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A new three-day Cheese and Ale festival has begun in Market Harborough. Taking place on The Square, an array of cheeses and ales are on offer from local, regional and international traders. Harborough Council has teamed up with RR Events to host the event, which is also showcasing food traders from the company’s Continental Street […]

The former finance director of a Market Harborough holiday firm that went bust has been charged with a number of fraud offences and perverting the course of justice. Jamie Tann, worked for Diamond Shortbreak Holidays that went into administration in March 2017, resulting in loss of 52 jobs in Market Harborough and 26 in South […]

Harborough’s new Local Plan, which maps out where development will go over the next 12 years, is a step closer to being adopted. Members of the Council’s Executive gave their backing to it at a meeting last night – it will now be considered by the Full Council next week, which is the final part […]

It’s emerged vandalism and driver jumping red lights has contributed to traffic chaos on Leicester Road in Market Harborough in recent days. There have been on-going problems with the lights failing at the Alvington Way junction. Gas firm GTC has apologised as some of the faults were as a result of equipment failing, but on […]

Two people have been freed by firefighters after being trapped in a car that overturned onto its side on Fairfield Road in Market Harborough. Emergency services were called to near the Market Harborough C of E Primary School just before 3.30pm. Fire crews from Market Harborough and Wigston attended the scene together with ambulance service […]

A young Market Harborough-based musician is launching his debut EP tonight. Alex McCarthy, 19, will perform a number of songs from the album titled ‘Wraith’ at a special event taking place at Louisa’s Place in Market Harborough from 8pm. The Robert Smyth Academy student bases his music on his struggles to make it into the industry, […]

A Lutterworth teenager has admitted his part in an armed robbery at a jewellers in Hinckley. Aiden Rudock, 18, of Gloster Road was arrested a short time after the raid in January when the gang’s getaway car crashed in Market Bosworth. Together with three other men, he has pleaded guilty to robbery at Leicester Crown […]

A man has been taken to hospital after collapsing in Market Harborough this morning. Ambulance crews were called to Adam and Eve Street just before 10am and were assisted by paramedics from the Air Ambulance, which landed at the Symington’s Recreation Ground. The man was taken to Kettering General Hospital by land ambulance. Police blocked […]

Harborough has made it onto a list of top 10 areas where house price growth has outpaced wages over the last two years. It was compiled by researchers using analysis from the Halifax house price database and earnings figures from the Office For National Statistics. The two-year increase in Harborough house prices amounts to £69,604, […]

Drivers are becoming increasingly frustrated that temporary lights on Leicester Road in Market Harborough keep going faulty. The latest problem is this morning, with the lights at the Alvington Way junction stuck on red in all directions, leading to long tailbacks and chaos as drivers try to negotiate a way through. There were similar problems […]