Author: HFM News

Drivers are being warned sections of Rockingham Road in Market Harborough will be closed to traffic overnight next week. Carriageway repairs will take place in three stages from Tuesday evening and last for up to four nights. Closures will be between 8pm and 6am and diversions will be signposted. Leicestershire County Council will be carrying out […]

Nine people have been arrested after fighting broke out at the end of Harborough Town Football Club’s derby match against Corby Town last month. Leicestershire Police say a mixture of men and youths have been arrested in connection with the violence and one person voluntarily interviewed. A man and a Police officer needed hospital treatment […]

The army is being drafted in to help East Midlands Ambulance service when staff stage strike action on Monday. Military personnel will be used to respond to 999 calls, but will assist in driving vehicles to less seriously ill patients. EMAS expects around 20 soldiers to be made available when members of the GMB and […]

Severn Trent Water is working to repair a burst pipe which led to water supply problems in Market Harborough earlier today. Homes and businesses in the Northampton Road area had no water or very low pressure, although supplies should now be returning. Severn Trent Water teams are working to fix the issue near the Caxton […]

Hundreds of villagers have signed a petition amid fears their only bus services could be scrapped. West Northamponshire Council is considering withdrawing financial support for routes 59 and 60, which link places including Welford, Naseby, Clipston and Marston Trussell with Market Harborough and Northampton. It is feared the routes, which also receive financial support from […]

An appeal for information has been launched after cannabis-growing equipment was dumped on the A6 near Foxton. Over 50 black bags were flytipped in a lay-by, which also contained sections of cannabis plants and soil. The discovery was made yesterday and Harborough District Council’s environmental crime officers are investigating. Anyone who can help with the […]

A blaze which engulfed a pub in Lutterworth earlier this week started as a chimney fire. The Shambles on Bell Street was badly damaged by the fire on Monday, which tore through the roof of the historic 16th century thatched building. Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service has now completed an investigation into the blaze. A […]

A man been arrested after 18 dogs were found in a horrific state in the back of a van near Tilton on the Hill. Police officers who stopped the vehicle on Tuesday afternoon say the emaciated dogs and puppies, which were in cages with no food or water, were in the worst condition they had […]

A convicted killer who murdered two women in South Leicestershire in the 1990s has been found guilty of sexually abusing a boy in the years before the attacks. Alun Kyte, 58, attacked the nine-year-old at his home in Staffordshire during a five year campaign of abuse, which began in the 1980s. He is currently serving […]

Improvement work means a two-kilometre stretch of towpath beside the canal in Market Harborough is to close for around four months. The Canal and River Trust has secured funding of £600,000 to make the section more accessible and better for use all-year-round. The stretch of towpath between the canal basin at Union Wharf and ‘Bridge […]