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Harborough Police have pledged to deal with people breaching lockdown restrictions by gathering in large groups. It’s been happening in various places across the District, including Welland Park in Market Harborough, Little Bowden Recreation Ground and Warwick Park in Kibworth. Gatherings also took place over the weekend on Kibworth Town Football Club’s pitches off Fleckney […]

A man suffered burns to his hands and legs after a fire in a workshop at the back of a house in Stoke Albany last night. He was also treated for the effects of inhaling smoke, before being taken to hospital. Fire crews from Desborough and Corby were called at 8.45pm and used breathing apparatus […]

People are rallying round to help a mother and her three young children who lost nearly all their possessions in a house fire in Husbands Bosworth on Saturday. They have had to move out of their home in Knights Close following the blaze, which started in a shed at about 5pm and then spread to […]

The completion of a new care home in Market Harborough, on the site of the former Cottage Hospital, has been put back because of the Coronavirus pandemic. Acacia Care, who began work on the Coventry Road site last summer, originally hoped it would be completed by August, although now say it’s likely to be finished […]

A Market Harborough Mum whose son’s life was saved thanks to a multi-organ transplant hopes a new law will bring fresh hope to others on the waiting list. Jay Crouch received two new kidneys, a pancreas, liver and bowel in 2018 when he was aged 7 – they are came from a boy of a […]

A Police helicopter has been circling Market Harborough this morning, but there is no need to be concerned. New pilots from the National Police Air Service base in Husbands Bosworth were on a training exercise. The helicopter hovered about the Southern Estate and other areas. A spokesperson for NPAS told Hfm that because of the […]

Market Harborough’s Convoy has now raised over £900 for the town’s Jubilee Foodbank. The latest was held last night to salute NHS and keyworkers dealing with the Coronavirus pandemic, and to coincide with the weekly Clap For Our Carers. Around 50 vehicles passed through town, with people making donations on an on-line fundraising page to […]

Police are appealing for witnesses after a cyclist died in a crash with a car on the outskirts of Desborough yesterday lunchtime. The man, aged 85, who was riding an electric powered tricycle, was involved in collision with a silver VW Polo on Stoke Albany Road, near to the Albany Shed Company base, at about […]

Leicestershire County Council is calling on the government to provide more cash to help it cope with the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic. It says without more help it will be facing a £28m gap in its finances this year with extra costs in adult social care and waste disposal and reduced income from other […]

A woman says she’s been left devastated after thieves targeted the allotments she says is her second home. Over 50 sheds were broken into at the site off West Langton Road in Kibworth sometime between 5pm on Tuesday and 6.30am yesterday, with power tools and gardening equipment worth thousands of pounds stolen. Alison Austin arrived […]