Author: HFM News

Nurses at Kettering General Hospital and Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Trust have voted to strike over pay. Those working at hospitals and for community teams in Leicestershire will not be taking part in proposed walkouts, because the turnout at the ballot was not high enough. Staff at East Midlands Ambulance Service have also voted in favour […]

Some people in the Harborough District will be represented by a different Member of Parliament if planned changes to boundaries go-ahead. Fleckney, Saddington, Husbands Bosworth and the Kilworths would move from the Harborough to South Leicestershire parliamentary constituency under the proposal. Villages in the north of the District, along with places including Hallaton and Melbourne, […]

A company has been fined £4,500 for breaching animal welfare regulations at a former pig farm near Lutterworth. An investigation was launched after an animal rights campaign group carried out secret filming at Flat House Farm in Gilmorton in 2020. Elvidge Farms were sentenced at Leicester Magistrates’ Court yesterday, after a prosecution was brought by […]

HFM has been presented with a Queen’s Platinum Jubilee award for the work it does for the community. The radio station was one of 70 organisations across Leicestershire to be recognised, each representing a year of Her late Majesty’s reign. Diana Brooks, Deputy Lieutenant of the Leicestershire, presented the award: Other groups to be handed […]

Regular speed checks are to take place on Northampton Road in Market Harborough. It will be one of seven new locations to be visited by the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Road Safety Partnership (LLRRSP), following community concerns. Enforcement vans will monitor the speed of traffic on the road for the next 18 months. Jonathan Clarkson, […]

Parents and carers of special needs children will meet NHS representatives in Kibworth tonight. The meeting at Kibworth Grammar School Hall at 7pm has been called over concerns about access to services. It has been organised by campaigner Zuffar Haq:

East Midlands Railway says it will be running a normal level of service from Market Harborough tomorrow after strike action was suspended. The operator had been unable to change its ammended timetable for other planned walkouts yesterday and on Saturday. EMR says there still maybe a number of short notice alterations throughout Wednesday, so is […]

Charities in Desborough and Rothwell are to be handed thousands of pounds after construction traffic failed to follow the designated route to a new homes site. Contractors were fined by Persimmon Homes, who are building 700 houses off the B576 between the two towns, with the cash to be split between charitable groups. Campaigners from […]

Harborough Museum will feature in an episode of TV’s Bargain Hunt this week. Cameras visited to see the Symington Collection while the team was filming in the area shopping for antiques. The collection is internationally-renowned for the large amount of 19th and 20th century corsets, underwear and swim wear, all produced at the former factory […]

Dates have been announced for festive events in Market Harborough. The Christmas lights will be switched on during an event being organised by Harborough District Council on The Square on Friday November 18th. It will coincide with a Christmas Food and Drink Festival on The Square, which will begin that day and continue across the […]