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Plans to carry on expanding a large commercial and retail area on the outskirts of Market Harborough have been approved. The application for eleven business units and two drive-thru food and drink units at Airfield Business Park on the B6047 was rubber stamped by Leicestershire County Council’s Development control and regulatory board on Thursday (11th […]
A talented young diver from Market Harborough is competing in the finals of a top national competition this weekend. Nine-year-old Sebastian Karanjit won gold after impressing judges in two qualifying contests in Sheffield and Manchester in May and is now up against the very best – in the ‘England Diving National Skills Final’ in Southend. […]
A Market Harborough woman has decided to do something well out of her ‘comfort zone’ for charity – a tandem skydive! Sally Anderson (pictured) is now seeking sponsorship via JustGiving – hoping to raise at least 500 pounds for the Motor Neurone Disease Association before making her jump at Sibson Aerodrome on the 18th of […]
Plans to build two new ‘drive thrus’ on the outskirts of Market Harborough are being recommended for the go-ahead this week. If approved, Costa Coffee will open in one of the units, while a search continues to find an occupier for the other. The development is part of a proposed 16-million pound extension to Airfield […]
The ringleader of a drug-dealing gang who used drones to drop contraband into Gartree Prison is now behind bars. Before sentencing on Monday (8th July), the court heard how Lucy Adcock had organised 22 drops a month across six UK gaols, including Market Harborough, until she was identified and apprehended by Welsh Police. The 47-year-old […]
A business support worker from a Market Harborough-based charity is literally ‘hot-footing’ it over to Belvoir Castle for its latest fundraiser! Wendy Savill from Voluntary Action South Leicestershire (VASL) will be walking barefoot over hot coals at the aptly named ‘Burning Woman Festival’ on Saturday the 20th of July. She’s promising not to get ‘cold […]
A sports facility in Desborough is set to receive Government and Council ‘decarbonisation’ cash if a proposed environmentally-friendly project gets the go-ahead this week. Desborough Leisure Centre is one of three sites earmarked for funds by North Northamptonshire Council – which would see fossil fuel boilers replaced by air source heat pumps, new solar panels, […]
Harborough’s MP is urging the newly-elected Labour Government to scrap plans for a new prison at Gartree. Neil O’Brien – who’s among just 121 Conservative candidates to win their seats in last Thursday’s General Election – says it’s not too late to move the gaol to a more suitable location. Mr O’Brien told HFM he’s […]
A brother and sister from Market Harborough have raised just shy of seven hundred pounds after riding from John O’Groats to Land’s End … in their living room! Eight year old Theo and nine-year-old Milly Dunmore covered the distance of more than 1,100 miles on an exercise bike over a four week period. The money […]
The first children who’ll be taught at a new school in Market Harborough have been to visit the site. There’ll be 17 youngsters in the foundation class when Wellington Place Primary School opens on the Airfield Farm estate at the end of next month. It’s the town’s first new school in over 20 years and […]
