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A Market Harborough woman wants to give hope to children during a six-day trip to a refugee camp in Greece. Emma McNamara is making her eighth visit in three years to the country, returning to one of the camps she has volunteered at before. As part of a screen-printing art project entitled ‘Birds Of Hope,’ […]

Police are appealing for information after a burglary at a Market Harborough tea room early this morning. The intruder got into Sweet Pea’s Tea Room on Adam and Eve Street after forcing open a rear window before stealing cash and a laptop. The man also took a CCTV camera from inside, but not before it […]

The British Red Cross are in the Commons Car Park in Market Harborough today, from 11am until 2.30pm, looking for new Community Reserve Volunteers. They assist during emergencies with things like filling sandbags during floods, putting together food packages and providing transport assistance. The event’s taking place at the end of National Volunteers Week and […]

A thief who targeted shops in Market Harborough has been jailed for 17 weeks. Lesley Fuggle admitted five theft offences at Leicester Magistrates yesterday, including stealing alcohol from supermarkets. The 39-year-old of Petworth Drive, Little Bowden, was arrested by Police on Wednesday.

Final plans are being put in place ahead of tomorrow’s Market Harborough Carnival. Volunteers, who took over running the event last year, say they have turned into more of a festival this year, with live music continuing at the Symington’s Recreation Ground into the evening. There will be all the traditional elements too, including the […]

A Leicestershire woman who killed her newborn baby by forcing something down her throat and then leaving her to die, has been jailed for life. Hannah Cobley, 29, left the child wrapped in plastic bags in an overgrown area at a farm in Stoney Stanton, where she lived with her parents. She later searched the […]

Leicestershire Police has referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct after the death of one of its most senior detectives. Det Ch Insp Rob Widdowson died on Monday afternoon, just hours after being interviewed by the force over a fraud allegation. The circumstances surrounding his death near Syston are being investigated by British […]

A warning is being issued after a distraction thief stole a mobile phone from a hair salon in Market Harborough yesterday. The man went into Charlotte Frances in Northampton Road at about 12.20pm and distracted customers and staff by asking to use a pen. He then stole a customer’s phone from the reception area by […]

£100,000 has been secured for a new skatepark in Kibworth. Cash from developers who have built in the Kibworths will pay for the facility, after it was obtained by the Parish Councils. It can’t go up on the parks they own, because access for construction traffic would prove difficult and it would be too close […]

Concerns about Market Harborough’s Urgent Care Centre have been aired by a health watchdog. In recent weeks a number of people have been left unhappy at being turned away from the out-of-hours service at the St Luke’s Treatment Centre, which is advertised as a ‘walk-in’ service, being told they need to make an appointment. Leicestershire […]