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Police are appealing for information after a caravan was stolen from Husbands Bosworth airfield late last night. Officers were alerted just before 11.30pm after the thieves were seen cutting through a wheel-lock, before hitching it up to a vehicle, and driving off the site on Sibbertoft Road. The Police helicopter was scrambled in a bid […]
A magician who grew up in Market Harborough is through to the next round of Britain’s Got Talent after wowing the judges at his audition. What started as a card trick ended with Sean Heydon managing to go back in time, somehow making the clocks on the judges’ mobiles and the phones of everyone in […]
Harborough Council is calling on the government to give it more cash to cope with the impact of Coronavirus. It’s already been handed just over £960,000 of emergency funding, although Council Leader Phil King says much more is needed, as the hit on authority’s finances will be in the multi-millions of pounds. The Council has […]
Brian Kavanagh, Chief Executive of Horse Racing Ireland, believes that March’s Cheltenham Festival “probably” should have been cancelled following the continued spread of the Coronavirus. Cheltenham organisers drew widespread criticism for allowing the four-day racing festival to take place as normal despite numerous images surfacing from Italy showing the effects of Covid-19 and confirmed British […]
A large pile of rubbish has been fly-tipped on the edge of Great Bowden. Containing household and electrical items and even an artificial Christmas tree, it was dumped on Langton Road sometime over the weekend. Harborough Council is investigating and is appealing to anyone who saw the items being dumped to contact them. The closure […]
A car crashed off the A6 into a field near Kibworth last night, leaving the driver – suspected of drink driving – trapped inside. Emergency services were called to the stretch of the road at the end of the Great Glen bypass at 7.45pm and firefighters had to cut the man out of the wreckage […]
A campaign has been launched to recruit more on-call firefighters across the Harborough District. There are vacancies in Market Harborough, Kibworth, Billesdon and Lutterworth. On-call crews respond to 999 calls from their homes or workplaces, so need to live or work fairly close to their nearest fire station. Leicestershire Fire & Rescue would normally hold […]
Boris Johnson has shared get well pictures made by a Market Harborough youngster on his Facebook page. Sophia Blyth, aged 5, who goes to the Market Harborough C of E Academy, sent them to the Prime Minister while he was being treated for Coronavirus. Mr Johnson took time over the weekend to catch-up with dozens […]
People across Harborough are being invited to write a poem about VE Day. A competition is being run by Harborough Council with three categories – under 11s, under 18s and over 18s. Entries need to be in by this Sunday and the winners will be announced on VE Day – next Friday. There will be […]
A van full of Amazon parcels was found by Police within 30 minutes of it being stolen from outside a house in Gilmorton yesterday, after the driver left it running while making a delivery. The vehicle was fitted with a tracking device, that assisted officers in locating it parked up behind the community centre in […]
