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The future of Market Harborough’s Peacocks and Edinburgh Woollen Mill stores is in doubt after ‘closing down sale’ posters went up. The owner of the national clothing retailers announced on Friday it plans to appoint administrators in an attempt to save the business. Around 12 people employed across the Harborough stores and are among 21,000 […]

Police are appealing for witnesses after a burglary at a house in Desborough. The front door of the property on Rushton Road was forced open sometime between 3.30pm and 10pm last Thursday (October 8th.) The intruder or intruders carried out a search of the houses, although nothing is believed to have been stolen. Officers would […]

A new campaign is underway urging people across Leicestershire to help stop the spread of Coronavirus. It comes as 105 new cases were confirmed in the Harborough District in a week – 21 in Market Harborough and Little Bowden. Entitled, ‘it’s down to us’, it will see posters and banners in pubs and shops, and […]

A group of travellers who moved onto part of the Commons Car Park in Market Harborough have been given notice to leave by lunchtime on Wednesday. Around ten caravans and other vehicles arrived on the area behind the Co-Op store yesterday. A spokesperson for Leicestershire’s Multi-Agency Traveller Unit, which works on behalf on Harborough District […]

A student in Year 11 at Lutterworth College has tested positive for Coronavirus.  As a result, all other students in the year group have been told to self-isolate until October 21st, although some maybe able to return sooner once close contacts of the pupil have been established. In a letter to parents, Headteacher Nick Summers […]

A Market Harborough pub has temporarily closed after a kitchen porter tested positive for Coronavirus. 11 other members of staff, who had come into contact with the male member of staff, have been told self-isolate and get a Covid test as a precaution. The part-time worker who has tested positive is not unwell and had […]

A motorcyclist was injured in crash with a car on the A6 bypass near Great Glen last night. Emergency services were called to the northbound carriageway just after 6pm and the male rider was treated at the scene, before taken to University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire. Police say the rider’s injuries were not believed to […]

A Market Harborough man who has dedicated the over 30 years to helping the community has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday honours. Roger Dunton has been recognised for his service on the District Council, where he has represented the Welland ward as a Liberal Democrat councillor since 1987, along with his involvement […]

Leicester Tigers and England Rugby legend Martin Johnson has been given a tour of Ridgeway Primary Academy in Market Harborough, where he was a pupil in the late 1970s and early 80s. His visit included being interviewed by a rugby-mad Year Six pupil, which will feature in a film the school is making to inspire […]

New plans have been announced to build homes at the back of a Market Harborough cul-de-sac. The original scheme for 16 houses and bungalows off Tymecrosse Gardens was approved by a government planning inspector three years ago, after developers appealed Harborough District Council’s decision to refuse planning permission, amid concerns about flooding and landscaping. Near-by […]