Author: HFM News

Passengers have been getting a first glimpse of new state-of-the-art trains which will serve Market Harborough from later this year. The £400m Aurora intercity fleet is set to be introduced by East Midlands Railway in the autumn. Test-runs and staff training aboard the new fleet is underway and eagle-eyed rail users from Market Harborough spotted […]

The wet weather failed to dampen spirits as thousands of people descended on Hallaton for the Easter Monday Bottle Kicking event yesterday. The traditional rugby-style contest, which dates back 2,000 years, was played out in fields between Hallaton and Medbourne, with teams from both villages battling it out to get barrels filled with beer back […]

Floral tributes have been placed outside Welland Park Academy as people continue to pay their respects to a Market Harborough couple who died in a cable car crash in Italy. Elaine Winn worked as the school’s business manager and was tragically killed alongside her husband Graeme, while on holiday near Naples last Thursday. The couple, […]

Tributes have been paid to a couple from Market Harborough who died in a cable car crash while on holiday in Italy. Elaine Winn, 58, who worked as Business Manager at Welland Park Academy, tragically died alongside her husband Graeme, 65, near Naples on Thursday. Numerous tributes have been paid to the couple on Facebook […]

A British couple who died in a cable car crash in Italy were from Market Harborough. 65-year-old Graeme Winn and his wife Elaine, who was 58, were among four people killed in the tragedy near Naples on Thursday. Officials say the incident happened after a cable snapped at the top of a near-two mile route […]

One of the UK’s oldest continued customs returns to a village near Market Harborough on Easter Monday. The Hallaton Bottle Kicking dates back 2,000 years and is set to once again attract thousands of visitors. The rugby-style contest will see villagers from Hallaton take-on residents from neighbouring Medbourne, to wrestle barrels filled with beer over […]

A reward of £7,500 is being offered for information leading to the arrest of man wanted in connection with burglaries across Harborough and elsewhere. Daniel Casey from Leicester has been on the run for several months and charity Crimestoppers has put up the money in a bid to locate him. The 33-year-old, who has links […]

Harborough District Council is seeking to allay fears sports clubs could lose access to the sports hall at Harborough Leisure Centre. The authority has responded to rumours that the space maybe ‘lost’ and put to another use. Cat Hartley, Director of Communities and Wellbeing said: “We have been made aware that rumours have been circulating […]

Residents in Desborough awoke to unexpected visitors this morning – a herd of around 20 cows roaming round their streets! Police were called to the Matlock Way estate just after 6am after the cattle had escaped from a near-by field. The cows enjoyed time grazing in gardens while officers tracked down their owner. A spokesperson […]

A Market Harborough charity supporting families with young children needs more men to join its dedicated team of volunteers. Home-Start South Leicestershire provides vital help to families facing difficulties as new parents, or with complex situations in their lives ranging from financial crises, isolation and loneliness, managing mental or physical ill health and living with […]