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A man has been taken to hospital with a head injury after falling off a ladder and landing on a flat roof in Wilbarston.  Emergency services were called to Springfield Road just before 1pm, with firefighters using a stretcher, ladders and lowering lines to safely get him to the ground. Northamptonshire Fire & Rescue Service […]

Life-saving flying doctors serving the Hfm region have flown their 40,000th mission today. The two helicopters began operating in 2003 and continue to take to the skies thanks entirely to public donations, with no central government funding. Former patients of the Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Rutland Air Ambulance and Warwickshire & Northamptonshire Air Ambulance, both operated […]

Harborough’s MP is throwing his weight behind the ‘Shop Local’ campaign and is encouraging people to support independent retailers in Market Harborough, or risk losing them. Neil O’Brien has been visiting business owners in the town centre, as they battle to survive the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic. It is the second week that ‘non-essential’ […]

There was lots of smoke, but luckily no fire at a Market Harborough jewellers this morning. Passers-by called 999 when they saw it billowing out of the door of Denhams, on the corner of The Square and Adam and Eve Street just after 10am. The ‘smoke cloak’ anti-theft device had activated accidentally when a shop […]

Severn Trent say problems with water supplies in the Kibworth area have now been resolved. It affected parts of Kibworth and Smeeton Westerby from early this morning, leaving some villagers with no water and others with extremely low pressure. The problem was linked to a repair being carried out in the area, but the company […]

Police have pledged to take action against a minority of youths causing problems in parks across Harborough. There has been an increase in reports of drunken anti-social behaviour including at the Symington’s Recreation Ground in Market Harborough and Little Bowden Recreation Ground. Officers are using powers enabling them to confiscate alcohol from adults, but say […]

An investigation has been launched after rubbish was fly-tipped on a country road near Tugby. Harborough Council say evidence found among the pile of household waste on Hallaton Road, which even included a spectacles case, could trace it back to where it came from. Anyone with information about the flytipping is urged to contact Harborough […]

A man told by doctors he should not have survived a crash at an accident blackspot on the outskirts of Market Harborough, is backing a call for urgent safety improvements there. Trevor Goodwin from Rothwell spent three months in hospital, including four days in an induced coma, after suffering life-threatening injuries when his car was […]

No further action is to be taken against three people suspected of involvement in the alleged petrol bombing of a caravan in Desborough last month. A man aged 44 from the town was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and a 22-year-old man and 23-year-old woman from Desborough on suspicion of arson, following the disturbance […]

Emergency services are thanking members of the public who assisted after an elderly man collapsed in Market Harborough yesterday lunchtime. Despite their efforts and those of paramedics, he sadly could not be saved, and was pronounced dead at the scene on a pathway off Dallison Close, adjacent to Harborough Town Football Club. Harborough Police have […]