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Lesley Croft, John Bush and Sarah Hill of Market Harborough Lions Club get ready for the Christmas Card delivery service.

Harborough Lions set to spread Christmas cheer by delivering Christmas cards

Volunteers are needed to log important trees

Volunteers sought to record important trees in Harborough district

The Christmas Gala will be held in Desborough

Desborough Christmas Gala Night and light switch on to be held this week

A St John Ambulance volunteer at a fireworks display

Remember, remember first aid in November

Britain in Bloom judges with Chairman Cllr Barbara Johnson and Harborough in Bloom volunteers at Welland Park rose garden

Market Harborough scoops gold in prestigious Britain in Bloom competition

The Jubilee food bank is an independent charity

Market Harborough food bank to hold event raising awareness of its services

Market Harborough in Bloom

Harborough in Bloom volunteers 'thrilled' to have scooped gold

Market Harborough Fixers

Market Harborough Fixers receive donation to continue sustainable work

Loch Ness Monster 2023: Volunteers wanted for biggest ‘monster hunt’ in 50 years - how to apply

Volunteers wanted for biggest Loch Ness Monster hunt in 50 years

Louis the Jack Russell with his owner after being rescued

Dog rescued after falling down one of UK’s biggest waterfalls

PD Arnie has graduated as a police dog despite harsh conditions in his early life

Puppy graduates as police dog after being found during raid

Arnie celebrated becoming a police dog in half the time due to illness

Metropolitan Police officers march along The Mall in London as they head to their positions for of the coronation processions of King Charles III and Queen Camilla.

Coronation: Street safety volunteers arrested over rape alarm concerns

Sally Field pictured with the late Paul O’Grady

Britain's oldest dog walker crowned coronation champion by RSPCA

The cast for the highly anticipated Hunger Games prequel film The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes has been revealed. (Credit: Getty Images)

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - full cast

Market Harborough Carnival

Volunteers needed for Market Harborough Carnival

Thousands of volunteers are needed to offer their helping hands over the course of King Charles III’s coronation celebrations - Credit: Getty Images

King Charles III coronation looking for thousands of volunteers

The NHS has re-launched its Check in and Chat service for isolated patients

NHS re-launches volunteer service for lonely and isolated patients

Tree planting this Saturday in Lubenham. It's fun for all ages and makes space for wildlife.

Can you spare the time this weekend to plant more trees in the Harborough area?

British National dies in Ukraine, Foreign Office confirms

British National dies in Ukraine, Foreign Office confirms

Just Stop Oil protesters guilty of conspiring to cause public nuisance at Silverstone British GP

Just Stop Oil guilty over British GP track invasion - watch protest

Positive Community Action (PCA) volunteers with the bus

Generous donation from Harborough battery manufacturer helps to get charity’s co...

Theatre volunteers with Leicester’s Lord Lieutenant, Mike Kapur.

Theatre volunteers commended for long-standing dedication

A dead 12ft whale was washed up on the banks of a British river last week.

Huge dead whale found washed up British river bank

Andrew Bagshaw, 48, and Christopher Parry, 28, have gone missing in Donetsk, Ukraine.

Two British men who volunteered in Ukraine go missing

A walrus called Thor was spotted having a rest at Scarborough Harbour ahead of the New Year

Walrus pays a visit to Scarborough harbour en route to the Arctic

Cllr Phil King with Bob Lee, volunteers and FCC Environment

Harborough litter pickers thanked for tireless work keeping district clean

Meet some of the volunteers at Trussell Trust food banks in the UK

April Jones went missing in October 2012 - her body was never found.

Mystery of April Jones as Channel 4 documentary revisits murder

The three-part true crime documentary follows the search for the five-year-old in 2012, which became one of the biggest in UK history

Lesley Croft, John Bush and Sarah Hill of Market Harborough Lions Club get ready for the Christmas Card delivery service.

