Author: HFM News

A fierce thunderstorm brought giant hail stones and led to flash flooding on roads in Market Harborough. It lasted for around 30 minutes from just before 5pm yesterday, bringing an abrupt end to glorious sunshine. Police were called after vehicles got stranded in deep water on Northampton Road, near the Welland Park Road junction and […]

Farms across Leicestershire and Northamptonshire are taking part in this weekend’s Open Farm Sunday. The annual event gives the public the chance to see what farmers do and why – explaining how they grow food and care for livestock and the environment. Farms in Loddington, in the north of the Harborough district and in Brixworth […]

A driver has admitted failing to stop for Police before crashing a pick-up truck into a tree in Desborough. Lee Hopkins, 20, fled on foot but was arrested a short time later, after being located by a Police dog. The crash happened at the junction of Stoke Albany Road and Brampton Wood Lane late on […]

Final plans are being put in place ahead of Market Harborough Carnival tomorrow. 500 people will kick the day off taking part in the 10k Carnival Run from 10am and the big parade of over 20 floats will  take to the streets from 11am. From midday, Symington’s Recreation Ground will be the place to be, […]

Nearly a year after a Market Harborough furniture store closed, an investigation by Trading Standards is  continuing. Furniture Loft collapsed with debts of over 2.7m and an investigation was launched after complaints were made by customers who did not receive ordered they had paid for. Officers from the county council-run Trading Standards service later seized […]

A weekend heat-health alert has been issued as temperatures across Harborough are set to reach nearly 30C. The region is set to be hotter than Marbella, Ibiza and Tenerife as a plume of warm air moves in from the south. The amber alert, in place until Monday, indicates high temperatures could affect all ages and […]

Market Harborough author Tamsin Winter has launched her latest fiction book which centres on the impact of social media on teenagers. Aimed at 11 to 14-year-olds, ‘Bad Influence’ follows teenager Amelia Bright who succumbs to the pressures of being popular when she is talked into sending a semi-naked photograph to a boy she likes, which […]

A teenage boy has been injured in a crash in Market Harborough. He was riding a scooter which was involved in collision with a car on Hammond Way, at the junction with Sherrard Road, just before 3.30pm. Police and East Midlands Ambulance Service attended the scene. A spokesperson for Leicestershire Police told HFM the boy […]

North Northamptonshire Council is to sell off a site in Desborough which has stood derelict for over 20 years. The authority’s Executive has declared the former Lawrence’s shoe factory site as ‘surplus’ and it will now be put up for sale. The council inherited the site off Harborough Road from the former Kettering Borough Council, […]

Staff at BBC Radio Leicester are striking over cuts to local radio services. The 48-hour walkout by members of the National Union of Journalists started yesterday, with similar action taking place up and down the country. The cuts will see more regional programming, with the NUJ saying it will result in less coverage of important […]