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A woman was injured after the car she was driving overturned into a ditch near Arnesby. Emergency services, including the Air Ambulance, were called to Fleckney Lane at 11.15am yesterday. Firefighters cut the driver out of the wreckage and she was taken to hospital by land ambulance, with what Police describe as ‘minor injuries.’   […]

Police have seized an uninsured car after a 16-year old-boy was caught driving it in Market Harborough. Officers stopped the Audi A5 convertible on Northampton Road, just before 2pm on Saturday, following reports from concerned members of the public that the driver was ‘young-looking.’ Enquiries are continuing, before any action is taken again the teenager.

A special collection is being held in Market Harborough today and tomorrow to help raise funds for serving and ex-servicemen and women. It’s to mark the start of the Wings Appeal, run by the Royal Air Force Association. Members of the town’s branch are also be manning a stall in the Market Hall over the […]

A young woman has been charged with drink driving and obstructing a Police officer after a car crashed into a garden wall in Market Harborough early this morning. The 21-year-old was arrested after Police were called to the scene in Hammond Way just after 1.30am. Officers say four people were in the car, although no-one […]

A man’s been released by Police under investigation  after a security alert at a village school yesterday morning. He was arrested close to South Kilworth C of E Primary School just after 9am. Members of the public had disarmed a man who was carrying a knife. The school was put on lockdown for a time […]

A protest by over 200 Prison Officers at HMP Gartree over violence and safety concerns have been called off. They joined thousands of colleagues across England and Wales, walking out at 7am. Their union says it’s had “constructive” talks with the government – which described the action as unlawful. Attacks on guards at Gartree have doubled […]

Signs are to be put up on the A14 bridge at Rothwell in a bid to stop suicides. Highways England will install them following mass outcry after so-called ‘notes of hope’ placed on the railings there by a group of friends were removed, when they were deemed a distraction to drivers. Four signs – which […]

The organiser of Charity Truck Pull fundraising events held in Market Harborough and Medbourne has been jailed for two and a half years for pocketing most of the money raised. A judge said although Gary Gardner didn’t set out to defraud, not a single penny of the £26,000 collected went to the young son of […]

The organiser of Charity Truck Pull Events held in Market Harborough and Medbourne will be sentenced tomorrow, after pocketing most of the money raised. Gary Gardner put them on between 2013 and 2015, with the main benefactor supposedly the Trust Fund set-up for the young son of murder soldier Lee Rigby. Not a penny of […]

Members of the public have disarmed a man with a knife near the Primary School in South Kilworth. A number of Police officers – some armed – were called to Walcote Road at around 9am, after receiving reports villagers had challenged and taken the weapon off him. A 20-year-old man was arrested near-by on suspicion […]