Harborough Lions set to spread Christmas cheer by delivering Christmas cards

Crates of food at a Trussell Trust food bank (Photo: Trussell Trust)

Trussell Trust foodbanks need people to donate these items

Flossie, pictured here with new owner Vicki, has been named the world’s oldest cat by the Guiness Book of World Records.

UK cat Flossie officially named world’s oldest moggie

Lindsey Stockton (far right, holding framed document) with food bank colleagues

National World campaign: A day in the life of a Trussell Trust worker

Crates of food at a Trussell Trust food bank (Photo: Trussell Trust)

National World launch Trussell Trust winter fundraiser

EasyJet is bringing its Fearless Flyer course back to Gatwick Airport on Sunday, November 27, to help nervous flyers take control and overcome their fears. Picture by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA/AFP via Getty Images

Passenger dies during flight between Cyprus and London

Hygiene bank volunteers begin moving their supplies

New home for Harborough Hygiene Bank after being given two weeks notice from for...

Dolphins spotted in UK waters as pod swim happily alongside RNLI boat - watch video taken of sighting

Dolphins spotted swimming alongside RNLI rescue boat

Volunteers have been hard at work

Green fingered group from Lubenham wins gold in East Midlands in Bloom competiti...

Deputy Lord Lieutenant Richard Hurwood presents the award to John Warren, chair of trustees

Volunteers in Lutterworth praised for their ‘dedication and selflessness’

Photos of the rewinding project at St Hugh’s Church.

Volunteers help Harborough church get 'back to nature' in rewilding project

Leicestershire Wildlife Hospital has raised concerns about Avian Influenza.

Fears for Leicestershire Wildlife Hospital near Kibworth as Avian Influenza move...

Katy and Becky at Home-Start South Leicestershire

Vital £240,000 donation will help Harborough charity launch ambitious new projec...

Leading local charity VASL (Voluntary Action South Leicestershire) has staged a successful event to celebrate getting back to normal.

‘We are back’: After two years, volunteers in Harborough celebrate ‘getting back...

The RSPCA is launching a new drive to recruit dedicated frontline Wildlife Casualty Volunteers (WCVs).

Would you like to help protect sick, injured and orphaned wildlife in Harborough...

Get on your bike and get behind three crucial charities in Lutterworth next month.

Get on your bike and get behind three crucial charities in Lutterworth next mont...

An army of 60 volunteers have helped to plant about 4,500 trees at Husbands Bosworth Gliding Centre (photo by Gary Gouws at the Gliding Centre).

Volunteers help to plant about 4,500 trees at Husbands Bosworth Gliding Centre
The trees will help to form a fruit and nut long forest for wildlife at the popular local flying base near Market Harborough

Roadside verges across Harborough are receiving a biodiversity turbocharge as they are turned into desperately-needed wildflower havens.

Roadside verges across Harborough are being turned into desperately-needed wildf...

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Volunteers from The Hygiene Bank, Market Harborough.

Hygiene Bank campaigners in Harborough are calling for men’s toiletries to be do...

Children at Dunton Bassett Primary School enjoying outdoor classroom.

Volunteers turn derelict wasteland into an outdoor classroom for youngsters at a...

You could be paid £4,500 to contract Covid as part of a new research project (Photo: Shutterstock)

You could be paid £4,500 to contract Covid as part of a new research project

The new study will be conducted on over 800 participants (Photo: Jane Barlow - Pool/Getty Images)

A trial to confirm if Covid vaccine types can be mixed is underway - what we kno...

Sikh communities and a football team came together to feed stranded Dover lorry ...

The Year 9 students at Welland Park Academy’s eco-team planted 16 trees donated by the Woodland Trust.

Youngsters at Harborough school do their bit to boost the environment by plantin...

Anglican churches in Market Harborough are to re-open for private prayer from Monday July 6 onwards.

Anglican churches in Harborough are to re-open for private prayer soon

Market Harborough C of E Academy

A Harborough school is serving up a feast this week for an astonishing 120 famil...