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Leicestershire County Council unveiled its draft budget for the next four years on Wednesday, December 11.

Leicestershire residents to be hit by maximum council tax rise

Harborough Town Football Club is to get a new stand

Plans approved for Harborough Town Football Club's new stand

Annie Valentine is sick of people putting rubbish in the recycling bins.

'It grinds me down...it's not low-level crime when you live with it'

Objectors said the plans would not be in keeping with the existing village.

Appeal lodged over 'harmful' 48-home plan in Harborough village rejected

The call-in was discussed on Thursday.

Plea for community grant allocation rethink rejected during scrutiny meeting

Gary Hough, 62, looks up to the skies outside his home surrounded in seagull

'Horrified' residents invaded by 'apocalyptic' swarm of seagulls

Signs will encourage people to chat to those sitting alone.

Plans considered to transform former litter hot-spot into ‘Friendship Park’

Coun Karen Bruce claimed that a Pop Tart was to blame for a dramatic toaster fire that nearly torched her kitchen.

I put a Pop Tart in toaster - my kitchen almost went up in flames

Philip Waller, 65, returned from a shopping trip last week to find that a broadband firm had erected the pole outside his house in Barnsley, South Yorks. Lee McLean/SWNS

Watch: Broadband pole was put outside my home but I had it taken down

1000s of households to get direct payment worth £125 - how to apply

More large houses are to be built on a 150-home development in the Harborough district.

Decision on plan for more large properties at huge development

More large houses are to be built on a 150-home development in the Harborough district.

Tess Rushin

Michael Perkins is fighting for right to park on his own drive in Warndon, Worcester

Watch: Council ban owner of 'eyesore' motorhome from parking on drive

Harborough District Council approved budget proposals including a freeze to its share of the council tax.

Councillor debate leads to council tax, green bin and parking charge freeze

Leicestershire residents will see the portion of tax they pay to the county council go up by the highest possible amount in April.

Highest possible council tax rise for residents in 'toughest ever budget'

Market Harborough's tip

Harborough's tip set to be saved from closure

Symington Building

Decision on local plan and Leicester's unmet housing need set to be deferred

Harborough District Council offices

Harborough MP calls for delay to council crunch vote over rulebook change

Cllr Glynis Campbell Sinclair was spotted cleaning her windows while on camera during a meeting of Highland Council's Inverness Area Committee Picture: Highland Council / SWNS

Councillor cleans her home's windows during live-streamed meeting

The additional 20 homes will bring the total in this part of the development to 489 homes – the wider plan for the site will see more than 900 homes built there

Additional homes approved for Market Harborough’s Airfield Farm development

Market Harborough tip

Harborough district councillors hit out at plans to close local tip

Goldfish in transparent plastic bag

RSPCA praises Harborough District Council for banning winning pets as prizes

Plans have been given the go-ahead

Holiday lodges to built on Lutterworth farm

Another huge logistics hub looks set to be added to Lutterworth’s Magna Park as part of a wider plan to expand the site.

Lutterworth's Magna Park set to expand under new logistics hub plan

Important deadlines to be aware of to vote in May elections

Polling station

Everything you need to know about registering to vote in May elections

The planning application looks set to be approved

Plans to build homes, shops and apartments in Harborough set to be approved

Nicola Bulley went missing on January 27

Nicola Bulley: Councillors remove contact details over harassment

Protection orders have been extended

Orders to tackle irresponsible dog owners in Harborough district extended

The dog control order was put in place in 2016.

Laura Kearns

Jill Scott celebrates after England's UEFA Women's Euro 2022 final victory over Germany

Jill Scott to be awarded freedom of the city of Sunderland

The meeting was set to be held at the Symington building

Harborough councillors hit out at lack of meetings after one is cancelled by the...

Protest banner outside Gartree Prison. PICTURE: ANDREW CARPENTER

Campaigners fighting plans for 'super jail' near Harborough urge new Justice Sec...

Neil O'Brien MP with the banner near Gartree prison. PICTURE: ANDREW CARPENTER

Decision on controversial prison will not be made until next spring

The site of the proposed super jail

MP lodges formal objection to £300million super prison near Harborough

The site of the proposed £300million super prison

Deputy prime minister turns down invitation to visit site of proposed £300millio...

An image of the proposed new care home in Kibworth which has been turned down.

Plans rejected for new care home in Kibworth

The council paid £920,000 of taxpayers’ cash for a three-bedroom bungalow and its land to help seal the new Naseby Square housing complex on the town’s Southern estate.

‘Secret’ report into controversial Harborough housing scheme should be made avai...

Protesters campaign against the Naseby Square plans

Controversial £1.4m scheme to redevelop elderly people’s housing complex in Harb...

Plans for a proposed truckstop off the A5 near Magna Park have been knocked back because of the amount of harm it would cause to the environment and the impact it would have on the surrounding area.

Plans for 300-space truckstop near Magna Park have been knocked back

Leicestershire County Council

Leicestershire has a 'moral duty' to help Ukrainian refugees, say senior county ...

Harborough District Council is throwing its weight behind the beleaguered people of Ukraine after the invasion by Russian military forces.

Harborough District Council throws its weight behind the people of Ukraine

People in Harborough have still got time to get involved in and comment on plans to support local communities as we begin to emerge from the Covid pandemic.

People in Harborough have still got time to get involved on plans to support loc...

The site of the proposed housing scheme.

Councillors call for council report into under-fire Harborough housing scheme to...

The site of the proposed 'superjail'

Fourth village joins the battle to stop a new £300 million 'superjail' being bui...

New safety schemes to help cut speeding in Harborough and across Leicestershire are to be urgently drafted in by the county council.

Safety schemes to help cut speeding in Harborough and across Leicestershire will...

Where the new prison could be built.

Councillors call on people to back the growing fight to stop new £300 million 's...

"This whole corner of Harborough district will be totally overwhelmed," said one parish council chairman

Red Williams

Harborough District Council's headquarters.

Harborough council vows to pull out all the stops to combat climate change over ...

Harborough council has banked almost £5 million by selling a former allotment site in Lutterworth.

Council sells former allotment site in Lutterworth for £5 million

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Market Harborough councillors fighting 'losing battle' to save town centre bank ...

The overgrown Lawrence site off Harborough Road has been empty since the 1990s and North Northamptonshire Council (NNC) have outlined plans to turn it into up to 43 social homes in a potential £9.5m scheme.

Fresh calls to contact retail chains over 'jungle' Desborough factory site

Councillors are to meet bank chiefs in a bid to keep the Halifax open in Market Harborough.

Councillors will meet with bank chiefs in a bid to keep the Halifax open in Harb...

Councillors are aiming to shake up bus services in Leicestershire – and you can have your say.

Councillors aim to shake up bus services in Leicestershire – here's how you can ...

Councillors are expected to get behind the scheme to build 350 homes on a 36-acre parcel of land off Eady Drive, sitting between Northampton Road and Brampton Valley Way.

Huge new housing estate in Harborough poised to get the go-ahead

Scores of homes are set to be built on a former allotment site in Lutterworth – which will also lead to hundreds of thousands of pounds going into the community.

Scores of homes look set to be built on former allotment site in Lutterworth - b...

Seven wooden chalets and four camping pods will be brought in if an ambitious scheme to turn the sprawling old 60-acre Dunton Quarry near Lutterworth gets the go-ahead.

New holiday, riding and leisure centre could be set up at a disused quarry in th...

Harborough District Council's headquarters.

Harborough council set to become one of the first local authorities in the count...

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