Author: HFM News

Shops and businesses in Market Harborough are being urged to do their bit to ensure the town centre looks festive this year. Alden Electrical is organising the Christmas Tree scheme and hopes over 100 premises will take part. The price for businesses to have a small tree and lights installed above their premises is £55+vat. […]

A collection Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey has sold at auction in Market Harborough for over £6,000. The bottles were amassed by a Northamptonshire-based collector on trips abroad between the mid-1990s and the early 2000s and featured many limited editions. The 18 lots were sold in an online auction of wines, spirits, whisky and miniatures at Gildings […]

A 12-year-old boy was injured after he was involved in collision with a car in Market Harborough this morning. Police and East Midlands Ambulance Service were called to The Broadway just after 8.40am. An Air Ambulance crew also attended the scene, but the pedestrian was taken to hospital by land ambulance. A Police spokesperson told […]

Police have arrested and charged a man after homes in Market Harborough and Little Bowden were burgled. Christopher Bray is accused of breaking into a house on Victoria Avenue in Market Harborough on October 19th and a property on Scotland Road in Little Bowden the following day, when items including laptops, game consoles, watches and […]

Police patrols will be stepped up in and around Market Harborough this evening for Halloween. Officers say the vast majority of people who go out ‘trick or treating’ will be well behaved, but a minority could use the occasion to get involved in anti-social behaviour. People going door-to-door are being urged to respect the wishes […]

Harborough’s Leisure Centres are supporting a campaign aimed at stopping a million pairs of running shoes from being thrown away. Operator Everyone Active has joined forces with the ‘JogOn’ initiative, so people can leave their unwanted trainers in special collection bins at Harborough Leisure Centre and Lutterworth Sports Centre. They are then sent to people […]

Vandals have wrecked a tree planted at Little Bowden Recreation Ground to mark the late Queen’s Platinum Jubilee year. It was snapped in half sometime over the weekend. The tree was one of a number planted at parks across the district earlier this year. Harborough District Council is appealing for information about who was responsible […]

People are being left stranded at bus stops in Market Harborough because of short-notice cancellations. A shortage of drivers has left Stagecoach unable to run some services on the number 33 town route, which also serves Little Bowden and Great Bowden. Cllr Barbara Johnson, who represents Logan ward, told HFM is causing a lot of […]

Sainsbury’s say a problem with heating at its store in Market Harborough has now been fixed. Customers had been complaining about how cold it was and also expressed concern for staff working in the conditions. One person who contacted the supermarket said: “Your Market Harborough store has had zero heating for weeks – it was […]

Leicestershire’s temporary Chief Constable is set to be given the job on a permanent basis. Rob Nixon has been named as the preferred candidate for the top Police job, following a “robust interview process”. He has served with Leicestershire Police for 29 years and began his career in 1993. Police and Crime Commissioner Rupert Matthews […]