Articles

Dear Editor

Between now and July, your garden, favourite park or nature reserve will be alive with fauna. These may have returned from warmer climes, emerged from hibernation, or hatched from pupae. Resident species will have become more active, ready to raise a new generation.

On the third Tuesday of every month, our café becomes a lively hub of conversation, laughter and connection as we host a friendly social group for people aged 60 and over. There’s no need to book – just turn up, grab a drink, and chat away. Hosted by volunteers from Voluntary Action South Leicestershire, the group is designed to bring people together and help reduce social isolation across Kibworth and the surrounding villages.

‘Great Athletes Day’ with a special visitor

Leicestershire Wildlife Hospital are holding a Charity Barn Dance on Saturday 2 May. It will be in the Liberal Club, 82 Bull Head Street, Wigston, LE18 1PA. With live music provided by Greenshoots Ceilidh Band from 7.30 - 11.00pm

The Hallaton Museum is getting a new permanent display for 2026. It's at Hallaton Castle, thanks to a grant from the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society’s Public Heritage Fund.

Local residents from across the district attended a pivotal Harborough District Council (HDC) meeting on Monday 16 March to hear the debate and decision on the local plan (2020 – 2041). More than 80 members of the public were at the council offices to witness the decision by the Council who voted by 17 votes to 15, with one abstention, to submit its Local Plan for examination, a decision that exposes deep divisions over a strategy affecting many thousands of residents and the future shape of the district.

Local author, Adrienne Vaughan’s latest novel ‘Mystery of the Midnight Madonna', has just been nominated for an award by the prestigious Historical Novel Society.

Our March speaker, Penny Morris from Gildings Auctioneers, spoke about provenance and its part in authenticating and valuing items. Her first example was a landscape by artist A.J. Munnings, which was unusual because he famously painted horses. Given to a friend of his, a female Master of the Hunt in the 1930s (again unusual). It sold for £104,000 because of its history.

This item was received after the last issue however the event will take place before the next issue