Author: HFM News

Police say no-one was seriously injured after a car crashed into a tree on the A47 in Thurnby this morning. Emergency services, including Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service and East Midlands Ambulance Service, were called to Uppingham Road at 9.45am. Just one vehicle was involved in the collision near the Station Road junction and a […]

Drivers are being warned a section of Northampton Road in Market Harborough will be closed overnight on Thursday and Friday this week. The stretch between Springfield Street and St Mary’s Road/The Square will be shut between 8pm and 6am, to allow Leicestershire County Council to carry out carriageway patching works. Diversions will be signposted.

A charity has stepped in to help after thieves stole 12 gazebos and tables belonging to Desborough Carnival Committee. The equipment, worth around £2,000, was taken when a lock-up on Brampton Wood Lane was broken into between April 16th and 23rd. The town’s Welfare Committee has provided a grant of £600 towards replacements. A post […]

The plan to build a new primary school in Market Harborough has moved forward. Leicestershire County Council has submitted a planning application for the £3m development on the Airfield Farm housing estate, off Leicester Road. If given the go-ahead, the 210-place school would be built on land on land between Airfield Road and Owen Way […]

Nationwide Building Society is to reduce the opening hours at its branch in Market Harborough from six to four days a week. The base on the High Street will be closed on Mondays and Wednesdays from the end of July. The news comes after Barclays announced it is shutting its branch in the town centre in […]

A retiring Market Harborough charity worker is being praised for helping thousands of people get around. Sandy Handley has run the transport scheme at VASL for the past 29 years and during that time has arranged around 100,000 journeys, so members of the community could get to hospital, health and social appointments, via a team […]

A Market Harborough dance school is desperately searching for a new venue for its annual show after the announcement the Lighthouse Theatre in Kettering is to close. Almost 300 youngsters who are members of The Core Dance Company were due to perform there on July 1st and 2nd, with nearly all tickets already sold. The […]

A Desborough man who worked tirelessly to help NHS and care workers at the start of the pandemic has been been invited to the King’s Coronation. Aaron Shrive will be one of just 2,000 guests at the historic event at Westminster Abbey in London next Saturday. Aaron was recognised last year for producing thousands of […]

A plan developers say would allow two businesses in Market Harborough to expand has been thrown out on appeal. They wanted to create a new out-of-town base for Harborough Hire off Leicester Road, which Three Manors Developments Ltd said would have allowed Travis Perkins to extend its operations onto the firm’s current site at the […]

It has been announced a leisure complex and theatre in Kettering is to close. The Kettering Conference Centre, which includes the Lighthouse Theatre, will shut at the end of May. The news is a particular blow for groups from the Harborough area who use the theatre to perform and had shows scheduled for later this […]