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The Environment Secretary Michael Gove has signed the Harborough Plastics Pledge alongside MP Neil O’Brien. The pledge, that was launched by the Harborough Eco Church in January, encourages people to reduce their reliance on single-use plastics including reusing plastic bags, buying loose vegetables instead of those in packs and recycling more. Mr Gove has joined […]

Firefighters have rescued a cat that had been stuck up a tree in Market Harborough for four days. They were called to Centenary Close by the RSPCA after the black and white female called Boe was heard meowing and spotted clinging onto a branch 20 feet up. The pet had been missing from its home […]

Leicestershire’s Police and Crime Commissioner visited Kibworth this afternoon. Lord Willy Bach walked around village with local Police officers and Councillors, meeting residents and shop owners to discuss crime concerns, before holding further informal talks at the Grammar School Hall. The visit follows problems with anti-social behaviour by some youths, that led to Harborough Police […]

The home of Market Harborough’s town centre Post Office has been put up for let. The branch, inside the GT News Shop in St Mary’s Place, is set to shut in July because the Sub-postmaster is resigning. Agents have started to market the shop, asking for rent of £73,000 a year. No new premises to […]

Nine out of ten children across Leicestershire have secured a place at their first choice primary or infant school. 90.3% have been offered their preferred option, 5.2% their second choice and 1.6% their third. More than 7,500 applications were received – an increase of 3.9 per cent pupils compared to last year. A total of […]

An independent Planning Inspector has given the go-ahead for Harborough Council to adopt its Local Plan. It maps out where development – including thousands of new homes will be built over the next 12 years. It includes just over 1,100 in Market Harborough, 2,700 in Lutterworth and 295 in Fleckney. The move follows a period […]

A drug dealer has been jailed for ten years after Class A drugs worth £100,000 were found by Police at a house in Scraptoft, along with a revolver. Liam Chambers, admitted possessing heroin and crack cocaine with intent to supply and possessing a firearm. Leicester Crown Court heard he was arrested after his DNA and […]

A man has been charged with assaulting a Market Harborough business owner in her beauty salon. Helen Walker suffered facial injuries during the incident at The Beauty Lounge on The Square on November 20th last year. Police have charged Simon Thraves, 46,  of no fixed abode, with assault – he is due before Magistrates on […]

Over 20 independent shops in Market Harborough have teamed up to mark Easter with a fun competition! Each has hidden a ceramic bunny somewhere inside their store with a unique number on. Starting today, youngsters are being invited to hunt for them and then hand in entry forms to any participating shop to win an […]

Environmental campaigners held a protest outside the HSBC Bank in Market Harborough on Saturday. They took in the nationwide ‘Big Shift’ campaign, run by charity Christian Aid, which is pushing for less use of fossil fuels. The campaign says HSBC is to invest billions in coal power energy projects in countries vulnerable to the effects […]