Author: HFM News

Market Harborough Building Society has announced strong financial results for the past year. Their total assets grew to over £600m and they achieved record levels of new mortgage lending of £182m. The strong year has allowed the society to launch its ‘Thrive Agenda,’ which has seen major support in the community, including investing £2m in […]

Grants totalling £8,000 have been handed to community groups across Harborough ahead of the King’s Coronation. Each have been given up to £500 to help towards projects to encourage better health and well-being, or costs of organising events which will bring people together to mark the historic occasion next month. A further £12,000 remains available […]

A Market Harborough coffee shop is to host a big fundraising event later this month. The family fun day at Starbucks on Saturday April 22nd will raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support and to help improve accommodation for relatives at Leicester’s Hospitals. There will be loads going on in the shop and collections will also […]

The list of candidates for next month’s local elections across Harborough has been published today. 125 candidates will contest seats in 19 wards across the district, with 34 councillor positions up for grabs. The Conservative party has put forward 31, Liberal Democrats have 34, the Green Party has 30, and Labour has 25. Reform UK […]

Major maintenance work to the outside of Market Harborough’s historic Symington Building is being delayed after bats took up residence in its tower. The discovery means Harborough District Council will now have to obtain a licence and put measures in place to safe-guard the brown long-eared bats, a protected species, before any work can begin. […]

It is hoped a national food retailer will open a convenience store on a new housing estate in Market Harborough. Plans to build the first shops on the Airfield Farm site, off Leicester Road were approved by councillors last night. Two retail units will form part of the ‘local centre’ and Harborough District Council’s planning […]

A power cut has left over 90 properties in Market Harborough with no electricity. National Grid says homes and businesses in the Welland Park Road and Springfield Street areas are affected, as well as the town centre end of Northampton Road. Drivers are being urged to take extra care, as the outage means traffic lights […]

Incidents of fly-tipping across Harborough have dropped for a fourth year running. There were 317 reported in the past 12 months, compared with 322 the previous year. The fall bucks the national trend, with many other areas of the country seeing large increases in illegal dumping, and is being linked to the District Council’s on-going […]

An appeal for information has been launched after graffiti was daubed inside the newly refurbished toilets in Market Harborough’s Welland Park. The criminal damage took place sometime yesterday (Monday) in the men’s area of the block. Harborough District Council, which re-opened the facilities last month after a major re-vamp, says the graffiti has now been […]

Three complete sets of Beatles autographs have sold at auction in Market Harborough for £6,400. One set, written on the back of a Police charge sheet fetched £3,400 – nearly four times the estimate. The signatures were collected by the Market Harborough-based seller’s father, who was a police chief constable’s driver and took the band […]