Author: HFM News

A Market Harborough artist is showcasing the town’s independent businesses in a new series of paintings entitled ‘support local.’ Up until last year Allie Whelan had only ever painted pieces for her family, but decided to dedicate more time to her passion for art after re-assessing her life following two years of cancer treatment. She […]

A rail engineering company has been fined £600,000 for health and safety breaches after an excavator lifting vehicle overturned during improvement works at Market Harborough Railway Station. No-one was seriously injured, although the operator had to be pulled from the cab by other workers, who smashed the windscreen to get him out. An investigation by […]

You can drop off donations for this year’s Hfm-backed Toys on The Table appeal from today. Harborough Market is the collection point for new toys and gifts, as the appeal aims to ensure disadvantaged youngsters across Leicestershire have a present to open on Christmas Day, when they otherwise wouldn’t. Over 4,000 children benefited last year […]

New concerns have been raised about the safety risk a derelict factory in Desborough poses to anyone who enters it. Police and the fire service shared their fears with council officials at a site meeting, held at the former Lawrence’s factory off Harborough Road. Youngsters have been getting into the dangerous building and earlier this […]

A search has been launched for a dog that was seen being dumped out of a van in a Harborough village yesterday afternoon. It is thought the animal may have been stolen after it was abandoned on Leire Lane in Ashby Parva, near Lutterworth, at around 2pm. Volunteers from animal welfare group Beauty’s Legacy are […]

A woman was freed from the wreckage of a car by firefighters after a crash on the A14 on Saturday afternoon. Three vehicles were involved in the collision on the westbound carriageway between junction two (Kelmarsh) and junction one (Welford) at about 2.20pm. A spokesperson for Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service told Hfm: “Crews from […]

The Harborough District has seen the fifth-highest increase in Coronavirus cases in the country in the past week. Figures from Public Health England show 479 people tested positive in the seven days to yesterday – an increase of 192 on the previous week, representing a 67% rise. Just over 13,000 people across Harborough have contracted […]

Harborough Police are carrying out ‘test purchasing’ operations to ensure shops are not selling alcohol to under-age youngsters. The first took place on Friday evening, with staff at six stores in Lutterworth and one in Walcote all refusing to sell items to Police cadets aged under 18, who posed as customers. Officers have praised the […]

Remembrance Sunday was marked with events across the Hfm region yesterday. In Market Harborough, people gathered for a ceremony on The Square led by the Royal British Legion. Dignitaries, including Harborough MP Neil O’Brien, placed wreaths on the War Memorial and a two minute’s silence was observed at 11am. It was a scaled-back event again […]

A man from Broughton Astley has been handed a suspended prison sentence for his part in an organised crime group which supplied and distributed illegal drugs. Ashok Kholia, 59, of Grantham Avenue, admitted allowing a premises to be used for the production of Class B drugs at Leicester Crown Court. He was arrested after a […]