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Six people have lost their jobs with the closure of the Bonmarché shop in Market Harborough. The store in St Mary’s Place is one of 17 to be shut this week, following the collapse of the over-50s women’s fashion chain last October. It had been hoped a rescue deal could have been completed in time […]

A popular vicar has held her last service in Great Bowden. The Rev Bryony Wood is taking early retirement and leaving the village after being Team Rector at St Peter and St Paul’s Church for the past two years. Rev Wood introduced a Pet Service and organised an amazing poppy cascade down the church in […]

Plans for a new flood-lit all-weather sports pitch at Robert Smyth Academy is Market Harborough have moved forward. A planning application for the facility, which would also be used by the town’s hockey club and made available to other community groups, has been submitted. The Academy has received grants to help pay for it, including […]

A specialist team are to lay new large water pipe is under the River Welland in Market Harborough. Severn Trent will begin the work off Rockingham Road, close to the railway bridge tomorrow and hope to have it completed on Sunday. It is part of the final stages of the £2m project to replace water […]

Four men been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a man in Wigston. Howard Staff, who was 66, died after being assaulted during a burglary at his home in Gibson Close, Wigston on Monday afternoon. Detectives are questioning two men aged 20, a 21 year old and one aged 19 after they […]

East Midlands Ambulance Service is set to spend £1m retaining private ambulance services for another three months in order to meet “unprecedented demand”. It currently uses 28 private emergency crews alongside its own each day, but had planned to stop doing so by the end of January. Bosses say their own proposed staffing increases won’t […]

Police investigating how a motorcyclist was blinded in one eye when an egg was thrown at him have received reports of similar incidents in and around Market Harborough on the same night. The 31-year-old rider suffered the life-changing injury when the egg was thrown at him from an oncoming car as he rode toward Wigston on Friday […]

The go-ahead’s been given for major work is to take place at Foxton Locks, which will see the historic flight drained of water for three months. Harborough Council has granted planning permission for the £150,000 project that will be carried out by the Canal and River Trust. It will include replacing oak gates on half […]

A murder investigation has begun after a man in his 60s died after being attacked during a burglary in Wigston. Two men were injured when an intruder got into a house on Gibson Close, at about 3.45pm on Monday. One victim suffered chest injuries and died later in hospital. The second man, in his 70s, […]

Police have raided a house in Market Harborough as part of an investigation into an allegation of money laundering. Officers executed a warrant and carried out a search of the property in Logan Street this morning, although no arrests were made. They were at the house for over two hours. Leicestershire Police say enquiries are […]