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A Northamptonshire shoe manufacturer is hoping to open a distribution base in Market Harborough. Kettering-based Loake Shoemakers wants to spend over £100,000 converting the former Heavenly Feet premises off Rockingham Road, which has stood empty since the shop closed last year. Loake want to create a warehouse to store around 6,000 pairs of shoes and […]

Police are teaming up with a Market Harborough business to enable tradespeople to get their tools security marked and registered for free. It follows a large number of vans being broken into across the District in the past three months, with tools worth thousands of pounds stolen. SDS Trade Equipment based on the St Mary’s […]

Sentimental jewellery has been stolen by burglars who broke into two homes on Friday. A 18ct white gold necklace with a diamond pendant (pictured left) was among items taken from a house on Main Street, East Farndon, sometime between 10.30am and 4pm, as well as a matching white, pink and yellow gold bracelet, earrings and […]

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Around 60 farmers, landowners and rural business owners from across the Harborough District are gathering this evening to discuss the impact of crime. It is the first time such an event has been organised by Harborough Council, which will also be attended by the Police and representatives of the National Farmers Union. Livestock attacks, trespassing, fly-tipping […]

A 15-year old-year boy was arrested after Police were called to a reports of fuel being siphoned out of a lorry on the A14 on Saturday night. The teenager was traced after the Police Helicopter and a dog unit was called to assist officers, who had been called to a lay-by on the westbound carriageway […]

Those who helped after a driver became unwell at the wheel on Leicester Road in Market Harborough are being thanked today. Members of the public at staff at Tanvic Tyres went to the man’s aid on Friday afternoon before Police arrived. He had suffered a diabetic-related incident and was given the all clear by ambulance […]

There are calls for a Market Harborough supermarket to do more to improve the safety of shoppers after another pensioner fell victim to a thief in the car park. The 72-year old-woman had her handbag stolen by a man who struck moments after she unlocked her car outside Waitrose on Springfield Street and placed it […]

Harborough Council is proposing no increase in its share of Council Tax this year. The authority’s unveiled its budget plans which include investment in leisure and community facilities..providing more affordable homes and spending ten million pounds buying commercial properties to generate future income. The County Council’s already said its share of bills will go up… […]

A man’s been charged after the window of a hunt saboteur’s car was smashed in Theddingworth. Ryan Gilbert is accused of criminal damage and using threatening behaviour following an incident off Station Road on November 24th last year, during a meeting of the Fernie Hunt. The 27-year-old, from Saddington, will appear before Magistrates next month. A […]