Author: HFM News

Parents and carers across Harborough are being urged to apply for a secondary school place if their child is due to finish primary school next year. The deadline for applications is the end of this month and the county council is advising it’s done online and that at least one of those applied for is […]

Harborough’s Conservative MP says it is vital the next Prime Minister returns to the spirit of his party’s election-winning manifesto in 2019. Neil O’Brien has been speaking to HFM after Liz Truss announced her resignation today, after a chaotic 44 days in office. Her short premiership has been marred by political infighting, policy U-turns and […]

Detailed plans for 300 more houses on a new estate on the edge of Market Harborough could be approved next week. The proposal forms phases three and five of Overstone Park off Kettering Road at Clack Hill and includes a mix of one to five bedroom homes and bungalows. Councillors are being recommended to grant […]

The search is on for a sponsor to subsidise the cost of installing Christmas Trees above premises in Market Harborough this year. Over 100 shops and businesses usually take part in the scheme, which aims to make the town centre sparkle during the festive season. Despite an increase in the cost of trees and lights […]

A tree from the late Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations is to be planted in Market Harborough’s Welland Park. The sapling helped form the 69-foot-tall ‘Tree of Trees’ sculpture in front of Buckingham Palace in June. The park is one of just five places in Leicestershire and 300 nationwide selected for the project, which aims to create […]

Yet more strike action will disrupt train services from Market Harborough next month. RMT Union members at East Midlands Railway will walk out on November 3rd and 5th, in the on-going row over pay and conditions. Services will also be affected on November 7th when Network Rail staff strike. An EMR spokesman said: “This will […]

A 41-year-old man from Warwickshire has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving following a crash on the M6 in Leicestershire. Police were called to a report of a collision on the southbound carriageway, near junction 1, just after 4.30am on Friday (14 October). It involved a black BMW 5 Series, which […]

An extra £3.6m of Government cash is enabling Leicestershire County Council to step up the support it’s providing this winter as cost of living pressures bite. The cash will be used to offer emergency food and fuel support totalling £1.5m, triple the amount allocated last year; and will ensure 14,000 children across the county have […]

The go-ahead has been given for 700 new homes in Desborough, despite a quiet cul-de-sac being turned into an access road. The houses will form phase two of the Grange estate, although residents of Rowan Close expressed serious safety concerns, as they estimate around 200 vehicles an hour will use their street at busy times, […]

Campaigners say government spending cuts could impact the plan to build a massive new prison near Market Harborough. New Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has admitted ‘decisions of eye-watering difficulty’ lie ahead, after asking all government departments to review spending. A Public Inquiry into the building of the 1700-inmate jail on land near HMP Gartree concluded this […]