Author: HFM News

GP surgeries across Harborough will be closed on Monday to give NHS staff the opportunity to watch the Queen’s funeral. People with appointments for that day will be contacted so they can be rearranged and those needing repeat prescriptions are being urged to order them in advance of the Bank Holiday. Dr Andy Ahyow, GP […]

An unexploded World War Two shell was safely detonated after it was found in a back garden in Rothwell. A builder working at the property in Charles Street discovered it yesterday morning and called Police. Officers put a cordon in place and closed near-by roads until the arrival of army bomb disposal experts. They safety […]

Plans have been announced to open a Story Centre in Market Harborough. The facility, which would be the first of its kind in the East Midlands, would provide activities for children and adults and the group behind the idea have secured charitable status, so they can fundraise towards the ambitious project. They want the centre to […]

Hundreds of residents across Harborough are yet to claim a payment to help with the soaring cost of energy bills and will miss out unless they act quickly. Those who didn’t get the £150 paid directly into their accounts earlier this year were instead sent vouchers and 890 residents have yet to cash them in at […]

Customers at The Royalist pub in Market Harborough have been sharing their memories of the Queen on live TV today. GB News has been broadcasting from the pub on the Southern Estate, which itself has a royal connection. Customers who were at the pub for the regular ‘Friendship Lunch,’ organised by home-care provider Home Instead, […]

A teenage boy has been charged with several offences after a car overturned in Lutterworth town centre. The 17-year-old from Grantham in Lincolnshire was arrested after the Audi TT overturned at the junction of Market Street and Church Street on Sunday lunchtime. Leicestershire Police say the boy, who can’t be named for legal reasons, was charged […]

Market Harborough-based fashion retailer Joules says it is no longer in talks with Next about a potential investment worth £15m. Shares in the firm, which employs around 400 people from its Rockingham Road HQ, plunged by 45% yesterday, when emerged there would be no deal between the two Leicestershire-based retailers. Joules, which has been struggling […]

A series of powerful and emotional tributes were paid to the Queen by Harborough councillors last night. The extraordinary meeting of the District Council also heard members pledge their allegiance to the new King Charles. The meeting at the Symington Building began with a minute’s silence and prayer, before councillors, including Cllr Michael Rickman spoke: Cllr […]

Leicestershire Trading Standards have removed items from a former furniture store in Market Harborough as part of ‘enquiries’ into the company. The officers were supported by Leicestershire Police when they visited the former Furniture Loft premises on Riverside, which closed in July. A number of items were taken from the premises and loaded into vans […]

A prolific burglar who fled the country after being arrested for breaking into a house in North Kilworth has been jailed for six years. Eagle-eyed neighbours passed Police the registration number of the car used by Gabriel Ursariu to flee Pincet Lane in December 2018 and officers stopped it shortly afterwards. He absconded while on […]