Author: HFM News

Great Bowden Music Fest returns later this week and tickets are selling fast! Musicians will stage six concerts at the St Peter and St Paul’s Church between Thursday and Sunday. The pandemic forced the event to go on-line in 2020 and despite audience numbers being limited this year, so it can be held a Covid-safe […]

Flats in Market Harborough have been closed down because of serious concerns about fire safety. The District Council has served an Emergency Prohibition Order on the two flats, located within a converted house on St Mary’s Road. It worked with the Fire Service and Police to serve the notice, after deeming the properties posed an […]

Arsonists have targeted a derelict house in Desborough for the second time in two months. Fire crews were called to the former Lawrence’s Factory site, off Harborough Road, at 1.45pm on Saturday. Rubbish had been set alight on the first floor of the building, which spread to the interior. Firefighters from Desborough and Kettering tackled […]

Market Harborough’s town centre Tesco supermarket will be re-branded later this month. The store will become a Tesco Express as part of the company’s decision to axe the ‘Metro’ name nationwide. It says staff at the shop on The Square will not be impacted by the move. A Tesco spokesperson told Hfm: “Over the last […]

Fire crews from Market Harborough teamed up with colleagues from Northamptonshire for a training exercise on Saturday. They used the Welland Place retirement complex on St Mary’s Road to practice how they would respond to a fire within a high-rise building. The cross-border training session was to strengthen the working relationship between the crews, who […]

Fire crews from Leicestershire and Northamptonshire will stage a joint training exercise in Market Harborough tomorrow. The event at the Welland Quarter on St Mary’s Road aims to strengthen the working relationship between the two services, which often assist each other at incidents either side of the border. It will also enable firefighters to look […]

Harborough’s Enviro-Crime officers have found evidence they hope will lead them back to where dumped rubbish came from. The building and household waste was dumped on Station Road, Newton Harcourt, earlier this week. A spokesperson for Harborough District Council said: “Traceable evidence was found amongst the household waste and this will be investigated. “If anyone […]

A Market Harborough youngster is taking the national electric karting championships by storm. Joel Dixon-Coen, aged 11, took up the sport competitively two years ago and is currently second in the Total Karting Zero Championship after two of the six rounds. The young racer, a pupil at Meadowdale Primary School, told Hfm he is feeling […]

Leicester City centre-back Josh Knight has signed for Championship side Peterborough United for a ‘substantial fee.’ The 23-year-old from Fleckney, a former student at Robert Smyth Academy in Market Harborough, joined the Foxes at the age of eight and signed his first professional contract with the Club 10 years later. He spent last season on loan with […]

Temporary traffic lights at the railway bridge on Kettering Road in Little Bowden will be made permanent. The response to a public consultation was overwhelmingly in favour of the move, together with keeping a wider cycling lane. Both were introduced by Leicestershire County Council last year to boost safety, initially on a temporarily basis, using […]