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Campaigners are welcoming progress on Harborough Council’s Climate Change Emergency Action Plan – a draft of which has been published for the first time. It details a number of proposals aimed at making the district more environmentally-friendly and how the Council itself can become carbon-neutral by 2030. The emergency was declared after young people held […]

An investigation has been launched into flooding near three new homes sites. People living by the Burnmill Farm development off Kingston Way in Market Harborough and sites off Saddington Road and Kilby Road in Fleckney have seen their gardens underwater during heavy rainfall. Residents blame the issue on the building sites, saying adequate drainage measures […]

Leicestershire County Council is proposing a 3.99% increase in its portion of Council Tax next year, which will mean about a pound extra a week for the average household across Harborough. The rise, if approved, will help deal with a surge in demand for children’s social care. The budget includes £80m worth of savings but […]

Police have begun targeting shoplifters and thieves travelling to Market Harborough to commit crime. The first of a number of special operations has been held involving uniformed officers and some in plain clothes. It saw them patrolling in the town centre, the railway station and on trains between Corby, Kettering and Market Harborough. No arrests […]

New plans have been announced to build a housing estate on the site of a fencing company in Great Bowden. 33 homes are earmarked for three acres of land off Leicester Lane, which has been home to Bowden Fencing and its saw-mill since the 1960s. A previous similar plan was set to be turned down, […]

Market Harborough boxing legend Jack Gardner will be honoured next year when a green plaque is put up in his name. Leicestershire County Council say final plans are being made as to where it will go in the town, although it will be unveiled by next summer. Gardner was crowned heavyweight boxing champion of Great […]

Residents are demanding work on a new housing estate in Market Harborough is stopped because of flooding problems. Gardens of homes in Kingston Way have been flooded a number of times recently during heavy rain, with homeowners blaming it on the new homes site at the top of the road. On each occasion water has […]

Tributes are being paid to popular Hfm presenter Susan Maxwell, who has sadly died suddenly, aged 69. Known on-air as Soozie Max, she had been involved with the radio station since when it was first set-up in 1995, and played a big role behind the scenes as a key member of the sales team and […]

The new car park at Market Harborough railway station has finally opened. The 200 extra spaces – taking the total number to 500 – is part of the £53m upgrade of the station. There have been calls for the extension to be opened for the past month, as it appeared work on it had been […]

Neil O’Brien has been re-elected as Harborough’s Conservative MP. He increased his majority by nearly 5,000 votes, to just under 17,300, and spoke after he was announced the winner: Labour’s Celia Hibbert came in second place, with 14,420 votes, Liberal Democrat Zuffar Haq came in third with 9103, The Green Party’s Darren Woodiwiss got 1709 […]