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Armed Police were called out this morning after members of the public reported seeing a man carrying a knife in the street in Lutterworth. A number of officers were called to the Linden Drive area just after 7am and stopped a man near-by, although no knife was found. A search of the near-by area also […]
More new houses could go up in Great Bowden – on fields off Leicester Lane. Developers want to build up to 46 homes on land adjacent to where permission was granted for 50 houses earlier this year. A planning application by Gladman Developments has been handed to Harborough Council, who will consider it in due […]
The plan to cut Opening hours over the weekend at the Urgent Care Centre in Market Harborough has been scrapped – although they will be reduced during the week. NHS bosses had proposed shutting the facility at the St Luke’s Treatment Centre two hours earlier on Saturdays and Sunday at 5pm, but after concerns about […]
An inquest has heard three friends who died in a crash on the A427 were not wearing seatbelts. Ciprian Merla and Gheorghe Sofitchi who were both aged 22, and Tatiana Chios, who was 40, were killed when the Peugeot 407 they were in was involved in a head-on collision with a Ford Focus, between Dingley […]
A gang of youths have throwing corn the cob at passing cars and pedestrians in Kibworth. They’ve been ripping them out of the ground from a field on Smeeton Road. Farmer James Stanbridge says there are limited supplies of the crop this year: “Those responsible have no respect for the world around them.” “It may sound […]
Harborough Council has reached a major milestone so it can have more control over development locally. New figures show the authority has achieved what’s known as a ‘five year housing supply.’ For the past few years some developers refused permission to build locally by the Council have then been granted the permission by the Government […]
A thankyou letter written by Princess Diana a month before she died will be auctioned in Market Harborough next week. It was sent to a personal protection officer, following a holiday with Princes William and Harry to St Tropez in Southern France in July 1997, where they stayed with Dodi Fayed. The Princess was attracting […]
Work is getting underway to build two retirement complexes in Market Harborough. One off Rockingham Road is going up on land adjacent to Meadowdale Primary School’s sports hall, and will include 58 apartments. The other will be built on the old Travis Perkins site on Clarence Street, where 44 sheltered-housing apartments will be created, within […]
The annual Lubenham Scarecrow festival took place over the weekend of Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th of September. There were hundreds of scarecrows scattered around the village. So much work has gone into these as always and were incredibly lifelike… On the green, there were a host of stalls and entertainment to keep visitors entertained. […]
Average cameras come into operation this week through the village of Walote on the A4304 between Market Harborough and Lutterworth. Unlike fixed cameras, they measure the speed of vehicles entering the village and then exiting – those exceeding the 30 limit will be fined. Leicestershire County Council has installed them as more drivers speed through […]
