Author: HFM News

Firefighters were called after a dishwasher caught fire at a house in Market Harborough on Friday night. Crews from Market Harborough and Desborough were sent to Nithsdale Avenue just after 7.30pm and used breathing apparatus to tackle the blaze in the kitchen. The fire destroyed the dishwasher and caused some damage to the kitchen. No-one […]

A family-run electrical shop in Market Harborough is to close after 65 years of trading. R D Jeacock & Sons Limited on Coventry Road will shut its doors for the final time at the end of November. A reduction in the availability of quality stock in the current climate is being blamed for the decision. […]

Over 800 fines have been issued to people breaching coronavirus restrictions across Leicestershire and Northamptonshire. Of the 515 handed out in Leicestershire, 8 people have been handed the maximum £10,000 penalty, including one to the owner of the Gate Hangs Well pub in Syston, for allowing an event with 300 people and others to those […]

Concern is being expressed about the future of Market Harborough’s Showground. No long-term lease has ever been secured by the Leicestershire Agricultural Society, despite terms for a ten year deal being agreed in 2015, when landowners gave it the 85-acre site to run and operate. It was always pledged the land, which in recent weeks […]

Youngsters and their parents are being invited to take part in an alternative Halloween event in Market Harborough tomorrow. With trick or treating being discouraged because of the pandemic, town churches have teamed up to organise the Superhero Light Trail between 4pm and 7.30pm. Children are asked to dress up as their favourite superhero – […]

There has been another rise in Coronavirus cases in the Harborough District. 170 people tested positive in the seven days to October 25th – compared with 106 the week before. It takes the infection rate to 181 per 100,000 people – but that is still below the national average of 225. The coronavirus rate in […]

A man has been arrested in connection with theft offences in the Harborough District. The 53-year-old is also being questioned on suspicion of possessing an offensive weapon and driving offences. He was arrested after a van made-off from Police officers on Brookfield Way in Lutterworth just after 6.30pm yesterday, before it was stopped a short […]

A man from Great Glen has been accused of being part of the Islamic State terror group for the past four years. Hisham Chaudhary, 27, of Chestnut Avenue, faces seven terror charges, including sending money to allow captured militants to escape prison camps in Syria and compiling and distributing a terrorist publication. He appeared at […]

A warning has been issued to school children in Market Harborough after a teenage girl was followed by a man. It happened as the Year 10 student was walking to Welland Park Academy yesterday morning. The man, described as aged 40 to 50, who was wearing grey baggy jogging buttons and a black hoodie – […]

An elderly man was taken to hospital after falling down stairs at his home in Little Bowden yesterday afternoon. Emergency services were called to Rectory Lane just after 4pm and an Air Ambulance was scrambled, with the helicopter landing on the green near-by. The man was treated at the scene, before being taken to hospital […]