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A community hub in Kibworth has been transformed thanks to help from a villager who walked 850 miles during the first lockdown last year. Alan Pyke, 82, raised over £4,000 towards the work at The Well, by trekking the distance from Land’s End to John O’Groats, in laps around the Stuart Court retirement complex, where […]

The highest ever number of daily Coronavirus cases were confirmed in Leicester and Leicestershire yesterday. Almost 850 people tested positive according to the government figures, including 82 across Harborough, bringing the total in the District since the start of the pandemic to 3,148. The infection rate in the District remains the second highest in the […]

The chairperson of Market Harborough’s Jubilee Foodbank has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List, for her services to the community during the Covid-19 Response. Liz Mills was awarded the honour ‘for services to the community in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, particularly during the Covid-19 response, which has seen greater demand on […]

Owners of the Shoulder of Mutton pub in Great Bowden have ‘whole-heartedly’ apologised after being issued with a closure notice for breaches of Covid-19 restrictions, in relation to a takeaway service. Leicestershire County Council say how the service was operating constituted ‘a serious and imminent threat to public health’ and acted following consultation with its […]

Some children won’t be able to return to school in and around Market Harborough tomorrow. The Learn Academies Trust say although all its 11 sites will re-open following a teacher training day today, some members of staff have followed union advice in relation to concerns about Covid-19 and asked for amendments to their working arrangements. […]

Cases of Coronavirus across the Harborough District continue to rise sharply. 411 people tested positive in the seven days to yesterday – a 75% increase on the previous week – with 177 new cases confirmed. The district’s infection rate is now 340.1 per 100,000, people according to the latest government figures – the second highest […]

A dog owner says five men who surrounded him and his family in Market Harborough’s Welland Park were trying to steal his pet. The group began talking to them about the dog in the area behind the Rose Garden, before an argument started and eggs were thrown at them. Police are investigating the assault, which […]

Police have named a teenager who died in a crash near Willougby Waterleys before Christmas. Thomas Gamble, who was aged 18 and from Broughton Astley, was the front seat passenger in a Ford Fiesta that crashed into a ditch on Willoughby Road at 3.15pm on December 20th. He was taken to hospital with serious injuries, […]

Leicestershire and Northamptonshire will be subject to Tier 4 restrictions from tomorrow due to rising levels of Covid 19 infections. It means non-essential shops will have to close, along with hair salons and leisure centres. Mike Sandys, director of public health for Leicestershire County Council, said: “We’ve got rapidly-rising infection rates across most of the […]