Author: HFM News

A carpentry contractor has been fined £8,000 after a Rothwell man died when he was struck by falling material on a new homes site. Niall McCormack, 22, suffered a fatal head injury while working installing roof trusses at the site in Cambridgeshire in October 2019. Both the truss packs and party wall spandrel panel had […]

Information about support available for families of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities will be available at a special event in Market Harborough on Monday. The Local Offer Roadshow is being organised by Leicestershire County Council and will see more than 20 organisations which support SEND children and their families expected […]

A new programme of guided walks across the Harborough District has been launched. Over 15 are planned between now and December, including some dedicated to Market Harborough’s role in the historic Battle of Naseby. Blue-badge tourist guide James Carpenter has put the programme together with support from the district council: A leaflet has been produced […]

Armed police officers were deployed in Great Glen after reports a man was seen with a gun travelling in a van. They were sent to the area of Devana Way yesterday afternoon and a helicopter from the National Police Air Service was also scrambled to village. The van was located and a man arrested, however […]

National Grid has apologised after some villagers in Kibworth were left without electricity for over six hours yesterday. A fault at a substation in Hillcrest Avenue and with an underground cable on Leicester Road caused the outage just after 2.30pm, which initially affected over 1,400 properties and forced some businesses to close. A generator had […]

A power cut is affecting Market Harborough town centre. Over 30 properties in and around the High Street are without electricity following the outage just before 5.30pm. National Grid say a ‘low voltage network fault’ has caused the issue and it hopes to restore supplies by 8.30pm.

A power cut is affecting the Kibworth area. The outage at just after 2.30pm initially left over 1,400 properties without electricity, although supplies have since been restored to some. Over 500 homes and businesses remain without power and National Grid is bringing in a generator to restore supplies by 8.30pm. A spokesperson for National Grid […]

People turned out to watch a historic steam train pass Market Harborough today. The Royal Scot was pulling a support coach as it sped through the station just after 12.30pm, en-route to London. Train enthusiasts and others were on the platform to watch, including Steve Jones from Harborough Rail Users group. He told HFM it […]

Police are appealing for witnesses after a man suffered a head injury in a supermarket car park in Lutterworth. Officers say he was involved in a confrontation with another man outside Aldi on Rugby Road, during which it was reported he was pushed and fell over. The incident happened between 8.30am and 9.30am last Wednesday, […]

Market Harborough’s In Bloom volunteers are getting set to put over 2,500 plants into displays across the town. The dedicated team have already been busy tending areas in the town centre, the rose garden in Welland Park and preparing new displays at the railway station. Market Harborough has once again been entered into the East […]