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Staff at a Harborough Theatre venue are celebrating – after their building was shortlisted for a prestigious national award by the Royal Institute of British Architects. Neville Holt Opera – the home of Carphone Warehouse co-founder David Ross – is among six buildings in the running for this year’s Stirling Prize – considered to be […]

Harborough’s Fire and Rescue Service has issued a safety warning to drivers following Thursday’s two car smash at Theddingworth. It’s asking motorists to take into consideration that, when roads are wet, your stopping distance will increase. Officers also posted these dramatic pictures of the two mangled cars on social media – as a warning for […]

The Market Harborough and the Bowdens Charity has announced a major new initiative offering local schools up to £20,000 for individual projects. The organisation, which is celebrating 25 years, has written to all schools in Market Harborough, Great Bowden and Little Bowden inviting bids for the money. The 100% grants will be given to imaginative […]

An out-of-this-world experience is on offer from this Saturday at the award-winning Wistow Maze – exactly fifty years on from when lunar module ‘Eagle’ landed on the moon. Six and a half hours later Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the lunar surface. This year, the creators of the famous Harborough tourist […]

Around 130 farmers, landowners and rural residents have attended a community meeting to discuss the recent incidents of illegal sheep butchery. Wednesday’s gathering was organised by Northamptonshire Police and the National Farmers’ Union following reports of at least five incidents of illegal butchery across the county – including on farms at Kelmarsh and Clipston within […]

Major plans have been unveiled to restructure Northamptonshire Police – including a dedicated new policing area for the north of the county. It’s hoped restructuring the Force along geographical lines “will deliver more effective, responsive and visible policing to communities across Northamptonshire.” The new model, to take effect this autumn, will in fact see the […]

Kids in Lutterworth are set to get an enhanced and updated play area as part of a programme of play improvements across Harborough. The District Council has announced ageing equipment at Mulberry Close is being replaced – and new, inclusive facilities will be added – along with a new surface. It follows similar improvements to […]

Two childhood friends from the HFM area are taking to their bikes to cycle more than 315 miles from London to Paris. It’s in memory of their friend and cousin Sarah Hull, from Stoke Albany, who died aged just 51 last year, following a three-year battle against bowel cancer. Rachel Williamson from Rothwell and Robert […]

Harborough’s MP will be leading a parliamentary debate today about funding for small schools and village schools. Neil O’Brien will take to his feet in Westminster Hall at around half past four this afternoon to express his concern that, over the past decade, rural schools have been twice as likely to close as those in […]

Harborough District Council says it’s taken a “major step forward” in helping to make sure the right development happens in the right place across the Harborough District. Following the adoption of its Local Plan in April this year, the latest data shows that Harborough District Council has a current housing land supply of seven years […]