Author: HFM News

A big music festival which had to cancelled will take place at Market Harborough showground next year. Leicester’s One Big Weekend should have been held over the past weekend, but issues linked to the pandemic forced organisers, Sue Young Cancer Support, to cancel it. They say most people who bought tickets for this year’s event […]

A car towing a trailer carrying five bullocks jackknifed on the Market Harborough bypass this morning. Police were called the A6 between the Rockingham Road and McDonald’s roundabouts just after 9.30am. The road was closed while the animals – which were unharmed – were transferred to another trailer. Leicestershire Police say no other vehicles were […]

A motorcyclist was injured in a crash with a car on the B6047 yesterday. Police and East Midlands Ambulance Service were called to near The Langtons at around 11am. Officers say the male rider suffered ‘minor injuries.’ The stretch of road was closed between the McDonald’s roundabout and The Langtons while emergency services worked at […]

A teenager who caused the death of his friend after a high-speed crash in a Harborough village has been jailed for 15 months. Brennan Carpenter, 19, was driving at over 80mph when his Ford Fiesta left the road, overturned and came to rest in a brook on Willoughby Road in Willoughby Waterleys. The front seat […]

A Market Harborough teaching assistant is preparing to swim the English Channel. Kirsten Braham will be part of a five-strong ‘Pink Wave’ relay team, who will take it in turns to swim an hour each from Dover to the shores of France. The team is being sponsored to raise money for two cancer charities, both […]

Teenagers across Harborough are being invited to book a covid jab from today. Those within three months of their 18th birthday you can book an appointment online. There are also several walk in clinics operating across Leicestershire this weekend, which are open to 16 and 17-year-olds. Caroline Trevithick, Executive Director of Nursing, Quality and Performance […]

A live grenade pulled out of the canal in Market Harborough was blown up by army bomb disposal experts last night. Aaron Fraser discovered it while magnet fishing on the towpath close to Union Wharf, behind Logan Crescent. Police set-up a cordon until the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team arrived to take the device to a […]

Police have set-up a cordon after a suspected unexploded grenade was pulled out of the canal in Market Harborough by people magnet fishing. Officers were called to the towpath behind Logan Crescent just after 3pm today and a bomb disposal team has been called to the scene. Logan Crescent has been closed to traffic and […]

Leicester City have revealed the first images of their planned redevelopment of the King Power Stadium. The club is hoping to expand the ground to 40,000 seats and revitalise the surrounding area by building a hotel and indoor arena. 8,000 extra seats would be added as part of a new East Stand. The Foxes are […]

Harborough Market is creating a People’s Gallery to celebrate the 800th anniversary of its Tuesday Market. Anyone with old pictures, artwork or photos, depicting markets or landmark events in the town over the years, is invited to share them for duration of the exhibition, which will be held at the Market Hall during September. If […]