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32 drivers have been arrested in the first week of Leicestershire Police’s Christmas drink and drug drive campaign. Officers say the figures, nearly three times the number during the first seven days of the campaign last December, are ‘concerning and very disappointing.’ 22 people failed a roadside breath test for being over the drink drive […]

Another ‘stranger danger’ alert has been issued after a suspicious incident in Market Harborough. A man in a blue Land Rover pulled up alongside two school boys at the corner of Ashley Way and Simborough Way and kept asking them for the time, despite one of the youngsters noticing there was a clock in the […]

Police have questioned a woman aged 19 and a 15-year-old boy about a spate of criminal damage in Market Harborough. They were voluntarily interviewed by officers this morning, who say the investigation is on-going, and no charges have yet been brought. Christmas decorations, garden items and some cars were damaged in eight streets off Coventry […]

The electrification of the railway to Market Harborough is moving closer. Network Rail is drawing up detailed plans to install over-head power cables from Kettering and upgrade some bridges along the route, through Desborough, Braybrooke and Little Bowden. It will be the next phase of the £1.5 billion Midland Mainline upgrade, which has already seen […]

There is reassurance supplies of the new Covid-19 vaccine are coming to Leicestershire, after the county’s hospitals were not on the list of the first 50 in the country to get them. NHS England say stocks of the Pfizer-BionTech jab, which started to be administered for the first time today, will be delivered to hospitals […]

The Learn Academies Trust, responsible for 11 primary schools in and around Market Harborough, has been awarded funding of £200,000 from the government. It will be used to help boost support for pupils with disabilities and special educational needs and make other improvements including upgrading IT infrastructure. The grant has come from a fund given […]

The Harborough Band is bringing festive cheer to shoppers in the town centre by playing carols in St Mary’s place on weekends in the run-up to Christmas. The band, which is unable to visit streets in the run-up to Christmas, is thanking people for their support this weekend and is urging people to continue to […]

Leicestershire Police issued over 123 fines for breaches of Covid-19 rules during the second lockdown. Four of the maximum £10,000 fines were issued after house parties took place in Leicester and Hinckley. Some of the lesser fixed penalty notices were issued in the Harborough District, mainly to people from different households gathering in groups who […]

Some people paid to park in Market Harborough on Saturday, when it was actually free. There were no signs in car parks, or displayed on payment machines, telling drivers that charges are suspended on Saturdays in the run-up to Christmas, to encourage people to ‘shop local.’ Harborough District Council has apologised and is to refund […]

Vandals have ruined the spirit of Christmas by cutting wires to festive lights outside houses in Market Harborough and trashing decorations. They struck in the early hours of yesterday in streets off Coventry Road. The mindless acts of destruction also included wreaths being taken off doors and wrecked, miniature Christmas trees and other plants ripped […]