Transport and Logistics Network
Calls have been made to install the first fixed speed cameras in Rutland[1] on a dangerous stretch of road dubbed the ‘Rutland TT’. Melton[2] and Rutland MP Alicia Kearns started a petition which aims to install average speed cameras along the B6047, w…
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A Market Harborough[1] teenager was reduced to tears after she could not take her theory test – supposedly due to an issue with her licence.
Mum Alishia Read has slammed the Leicester[2] test centre, saying her 17-year-old daughter Izabel …
Rupert Matthews on one of the roads where cars often speed
She explained residents were worried about speeding in Main Road and Station Road in Broughton Astley. Traffic surveys were carried out and new mobile speed camera sites identified to address…
A distiller based in Market Harborough[1] has been placed in administration, putting more than 50 jobs at risk. Union Distillers, which produces the Two Birds range of spirits sold in supermarkets across the UK, was placed in administration on Friday, …
Pledges to refurbish two popular leisure centres and install more CCTV in the district have been made by the Harborough Conservative Party in the run up to this year’s local elections. Voters will take to the polls on Thursday, May 4, to choose which p…
HSBC has closed its branch in Market Harborough, leaving customers to travel six miles if they want to go to the bank. Most major banking companies have been shutting branches at a rate of knots since the Covid-19 pandemic, saying customers simply don’…
Leicestershire country casuals brand Joules is planning redundancies at its head office under plans to merge more of its operations with new joint owner Next. Next, which helped buy Joules out of administration last December[1], said the cuts would be …
Barclays has announced the closure of two additional Sussex branches this summer. Branches in East Grinstead and Heathfield have been outlined for closure in July.
The bank had previously announced the closure of 132 branches across the country, with s…