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The Market Harborough Chamber of Trade and Commerce is pledging to do more to speak up for local business. It’s looking for new members to help with that, so it can represent a wider range of the business community. Next week the group is hosting a drop-in event for people to find out more about […]

Thieves have stolen around 100 newly-planted flowers from Welland Park in Market Harborough during the middle of the night. They dug up the Geraniums from beds adjacent to the tennis courts, during the early hours of Monday. Harborough Council say the theft is thought to have happened at about 4am. A spokesman told Hfm: “This […]

A car ended up on its side in a ditch after a crash between Kibworth and Wistow this morning. Firefighters had to release the driver after being called to the Kibworth Road/Station Road junction just after 7.30am, after a Peugeot 207 and Vauxhall Corsa collided. Crews from Market Harborough and Wigston attended the scene, along […]

The design of this year’s Wistow Maze has been revealed and it’s in the shape of an astronaut to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first man on the moon. The theme was chosen after it proved the most popular suggestion when the tourist attraction asked for ideas. The giant maze, which is created in […]

A man who posted a request on Facebook for someone to remove rubbish from his home has been fined three hundred pounds after it was then dumped in a fly-tipping hotspot near Great Bowden. Evidence found amongst the pile of household waste – that even included a crutch – traced it back to an address […]

Four uninsured cars were seized by Harborough Police in the space of a few hours. They were stopped on the A6 near Market Harborough yesterday, with the drivers now facing prosecution. Officers say the can easily identify vehicles with no insurance through ANPR technology.

Harborough Council is to spend £250,000 resurfacing car parks it owns. It follows surveys that found action is needed to improve the condition of surfaces, which are particularly poor in some of them. The improvement work is set to take place first in the Market Hall car park on Northampton Road, the two in St […]

Three under threat bus services will continue operating until at least December. Leicestershire County Council has extended the contracts for the number 33 town service in Market Harborough, the 44 that links the town with Foxton and Fleckney, and the 58 that runs between Market Harborough and Lutterworth. It subsidises those routes, although placed them […]

Market Harborough’s Town Centre Post Office will stay open in its current location until September. A three-month extension has been granted to the branch inside the GT News Shop in St Mary’s Place, which had been due to shut next month. An alternative premises to house a branch in the town centre has yet to […]

One of the sandpit’s in Market Harborough’s Welland Park is to be increased in size so more children can enjoy it. The existing sandpit at the Rose Garden end of the play area will be increased in size and more sand added. Play equipment in the middle will also be removed to create more space, […]