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Harborough Council’s share of Council Tax is being frozen for a second year after its budget was approved a meeting last night. Bills will go up overall from April though, as both the Police and Leicestershire County Council are increasing their charges. Harborough’s budget includes a capital programme of more than £56m over the next […]

Aspiring sports stars across Harborough are being urged to apply to a scheme to help them further their ambitions. Everyone Active – the operator of Harborough Leisure Centre and Lutterworth Sports Centre – is running its ‘Sporting Champions Scheme’ for a fifth year. It offers free access to training facilities, financial support, with grants of […]

Market Harborough’s Aldi supermarket has scrapped single-use plastic bags for loose fruit and veg. It’s one of 100 stores across the Midlands trialing the move from today, to encourage customers to use their own bags or buy a recyclable one. If rolled out nationwide, it would remove the equivalent of around 109 tonnes of plastic […]

Questions are being asked about how many extra hospital services are being provided in Market Harborough since the opening of the St Luke’s Treatment Centre three years ago. NHS bosses promised more hospital services when the state-of-the-art building opened to replace the Cottage Hospital, to save patients having to travel to access them at hospitals […]

Harborough Council say waste removed from two large scale flytip sites last week weighed 45 tonnes and cost £16,000 to clean-up. An investigation is on-going after the massive amount of household and construction materials were discovered on two dead-end roads of the A6 bypass between Kibworth & Great Glen. The massive amount of household and […]

Little Bowden Bowling Club has seen its green transformed thanks to help from the Market Harborough and the Bowdens Charity. It provided part of the funding for the new grass and associated works which has taken place over the past few weeks in preparation for the new season. The previous green had become worn-out. Adrian […]

An arsonist who endangered dozens of lives in Husbands Bosworth is still on the run – a month after absconding from an open prison. Police say there have been no reported sightings of Daniel Milburn, after he fled HMP Kirkham near Preston in Lancashire. The 35 year old was jailed for five and a half […]

Tributes are being paid to a father of two from Rothwell and his grandparents who died in a crash on the A43 on Tuesday. Stuart Ratcliffe, 40, Fred Pritchard, 98, and his wife Jean, aged 90, from Northampton, were sadly pronounced dead at the scene of the collision between Hannington and Sywell. Stuart has been […]

Vandals have caused £20,000-worth of damage after getting into an empty shoe factory in Desborough. They caused extensive damage at the former Dunkelman & Sons base off Gold Street, including smashing all the windows, ripping radiators off walls and destroying light fittings. Police believe a number of people were involved in causing the damage sometime […]

Thieves are targeting elderly shoppers in Market Harborough town centre to steal purses from bags. There have been two thefts in the past week – on Friday an 80-year-old woman was targeted while in a shop on The Square – it’s thought her purse containing £50 was stolen after a woman distracted her when she […]