Author: HFM News

Campaigners have been told there will be no re-think on the decision to close the Halifax in Market Harborough. They held talks with bosses from the bank to plead for them to think again, following the announcement the branch on The Square will close in October. Lloyds Banking Group says the decision reflects more people […]

Friends of a popular Kibworth man who died from Coronavirus are preparing for a big fundraiser in his memory. Ellis White lost his life last February, aged 24. He was in the ‘vulnerable’ category after having a kidney transplant in 2019 and contracted the virus despite shielding. Ellis, a former student at Robert Smyth Academy […]

A Dakota plane flew over East Farndon yesterday to honour five young RAF airmen who lost their lives during World War Two. Until recently, little was known about the air crash in the village on July 13th 1944. Two Wellington Bombers that had taken off from the RAF base in Market Harborough collided in mid-air […]

Market Harborough’s In Bloom volunteers have been praised today during judging for this year’s East Midlands In Bloom competition. The Judge was given a tour to see floral displays, including in the town centre and Welland Park, and also visited the Stevens Street allotments. The In Bloom team work with Harborough District Council’s contractor FCC […]

There are calls for a re-think on plans to build homes on the derelict Lawrence’s Factory site in Desborough. North Northamptonshire Council, who own the site off Harborough Road, wants to build 43 ‘affordable’ homes on the site off Harborough Road. But Desborough Town Council say the best option is for a mixed development including […]

A man has admitted stealing a lorry trailer containing children’s make-up products worth £86,000 from a business park in Lutterworth. Stephen Richards was seen attaching it to a lorry cab and driving off from the Trout Transport compound in Bilton Way in the early hours of May 24th. The eye-witness alerted Police and he was […]

Market Harborough author Tamsin Winter is celebrating launching her third book for young people today. Girl (in Real Life) is a funny, heartfelt story about what it’s like for a 13-year old to grow up on-line. The title has been crowned Book of The Month in The Observer newspaper and Book of the Week in […]

The government is reconsidering multi-million pound plans to electrify the railway from Market Harborough to Sheffield. The scheme to install wires along the whole of the Midland Mainline to Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield was controversially scrapped in 2017 to save cash. But the Department for Transport is now working with Network Rail in a bid […]

A Market Harborough man has been questioned by Police about a disturbance outside a coffee shop in Northampton. The 36-year-old was arrested on suspicion of affray after officers were called to Abington Street in the town yesterday. He has been released under investigation pending further enquiries, as Police appeal for witnesses and potential victims to […]

A man has been fined £150 after being caught red-handed throwing litter out of his car window near Lutterworth. He was spotted by Council Enviro-Crime officers, who were patrolling the A426 as part of a new campaign to clampdown on litter louts dropping rubbish on roads and laybys. Harborough District Council have issued the driver […]