments. Harborough District Council has given the go-ahead for the work at the The Old Fire Station Annex off Fairfield Road, located between Abbey Street and the Angel Street car park. The plan, which includes four car parking spaces, doesn’t […]