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Plans have been unveiled for an ‘alternative’ Christmas in Market Harborugh this year. The Council is working with retail and business groups, with a view to staging a series of small-scale events with a Victorian theme. Proposals for a Victorian Christmas market are also being explored, as well as Late Night Shopping, children’s Victorian trail, […]

Three men have been arrested in connection so called ‘courier fraud’ incidents in the Harborough District. It comes after four elderly and vulnerable people were contacted by scammers pretending to be Police or bank officials, who told them to withdraw large amounts of money, which would be collected from their homes as part of an […]

Plans for a new ‘Well-Being’ centre in Market Harborough are progressing. The Market Harborough and the Bowdens Charity is working with LOROS with a view to building it on land adjacent to its allotments site on Northampton Road. It would offer services to people with terminal illness, without them having to travel to the main […]

Plastics taken to Market Harborough tip can’t be recycled at the moment. Leicestershire County Council say it’s to ‘maximise the number of people’ using the recycling and household waste site on Riverside, which continues to operate on an appointment only basis, after re-opening in May following an enforced closure because of the coronavirus pandemic. Things […]

Part of Uppingham Community College has been left badly damaged after a fire in the early hours of today. Firefighters from Leicestershire and Northamptonshire tackled the blaze in a three-story block after the alarm was raised just after 1am – nobody was injured. The fire could affect the re-opening of the school, which was planned […]

The New Horizons Café in Market Harborough has closed permanently after serving the town for the past 30 years. The Market Harborough Baptist Church, which ran the popular venue in Manor Walk, says it can no longer sustain the coffee shop in its current form because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The cafe had been closed […]

Police have released a picture of a man they want to speak to after an alleged domestic incident in Rothwell. Officers are appealing for information about the whereabouts of Mitchell Hunter, aged 22, following the alleged incident on on Friday, August 14th. Anyone who sees him, or has information about his whereabouts, should call Northamptonshire […]

An investigation has been launched into allegations of animal cruelty and poor welfare at a Leicestershire pig farm. Secret filming at Flat House Farm in Gilmorton, near Lutterworth, has been released by animal welfare organisation Viva. The graphic images appear to show starving pigs and animals left for dead. Lex Rigby, Campaigns Manager at Viva, […]

Controversial road closures in Market Harborough town centre are to remain in place, although on-street parking is to be reinstated. The announcement follows a review by Harborough Council, which implemented the measures in July to help with safe queuing and social distancing. Parking bays that have been closed on the High Street and Coventry Road […]

It’s “back to school” for some children in the Harborough District this week – the first time many have attended classes for five months, due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The government says all pupils in all year groups must start to return to school full-time from the beginning of the autumn term – and, in the […]