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Firefighters in Market Harborough will be swapping hoses for sponges this Bank Holiday Monday for a charity car wash. The event at their Fairfield Road station runs from 10am until 3pm and will raise money for the Fire Fighters Charity, while also supporting the town’s Jubilee Foodbank. People attending are being encouraged to bring along […]

Market Harborough has been transformed back to wartime Britain for a 1940s-themed weekend in the town centre. The event today and tomorrow features live music at Harborough Market, vintage vehicles in St Mary’s Place, and a vintage Ferris wheel on The Square. Gail Bates, Market and Events Manager at Harborough District Council, explains more:

A fire in the back garden of a house in Rothwell is believed to have been started accidentally. Firefighters from Desborough were called to a property on Glendon Road shortly before 5pm yesterday. They found a small quantity of fencing and a hedge on fire and used hose reel jets to extinguish the blaze. Northamptonshire […]

A decision to grant planning permission for a building at an equestrian business in Smeeton Westerby is to be reconsidered after an incorrect map was shown to councillors. The map, displayed at a meeting last week, identified the wrong property on the site on Saddington Road. Harborough District Council says the application for a temporary […]

A row has broken out over the removal of dens built on public land in Market Harborough. Harborough District Council has hit back at criticism — with some accusing it of being the “fun police” — saying the structures in a wooden area off Simborough Way are unsafe and unstable. It warns someone could be […]

Over a hundred children are taking part in a fundraising busking event in Market Harborough today. They are performing outside Harborough Market in St Mary’s Place until 1pm, raising money for LOROS Hospice. Seven primary schools from the Learn Academies Trust are involved: Church Langton, South Kilworth & St Andrews, Ridgeway, Husbands Bosworth, Great Bowden, […]

Residents in Market Harborough have voted overwhelmingly in favour of plans for a new town council. In a poll held yesterday, 4,243 people voted in favour, compared to 685 against, with 86% supporting the proposal and a turnout of 24%. Supporters say the new council would strengthen local representation amid wider local government changes, and […]

An 82-year-old man reported missing from Market Harborough has been found. Robert Newton, who was last seen earlier today, was located in the town late this afternoon. Police launched a search, including in the town centre, over concerns for his welfare, and have thanked everyone who shared the appeal and helped with enquiries.

A woman has appeared in court charged with stealing items worth more than £600 from two shops in Market Harborough. Rebecca Page, 48, is accused of three thefts from The White Company on High Street and two from the Co-Op on Leicester Road between October last year and March. Page, of Nichols Avenue, Market Harborough, […]