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Organisers of Market Harborough’s Arts Fresco hope the event will return this September, if enough funding can be secured. It costs around £40,000 to hold the free street arts festival in the town centre, featuring professional entertainers. Although it’s hoped grant funding towards that, at least two major sponsors are needed and other businesses need […]

Market Harborough’s Food and Drink Festival has won a national award! It has picked up the ‘Best Small Specialty Market’ title at the Great British Market Awards, held yesterday, beating off other entries from up and down the country. The event in Welland Park last August, organised by Harborough Council’s market team, was attended by […]

Harborough Town Football Club is launching a Football Academy. The club has teamed with an education provider to offer it to 16 to 18 year olds, which will see training delivered by FA coaches and them able to achieve a nationally-recognised qualification in sport. Marion Hayton, the club development & commercial manager at Harborough Town, […]

There are calls for CCTV to be installed on part of the Southern Estate in Market Harborough. It’s been prompted by yesterday’s theft of cash from the ATM machine on Western Avenue that was blown-up and an incident last Friday, when three masked men tried to force their way into living accommodation above the nearby […]

Questions are being asked why no work has taken place this week to complete repairs to a burst water main in Market Harborough. Severn Trent started to fix the problem on The Broadway last week after serious flooding. The company says it’s had to order in a specialist piece of equipment needed to complete the […]

A woman who was seriously injured in a crash near Pipewell, at the weekend, has sadly died. It happened at about 10.50am on Sunday, when a black Vauxhall Astra, travelling from Pipewell towards Great Oakley, came off the road, went through a hedge, overturned and came to rest in a field. The driver, a 36-year-old […]

Work is underway to replace trees that had to be felled at two parks for safety reasons. A mix of copper beech, cherry blossom, English walnut, crab apple and American sweet-gum trees are being planted in Market Harborough’s Welland Park – by the dog walking area and the river bank – and at the Little […]

A woman was taken to hospital after a car was involved in collision with a double-decker bus near Braybrooke this afternoon. Emergency services were called to Desborough Road just before 1.30pm. Police say the female driver of the car suffered injuries not thought to be serious. The bus driver and none of the passengers on-board […]

The Post Office is in talks with a number of people who have expressed interest in running a branch in Market Harborough town centre. It comes after the firm revealed earlier this month the current facility inside the GT news shop in St Mary’s Place is set to shut in April, as the sub-postmaster is […]

One of Market Harborough’s oldest shops has closed due to ‘difficult trading conditions.’ The owner of W J Loomes butchers on Church Square is hopeful someone else can be found to take-on the shop, with the lease now available. The shop was bought by Market Harborough-based CJ Galleon Limited last year, after previously trading as […]