Author: HFM News

Teachers have staged a protest in Market Harborough after walking out on strike. Members of the National Education Union from schools across the town formed a picket line outside Robert Smyth Academy, joined by some parents and children. Teachers have joined colleagues from across the East Midlands in walking out for the second time this […]

The go-ahead has been given for a new Aldi supermarket to be built in Market Harborough. Councillor approved the £5m plan at a meeting last night, paving the way for the discount retailer to re-locate from its current base on Springfield Street, to bigger premises on Rockingham Road, creating 15 additional jobs. The new store […]

A fundraising and awareness campaign has been launched by the parents of a Market Harborough boy who has been diagnosed with a rare life-limiting disease. Four-year-old Finn Nelson has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), a rare genetic condition which causes all the muscles in the body to gradually weaken, including the heart and lungs. Around 100 […]

Villagers living near Market Harborough are celebrating securing their only bus services for another year. The future of routes 59 and 60, which link places including Welford, Naseby, Clipston and Marston Trussell with Market Harborough and Northampton, were under threat as part of proposed budget cuts by West Northamptonshire Council. But after a petition signed […]

Harborough District Council has agreed to freeze its share of council tax. It is one of just six authorities nationwide to make no increase in the charge for the forthcoming year – saying it wants to support residents through the cost of living crisis. The move was approved at last night’s budget-setting meeting, meaning people […]

A landowner is being used to clear up a pile of rubbish dumped off the A4304 between Market Harborough and Lubenham. Containing tree branches, food waste and even a child’s pop-up tent, it was fly-tipped on a track earlier this month. The mess has been branded ‘disgusting’ by a dog walker who told HFM: “The […]

Police recovered a car within two hours of it being stolen after it was located in a village near Lutterworth last night. Officers responded after the vehicle was taken during a burglary in Wigston. A spokesperson for Leicestershire Police told HFM: “A car that was stolen during a burglary in Wigston yesterday (Sunday 26 November) […]

The former Natwest bank in Market Harborough has been put up for sale for £350,000. The branch closed last month and the building on St Mary’s Road, which was a bank for more than 100 years, is now on the market. The property comes complete with ‘a strong room’ and agents marketing it say: “The […]

The delayed redevelopment of an elderly people’s housing site in Market Harborough is finally set to start later this year. A firm has now been awarded the contract to carry out the £6m project at Naseby Square, which will see 38 new affordable homes built. Housing association Platform is to carry out the development, which […]

Leicestershire’s first electric car club is to launch in Tilton on the Hill. The village, which has no public transport, will benefit from two electric cars, which will act as pool cars and be available for residents to hire out. Harborough District Council has teamed up with Leicester-based Green Fox Community Energy Co-operative for the […]