Author: HFM News

A warning has been issued after two schoolgirls were approached by a couple who asked to take photos of them. It happened yesterday morning, as the year seven pupils were walking to Welland Park Academy along Welland Park Road, near the Farndon Road roundabout. The girls declined but it is believed the man and woman […]

Work has begun today to restore a fire-damaged pub in Lutterworth to its former glory. Harborough District Council this week approved plans to rebuild The Shambles, after the 16th-century building was badly damaged when a blaze tore through the thatched roof in February. The pub on Bell Street has been covered over ever since the […]

A Market Harborough school is set to install hundreds of solar panels. Robert Smyth Academy has unveiled plans to put up 420 panels on the flat and pitched roofs of its buildings on Burnmill Road. The move is part of wider plans to make the school site more energy-efficient and the school has approached Harborough […]

A collection of football memorabilia amassed by a legendary Leicester City player has sold at auction in Market Harborough today for over £5,000. Dating back almost half a century, it belonged to full-back David ‘Dai’ Owen Jones and included a gold champions medal. Known as the ‘smiling footballer’, the Welsh international’s collection went under the […]

On World Mental Health Day a Market Harborough charity is urging people to check-in on friends and family. HAB Anti-bullying and Mental Health fund specialist counselling for people of all ages and has just been awarded National Lottery funding of over £9,500 to help enable its vital work to continue. Demand for the charity’s help […]

The owner of a Market Harborough tanning salon has won his fight to keep a picture of a woman sunbathing on the front of his shop. James Cole was ordered to remove the image of the bikini-clad lady on a beach from Malibu Tanning Lounge on Coventry Road last year, after complaints it was ‘offensive’. […]

A drunk driver who crashed head-on into another car near Market Harborough has been banned from driving and fined. Geoff Warren was over twice the legal drink-drive limit when breathalysed by Police at the scene of the collision on the B6047 Harborough Road on September 17th. Two people in the other car needed hospital treatment […]

Lights in Market Harborough town centre will shine blue and white tonight to show solidarity with the people of Israel. Harborough District Council will switch lights around the Symington Building and The Square. to the colours of the country’s flag. Lights on our council building and on The Square in Market #Harborough will be lit […]

Network Rail has apologised after a road between Fleckney and Wigston was closed to traffic by mistake. Barriers were put across Newton Lane yesterday morning together with a ‘road closed’ sign and drivers were forced to turn around, as there were no signs warning the road was shut further up the road. The road is […]

A Harborough music charity is one of just four groups in the UK selected for a project aimed at boosting inclusion. Great Bowden Recital Trust will be part of the 18-month INCLUDE programme, allowing it to explore ways to get people from a more diverse demographic involved. Funded by Arts Council England, it will include […]