Author: HFM News

An inquest has ruled a talented teenage footballer from Thailand took his own life in Market Harborough. 17-year-old Duangphet Phromthep, known as Dom, died in hospital two days after being found unconscious at the Brooke House College accommodation on Northampton Road on February 12th. Professor Catherine Mason, senior coroner for Leicester City and South Leicestershire, […]

A Market Harborough man is celebrating winning a Lamborghini car worth £190,000 and £50,000 in cash after entering an on-line competition. Maintenance engineer Cory Thackstone was handed the amazing prize just weeks after his 22nd birthday and says it will completely change his life. He also won a year’s supply of pizza in one of […]

This year’s Poppy Appeal launches in Market Harborough tomorrow with the hope it will raise £25,000. The Royal British Legion’s Veteran’s Support Group is set to ride into town for the launch on The Square at 10am and will be displaying their motorbikes. Street collectors will be out too and the town’s branch of the […]

Tesco have apologised after its Express store and petrol station in Market Harborough closed for several hours yesterday. Drivers and customers were unable to fill up or use the shop on Rockingham Road until late afternoon. A Tesco spokesperson told HFM the closure was to allow for maintenance work to be carried out and added: […]

A public meeting has been called by the Harborough District’s three Members of Parliament over controversial housing plans. It will take place at Market Harborough Methodist Church next Friday – three days before councillors consider whether or not to accept some of Leicester’s unmet housing need. Neil O’Brien, Alberto Costa and Alicia Kearns say there […]

The announcement there will be free parking in Market Harborough on four Saturdays in December is being welcomed. Harborough District Council will waive charges in its town centre car parks and in Lutterworth on those days in the run-up to Christmas, to encourage people to shop in the town centre and save them money. Shoppers […]

You’re being invited to a special Halloween event in Market Harborough later to encourage you to eat pumpkins! It is taking place at The Village on St Mary’s Road from 5.30pm til 8pm and is one of a number being held nationwide, in support of environmental charity Hubbub’s Eat Your Pumpkin campaign, which aims to […]

The go-ahead has been given to convert a historic building on Northampton Road in Market Harborough into flats. Harborough District Council has granted planning permission for the work inside the grade two-listed building at the Springfield Street junction, which dates back to the 1860’s. Developers plan to convert it into five flats. The building has […]

Police have launched an operation targeting drivers who don’t pass horses safely on country lanes across Harborough. Operation Snaffle is in response to concerns from riders about the way some motorists behave when they come across them on the road. The Leicestershire force’s Rural Policing Team is heading up the action and has teamed up […]

Police say no-one was injured after a caravan being towed by a car jack-knifed and overturned on the A14 at lunchtime. It happened on the westbound carriageway between the Rothwell and Kelmarsh junctions at around 12.30pm. The led to long queues as one lane of both carriageways was closed while the caravan was recovered and  […]