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A two-year project that’s seen the installation of hundreds of swift nesting boxes in buildings across Leicestershire has been hailed a huge success. In 2023, Leicestershire County Council was awarded a grant from Natural England’s Species Recovery Programme Scheme to help to boost the numbers of the threatened birds. The Swift Action for Swifts project […]
Visitors to a popular Market Harborough park now have a new recreational facility to use – thanks to Harborough Welland u3a and funding from the District Council. Brand new Petanque pitches have been built near the café in Welland Park – which anyone can use, free of charge. Around a dozen u3a Petanque players attended […]
A brand new all-weather route for walkers, cyclists and wheelchair users between Braybrooke and Market Harborough officially opens today. The idea of the ‘Griffin Trail’ came out of the 2022 Braybrooke Neighbourhood Plan, which identified an overwhelming demand from villagers for safer and more scenic pedestrian access to the town than along the busy main […]
Harborough District Council has revealed it’s still trying to track down a significant amount of public money which has remained unaccounted for, for over five years. In a recent update to the Cabinet, Cllr Mark Graves, HDC’s Portfolio Holder for Finance, called on Harborough District Leisure Trust to share with him, residents and the Council […]
A sports facility in Desborough is set to receive Government and Council ‘decarbonisation’ cash if a proposed environmentally-friendly project gets the go-ahead this week. Desborough Leisure Centre is one of three sites earmarked for funds by North Northamptonshire Council – which would see fossil fuel boilers replaced by air source heat pumps, new solar panels, […]
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