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Harborough District Council has sold land set for a controversial redevelopment in Market Harborough. The sale to Platform Housing Group means the housing association now owns the whole of the site at the Naseby Square elderly persons’ complex ,on the Southern Estate. Plans to bulldoze bungalows and flats, to make way for 38 new homes, […]

Two men were arrested after Police found a large scale cannabis factory in Upper Bruntingthorpe. Around a hundred plants were found growing in the unit at Walton New Road Business Park. The men, aged 32 and 55, from Bedford, have been questioned on suspicion of cultivation of cannabis and released under investigation while enquiries continue. […]

Harborough Town and Desborough Town football clubs will see their games suspended during the lockdown. The Football Association has announced all ‘non-elite’ fixtures will be put on hold from Thursday until December the 2nd. All training will be be suspended, along with all youth team activities. The Premier League, EFL and National Leagues will all […]

Harborough Town FC is doing its bit to help schoolchildren and elderly residents in care homes stay connected during the pandemic. The club has been awarded £7,000 from the National Lottery’s Coronavirus Community Support Fund, to provide tablet computers to ten primary schools in and around Market Harborough and to the Willows Nursing and Residential […]

The Braybrooke Beer Company has picked up a top award after just two years in businesses. It has been named Drink Producer of the Year in the Great Food Club Awards, which recognise the best independent firms in the food and drink industry across the East Midlands. The shortlist was drawn up following a public […]

A lorry driver is due in court accused of being more than three times the drink drive limit, after being arrested at Magna Park in Lutterworth yesterday. Police were called to reports a HGV vehicle had left the road and collided with a lamppost on Hunter Boulevard just after 11am. Filaret Groza, 54, from Romania, […]

Volunteers across the Hfm Region are gearing up to offer help to those who need it during the lockdown that comes into force on Thursday. Support groups that were set up earlier this year in Market Harborough, Desborough and several villages will again be available to people. Maureen O’Malley is charity manager at Market Harborough–based […]

Two drive-in fireworks displays have been postponed following the announcement of the national lock-down from Thursday. However organisers of the events, that had been due to take place at Market Harborough Showground and The Gliding Centre in Husbands Bosworth this Saturday, have pledged they will still be held in the future, when restrictions allow. Hen […]

Police are trying to reunite a white mountain bike with its rightful owner. Officers found it on Alvington Way in Market Harborough last night and believe it may have been stolen and then dumped. If you think it maybe yours contact Market Harborough Police Station on 101 – proof of ownership will be required.

A poignant Poppy display has been created by firefighters outside Market Harborough Fire Station for the Remembrance period. It features dozen of woollen red poppies, in front of a silhouette of a soldier and nurse, and purple poppies beside the cut-out of a horse and dog, to signify the tens of thousands of animals sacrificed […]