Author: HFM News

Residents in the Great Glen area can vote today to elect a new councillor to represent them on Harborough District Council. A by-election is taking place in the Glen Ward with polling stations are open until 10pm at Burton Overy Village Hall, St Cuthberts Community Hall and St Cuthberts School in Great Glen, Newton Harcourt Reading […]

BBC Radio One presenter Jamie Laing has set-off from Market Harborough on the third day of a big fundraising challenge. The former Made In Chelsea star is running five ultra marathons in five days – a total of 150 miles – and has already raised over £100,000 for Comic Relief. Crowds gathered outside the Three […]

Santander is to close its bank in Market Harborough. The branch on the High Street will shut on July 1st because an increasing number of customers are using mobile and internet banking instead of visiting in-person. It is one of 95 branches being closed by the bank nationwide, putting around 750 jobs at risk. Santander […]

An alert has been issued after rogue traders targeted an elderly resident in Great Bowden this morning. Two men arrived unannounced in a van at around 10am and said roofing repairs needed to be carried out on the house. One of the men then went up a ladder and started to pull cement from the […]

Plans have been revealed for a new housing estate of up to 90 homes on the edge of Lubenham. Developer Barratt David Wilson Homes wants to build it on over ten acres of fields off Laughton Road. The mix of housing is yet to be confirmed, but affordable homes will be included and a community […]

Police are appealing for information after an attempted burglary in Desborough in the early hours of today. It happened at a house in Ironwood Avenue on the Grange estate between 3.30am and 4.15am when someone tried to force open patio doors. Officers are keen to hear from anyone who saw suspicious people or vehicles in […]

Streetlights in Market Harborough town centre will be upgraded later this year. It follows concerns about areas being left dark – including around The Square – because several of the existing ageing wall-mounted lights have not been working for over a year. Leicestershire County Council, which previously admitted it did not have the money to […]

Litter Wombles have alerted enviro-crime officers after finding several dumped cardboard boxes with names and addresses on during a litter-pick near Market Harborough. The empty boxes were found amongst other rubbish by volunteers during a big clean-up along the A6 bypass on Sunday and the group have reported the matter to Harborough District Council. A […]

Market Harborough-based Joules is to open a new flagship store in the Lloyds Bank building in the town centre. The fashion retailer will convert the premises at the corner of Church Square when the branch closes later this month and then relocate there from its current long-standing shop on the High Street. A spokesperson for […]

Volunteer litter pickers in and around Market Harborough have helped Leicestershire Little Wombles collect 200,000 bags of rubbish. The milestone has been reached as the group marks its sixth anniversary and if placed next to each other the bags would stretch 41 miles, the distance from Market Harborough to Leicester and back again. A dedicated […]