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Villages across the Harborough District are being given the chance to adopt their red phones boxes for £1 Eleven of the traditional phone boxes are included in BT’s ‘Adopt A Kiosk’ scheme and the company  wants to hear from parish councils or community charities interested in taking them on if the phone is removed. In […]

It’s all change at Market Harborough Railway Station today! New platforms have come into use after work to connect a new section of straighter track was completed over the weekend, following a six-day closure of the line. A new footbridge to improve access for people who are disabled, those with buggies, or lots of luggage, […]

Major engineering work at Market Harborough Railway Station is on target to be completed on Sunday. The line through town has been closed since Monday to allow for a new section of straighter track to be connected and new platforms prepared for use. The old platforms have also been removed. The work is part of […]

Drivers are being warned there will be no access onto Great Bowden Road from Rockingham Road in Market Harborough for three weeks from June 10th. The closure will enable Severn Trent Water to continue replacing water pipes. A small section of the road – from the railway station junction to Albany Road – will be […]

CCTV has been installed around flats in Market Harborough amid concerns about drug-related anti-social behaviour. The camera has gone up in Jubilee Gardens after Police made a request to Harborough Council. Officers say there have been increased reports of offences being committed within the flats there and near-by surrounding area. They say the CCTV is […]

The former Finance Director of a Market Harborough holiday firm has appeared in Court to face fraud charges. Jamie Tann worked for Diamond Shortbreak Holidays before the company went into administration in March 2017. The 37-year-old, of Savernake Drive, Corby, is charged with four counts of fraud by false representation, three counts of false accounting […]

New plans have been announced to convert a historic building in Market Harborough town centre into apartments. The scheme for Brooklands House on Northampton Road would provide 14 two-bedroomed apartments and one one-bed, with developers saying there is demand for such accommodation in town. It includes a new two-storey building going up at the rear, […]

A driver collecting scrap metal in Market Harborough has had his van seized by Police. Officers stopped the Romanian-registered Mercedes Sprinter on Welland Park Road yesterday afternoon. They say the owner, from Birmingham, had no business insurance or waste carrier licence and the vehicle had two bald tyres.