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Community groups across Harborough are being invited to apply for cash from a new fund being launched by water firm Severn Trent. More than £10m will be up for grabs over the next five years. The Severn Trent Community Fund is looking to support projects that help people lead healthier lives and gain new skills, […]

Harborough Council could develop a new housing estate near Gartree Prison. It is interested in buying land set to be sold-off by the Ministry of Justice and then building and selling homes on the site, which could accommodate around 150 houses. The Council would invest £16m in the project if it went ahead, with the […]

A motorcyclist has been taken to hospital after being injured in a crash near Wistow this morning. The male rider was involved in collision with a car on Kibworth Road, close to the Station Road junction. just before 10.45am. He has been taken to the Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham, although the extent of the […]

A village pub that was saved by residents will close this Sunday due to falling trade. Landlord of The George in Ashley, Chris Hand, says it’s with a heavy heart he’s made the difficult decision to shut the pub and adjoining bed and breakfast accommodation. He blames challenging market conditions and rising overheads, conceding he […]

Plans have been unveiled to bulldoze a former vehicle body shop in Market Harborough to make way for a new office. If approved it would see the former Iliffe Car body Repair Centre on Leicester Road, which shut last year, flattened, in preparation for a new building to be created in its place. A planning […]

Harborough District Council is proposing no increase in its part of Council Tax bills this year. If approved, as part of the authority’s budget, it will be the second year the charge has been frozen, meaning people living in the the average Band D home in the District paying £167. Finance bosses are finalising budget […]

Controversial plans to charge people moving into new homes across Harborough for wheelie bins – and to replace existing residents’ damaged bins – could be approved by Harborough Council’s Cabinet next week. It would mean residents paying between £74 and £94 for the delivery of a black general waste and a blue-lidded recycling bin, depending […]

There is still hope the Bonmarché shop in Market Harborough can be saved from closure, despite signs indicating it could shut next week. Administrators say talks are continuing in a bid to sell the over-50s women’s fashion chain to sister-firm Peacocks, who have been selected as the preferred bidder for shops across the country. Posters […]

A technical fault meant some drivers were able to park for free in Market Harborough on Saturday. Some payment machines in the Council car parks were giving free tickets, like on Saturdays during December, and others malfunctioned meaning they were charging £6 for an hours’ parking. Councillor Phil Knowles saw first-hand the confusion drivers were […]

The windows of a number of cars parked in Harborough villages were smashed by vandals over the weekend, causing damage totalling thousands of pounds. 15 vehicles were targeted at random late on Saturday and during the early hours of yesterday, including in South Kilworth, Ashby Parva, Upper Bruntingthorpe, Walton, Kimcote and Walcote. Anyone with information […]