Author: HFM News

Ten new electric vehicle charging points will be installed at car parks in Market Harborough over the next few weeks. They will be placed in the Doddridge Road, St Mary’s West and Angel Street car parks, after the District Council secured government cash and other funding towards the £73,000 project. The chargers will be available […]

Plans have been announced to build a new cemetery in Market Harborough. The current facility on Northampton Road is expected to reach capacity in two years’ time and there is no option to extend it further. Harborough District Council expects to spend around a million pounds on a new cemetery in the year 2024/2025 and […]

Bus service disruptions show no sign of improving as Stagecoach continues to cancel journeys serving Market Harborough. More than 20 services on the number 18 route, that links the town with Desborough, Rothwell and Kettering, have been cancelled this week due to driver shortages. The operator has blamed Brexit and the national HGV driver shortage […]

There is disruption to blue-lidded bin collections across Harborough. It is due to reduced capacity at the recycling facility used by the District Council’s waste contractor. Bin crews were unable to complete collections yesterday and there is likely to be a knock-on effect today and tomorrow. Residents whose bins have not been emptied as normal […]

Permission has been granted for Leicestershire County Council to dispose of over 100 pigs seized from a suspected illegal pig farm in the Harborough District. The authority secured an order at Leicester Magistrates’ Court today, enabling it to sell or re-home the 128 animals. They were removed from a farm in Leire, near Lutterworth last […]

Fewer trains will serve Market Harborough from Monday as East Midlands Railway introduces a reduced timetable. It is because of covid-related staff sickness and demand for services dropping, with the government still advising people to work from home. Four northbound and four southbound services won’t run during weekdays – there will be no change at […]

Police are investigating an allegation of illegal hunting after hounds were seen chasing a fox out of a field and through the middle of a village near Lutterworth. It happened in Peatling Magna on Saturday afternoon. The Great Bowden-based Fernie Hunt says a number of its hounds became ‘disorientated’ during rainfall and it took immediate […]

The Army is being drafted-in to assist ambulance crews across the Hfm region. Sixty military personnel will help East Midlands Ambulance Service respond to non-emergency calls, due to continued high demand and the large number of staff self-isolating due to Covid-19. They will work alongside Urgent Care crews, who attend patients who have already been […]

Harborough District Council is set to increase its share of Council Tax by the maximum allowed by government. It is proposing charging residents living in a Band D property £5 extra this year, taking its proportion of the bill to just under £178. The authority has announced its budget plans for the forthcoming year, which […]

KFC is eyeing-up a return the Market Harborough. The fast-food giant, which shut its outlet in St Mary’s Place in 2019, has named the town on a list of locations where it wants to open and has begun a search for potential sites. The company says the new Market Harborough base would be what is […]