Author: HFM News

Leicestershire and Rutland Blood Bikes has been honoured with The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK. Volunteers have been recognised for their work in delivering blood and other medical products to hospitals and to air ambulance crews at the scenes of emergencies. Most of the […]

A Health and Well-Being Centre on the edge of Market Harborough is set to be expanded in a scheme aiming to be one of the most sustainable in the country. To be known as ‘Harborough Solar Rise,’ the development at Archway Health and Well Being Centre, on Lubenham Hill, would also include eight custom-built homes […]

East Midlands Ambulance Service has welcomed the announcement all of its crews will be given body-worn cameras, following an increase in assaults. Staff reported 1,048 incidents last year – a rise of over 300 compared with three years ago. The cameras are being provided by the NHS to all ten ambulance trusts in the country, […]

Planning permission has been granted for the first phase of a massive new housing estate on the edge of Market Harborough. 164 homes, 56 of which will be ‘affordable,’ will be built on land adjoining Coleridge Way, off Kettering Road in Little Bowden. Eventually 600 homes will go up on 88 acres of land stretching […]

The go-ahead has been given for Market Harborough’s former Angel Hotel to become a permanent base for Brooke House College. The District Council approved the change of use at a meeting last night. The historic High Street building, which shut as a hotel last year, will become the main catering base for the college – […]

Highway bosses want people’s views on making temporary traffic lights on Kettering Road in Little Bowden permanent. They were installed either side of the railway bridge last year – as part of a scheme to improve safety for cyclists – replacing the previous give way system. Leicestershire County Council has launched a four-week public consultation […]

An ’emergency’ no parking restriction has come into force in part of Great Bowden, following road safety concerns. It affects one side of Main Street, between Gunnsbrook Close and the The Green, and part of Langton Road. The urgent action, by highway bosses at Leicestershire County Council, follows complaints from villagers about parked cars near […]

Over 50 sunflowers were planted in Market Harborough over the Bank Holiday Weekend in support of the Compassionate Town campaign. Volunteers from the Rotary Club of Market Harborough planted them in an allotment field off Northampton Road, opposite Protheroes garage. Sunflowers are the recognised emblem of the Compassionate Town campaign, which was launched earlier this […]

The Coronavirus rate across Harborough dropped to one of the lowest in the country last week. The district had the 14th fewest cases in the week ending May the 26th – placing it 296th in a list of 315 areas. Four new cases were reported in the seven days, according to Public Health England figures […]

An faulty fridge is thought to have caused a fire which damaged a garage adjoining a house in Market Harborough. Fire crews from Market Harborough and Desborough were called to Tungstone Way at 6.40am on Sunday. Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus tackled the fire, which left the structure 20% damaged by fire and severely smoke damaged. […]