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Police are welcoming the announcement CCTV is to be installed in Market Harborough’s Welland Park. The move by Harborough Council is part of investment of over £50,000 in its network of cameras, which will also see additional ones put up in Lutterworth town centre, and be monitored around the clock. Sergeant Pete Jelbert from Harborough […]

A Market Harborough Dad has raised over £6,000 for charity after running the London Marathon on a treadmill yesterday! Dan Barber should have been taking part in the big event in the capital yesterday, although it was cancelled due to the Coronavirus outbreak, and was determined to cover the distance of just over 26 miles […]

Firefighters are issuing a warning after a discarded disposable barbecue set fire to grass in Market Harborough. They were called to Peter Callis Way, off Leicester Road, at 3.45pm yesterday to deal with the blaze, which was close to a small wooded area. Firefighters say it could have easily spread due to the dry ground […]

A prolific shoplifter has been jailed for ten week after stealing from Market Harborough supermarkets. Lesley Fuggle, 40, was arrested last week outside Lidl, after attempting to walk out with a bag full of shopping – just days earlier she stole alcohol from Co-Op on Coventry Road. Leicester Magistrates heard Fuggle, of Petworth Drive in […]

A Market Harborough eleven year old is making good use of his time away from school by making face shields for front-line workers during the Coronavirus pandemic. Joe Hampson, who goes to Robert Smyth Academy, is using 3D printers at his house to produce them in exchange for a donation to NHS charities, and told […]

The final parts of the £2m upgrade of water pipes across Market Harborough begin this week and will last for three months, causing some disruption for drivers. Temporary traffic lights will be in place as new pipes are laid in phases over the next four weeks along Rockingham Road – from near the railway bridge […]

Police say two men who were seriously injured in a crash near East Farndon yesterday are recovering well in hospital. A motorcyclist, aged 50, from Market Harborough, who was in a critical condition, is now said to be stable, as is a 40-year-old pedestrian from Great Oxendon, who was hit by the bike while roller-skating […]

Bands and musicians across Harborough have united to record an album in memory of a big supporter of the local music scene. Andy Nourish, who performed in a number of local bands, died five years ago after a battle with cancer, and proceeds from sales of the compilation, entitled IMBY or In My Back Yard, […]

Children from Meadowdale Primary in Market Harborough have raised over £600 for Leicester’s Hospitals after completing a marathon in the school grounds yesterday. 14 youngsters who remain at school during the Coronavirus pandemic, because their parents are key-workers, and six members of staff, covered the distance of just over 26 miles in shifts. And some […]

A motorcyclist is in a critical condition in hospital after a crash near East Farndon this morning left him and a pedestrian seriously injured. It happened on Oxendon Road just after 8am when the male rider’s Suzuki GSXR bike was involved in collision with a man, who was on roller-skates. Police say the motorcyclist, aged […]