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Detectives are continuing to gather evidence after a cyber-attack on a Market Harborough school’s IT systems earlier this year. Leicestershire Police say the investigation into the ‘sophisticated hack’ at Welland Park Academy is on-going, including taking statements from pupils who were affected. The school’s IT network was infiltrated and personal computers belonging to over 90 […]

Two main roads in Market Harborough and Little Bowden will close so resurfacing work can take place. Welland Park Road will be shut to traffic between 9am and 3pm this Friday (March 26th) and part of Kettering Road in Little Bowden will be closed during the day next month. The stretch between Gores Lane and […]

A Market Harborough man who made face shields for thousands of front-line NHS workers and others has received around 200 thank you cards and letters. Aaron Shrive used his own 3D printers to produce 7,500 during the height of the first wave of Coronavirus last March, when there was a national shortage of PPE. He […]

The number of people unemployed across Harborough has increased, as the impact of the pandemic on the economy continues to be felt. 1,950 people were out of work and claiming benefits last month – 85 more than in January. Figures out today show the jobless total is nearly three times what it was before the […]

A cherry tree has been planted in Market Harborough’s Welland Park to acknowledge the impact of Covid-19 – one year since the first lockdown began. Blossoming every March, it will serve as a lasting tribute to people who have lost their lives and to those who have offered help and support to others during the […]

People have paused to observe a one minute’s silence in Market Harborough, to remember all those who have lost their lives to Coronavirus. The silence at midday was followed by the tolling of a bell 165 times at St Dionysius Church and other across the area, to mark each person from the Harborough District who […]

Harborough’s Environmental Crime Officers are investigating after the remnants of a large number of cannabis plants were dumped near King’s Norton. They were found yesterday in 15 bin bags fly-tipped at the side of Gartree Road. Soil was also in the bags. The waste is being checked for any clues as to where it came […]

A bell will toll 165 times at churches in and around Market Harborough this lunchtime, to remember each person from the District who has died from Coronavirus. The tribute will following a minute’s silence at midday, part of a National Day of Reflection, a year since the first lockdown was announced. Rev Barry Hill, Team […]

It’s believed traffic lights in Little Bowden were deliberately switched off on Saturday morning. It appears somebody used a ladder to unplug them, meaning the signals either side of the railway bridge on Kettering Road, stopped working. Driver had to negotiate the section of road themselves, until an engineer from Leicestershire County Council arrived to […]