RUGBY World Cup-winning hero Martin Johnson will open a big Olympics-inspired sports day at Harborough’s Welland Park.

AWARENESS about breast cancer in young people was raised during a talk given to students at Lutterworth College.

THE OWNERS of Magna Park are being invited to a public meeting to address any concerns over plans for a new HGV depot at the site.

OUR first entry in the Harborough Mail Great Garden Awards this year is from Paula Elmer in the Worst Garden category.

THE Mail is inviting people to enter our Great Garden Awards contest for 2012.

IT MAY have happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but Star Wars has come to Harborough after street-signs inspired by the blockbuster were put up around town.

DARTH Vader has promised there will be ‘no escape’ for the people behind Harborough’s Star Wars-inspired makeover.

A MAN who made an anonymous phonecall to police from a public phonebox in Wigston is being urged to help them solve the mystery over a missing woman.

A MAN was given a caution by police after he was caught attempting to steal £80-worth of goods from a Harborough supermarket.

A BUMPER crop of events being held around a town’s Church Square is leading to it being named ‘the cultural quarter’.

A £500 donation will help support diabetes education courses run at Market Harborough Medical Centre.

A BUS service which travels through a number of Lutterworth-area villages looks set to be axed in favour of a new ‘demand response’ vehicle.

PEOPLE are being asked their views about plans to remove pews in part of Harborough’s parish church, extend underfloor heating and put in new seating.

MAIL readers have been having their say over the cancellation of this year’s Arts Fresco event in Harborough.

HOSPITAL patients from Lutterworth cannot be guaranteed a place to recover from operations at the town’s Feilding Palmer Hospital despite pressure from the town council – the NHS has said.

THE CHAIRMAN of the group behind exciting plans to transform a former bowls club into a youth café has criticised Harborough District Council for delays to the project.

A BIZARRE wrangle over a patch of grass in a Harborough street has raised its ugly head again - four years after residents thought the problem had been resolved.

A CHEST waxing for charity formed part of the entertainment at a Lutterworth pub’s fundraising music festival on Saturday.

A BOWLING club is celebrating a century of existence in style.

A MOCK delivery is to take place at a wind farm site near Lutterworth to see how narrow country roads will cope with dozens of large lorries in the coming months.