I shall watch with eager anticipation.

One such rumour is at http://liberalengland.blogspot.com

Scaffolding work begins on the new Pizza Express

We wish them all the best in their conquest of Google, the site looks fabulous and is going to help their marketing enormously.

All prints are available to purchase so if you’re looking for the perfect Christmas present or wedding present, maybe a beautiful shot of the wedding church, pop along to www.PixOf.co.uk and grab an amazing print.

Having done some investigation I found this retail chain www.chipsworld.co.uk which has got quite a few stores throughout the UK, however none in Leicestershire which suggests Harborough would be a good  location. The group tout themselves as ‘The UK’s Largest Independent Video Game Retailer’ which could give Blockbuster a run for their money. Competition is good.

It appears my suspicions are true. The old Trentuno is now a gaming shop called Chips

A friend and client of ours had a moment of madness whilst the snow had deeply covered the ground in Market Harborough this February and towed his son 500 yards behind his pick up truck. This may sound to most as utterly stupid and irresponsible and if you’d believe the media frenzy he should be hung, drawn and quartered. However what perturbs me is the sensationalism that inevitably follows s very small moment of stupidity.

The dad in question is not a moronic, unthinking, idiot, rather he’s a good bloke who thought he’d do as people in snow covered countries do for their kids every day and give his son a tow behind his car. Now, here is where the media go to town. Admittedly the act was done at rush hour traffic time but there were no cars on the road except those that were parked, thses were the cars that he ‘overtook’. If you’d believe the press he was weaving in and out of traffic, dragging his lad within inches of speeding wheels. The bloke went 500 yards at 8mph.

He thought the act so insignificant that he drove past the local Police station. Again the press would believe a high speed chase took place to catch him. The reality is a policeman ran out of the station and caught him on foot, that was the speed at which he was dragging his son who was wearing more protective clothing than any of the skateboarder kids who skate yards from oncoming traffic.

So, was it a stupid act? Yes most definitely but what really gets my goat is how it’s blown up out of all proportion.

UPDATE: I’m glad to see no custodial sentence was given Market Harborough man spared jail

But what does this mean for the town of Market Harborough? Well I’m guessing that this was one of the final nails in the coffin of the Threshers franchise, that and Bargain Booze and apart from that no adverse effect will be felt by other stores, maybe the supermarkets, but hey they make enough profit. Hopefully, having a store at that end of St Mary’s Road will help invigorate that area of town.

The only other worry that may arise is that if the under 18 policing policy of Majestic is lapse then there may be a few drunken minors on Symington wreck.

As I was walking by the train station this weekend I noticed the new bridge over the River Welland (above). I knew from a planning application for the Harborough Rubber development that this was part of the extension to the Millennium Mile which will run down by the new ’social’ housing development next to Lidl and finish facing the train station.

I’m glad that some socially aware development has been incorporated in the plans for this area and hope phase 2 of the Harborough Rubber development goes ahead with the listed building getting a deserved overall.

Just out of interest, is it still a Millennium Mile if it’s longer than a mile?