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Work is beginning on the site where 600 new homes will be built on the edge of Market Harborough. Fencing is being erected and other preparations made off Kettering Road at Clack Hill, before construction work begins. The development – to be known as ‘Overstone Park’ – will go up on 88 acres of fields […]

The number of Police officers based in Market Harborough will increase next month. ‘Response’ teams, who attend 999 calls, will return to the Fairfield Road station, five years after changes, as a result of cost-cutting,  saw them moved to a central hub Leicester. The move is part of a new operating model being introduced by […]

Severn Trent Water has apologised after residents were woken up by loud drilling in the early hours of today on Kettering Road in Market Harborough. The firm says the work – connected to the upgrade pipes – was carried out overnight as it was likely to have caused water supplies to go off. Some people […]

A new fundraising event will take place later this year at Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground. Harborough Twenty12 Lions Club will host the Midsummer Dream Walk on Sunday June 21st, giving participants the chance to walk along one of the UK’s longest ex cold-war runways, with views of preserved cold-war planes – which is not normally open […]

A missing man, who Police believed may have been in and around Wilbarston, has been found safe and well. Searches took place on Friday for Kevin Goodyear, who had been missing from the Crick area of Northamptonshire for a week. Officers are thanking volunteers who assisted in the search and shared their appeal.  

Around 40 farmers and rural business owners attended a special event last night to discuss crime concerns. It was hosted by Harborough Council’s Community Safety Partnership at the Coplow Centre in Billesdon and attended by other agencies, including Police. There has been a spate of thefts of off-road vehicles from isolated barns across the Harborough […]

Brooke House College in Market Harborough has moved to quash rumours and offer reassurance over the Coronavirus. Mike Oliver, Principal of the college, which has 20 Chinese students out of a population of just over 300, has spoken out after being contacted by some local people and posts of social media, fearing some had been […]

Burglars have stolen a ‘substantial’ amount of cigarettes worth thousands of pounds from a Market Harborough supermarket. They smashed their way into the Co-Op on Coventry Road at around 11.40pm last night, through a window and then forced open a cabinet containing the cigarettes. Police are appealing for information and want to hear from anyone […]

Sport and community facilities across Harborough are to be boosted by grants totaling over £700,000. In Kibworth, the Cricket Club is getting £60,000 to help towards its new pavilion project and £26,000 will pay for a new multi-use games area at the Warwick Road Recreation Ground, after it was handed to Kibworth Harcourt Parish Council. […]

A new hydrotherapy pool is to open at Harborough Leisure Centre – thanks to people who donated £48,000 to a fundraising appeal launched 28 years ago. The facility, which will help those with arthritis, back pain and muscle injuries, was first thought about in 1992, and various events were held to raise money for it. […]