Author: HFM News

A man has been jailed for ten weeks for ignoring a ban on entering the majority of Market Harborough. Leigh Marlow was arrested by Police on the High Street on Friday for breaching his Criminal Behaviour Order. It was imposed in January for five years, after he assaulted Police officers, damaged the iconic ‘Tommy’ silhouette […]

A ‘virtual’ Harborough Carnival is to take place next month – in place of the traditional event that has been postponed because of the Coronavirus pandemic. Organisers still wanted to do something on carnival day – Saturday June the 13th – and local clubs, bands and businesses will all be joining in on-line, doing demonstrations […]

Police are treating the death of a woman in Market Harborough as ‘unexplained’ but not suspicious. Officers were called to a flat in the Welland Quarter on St Mary’s Road on Saturday afternoon, after the body of the woman in her 50s was found. Police say a file is being prepared for the Coroner.

Harborough Police have pledged to deal with people breaching lockdown restrictions by gathering in large groups. It’s been happening in various places across the District, including Welland Park in Market Harborough, Little Bowden Recreation Ground and Warwick Park in Kibworth. Gatherings also took place over the weekend on Kibworth Town Football Club’s pitches off Fleckney […]

A man suffered burns to his hands and legs after a fire in a workshop at the back of a house in Stoke Albany last night. He was also treated for the effects of inhaling smoke, before being taken to hospital. Fire crews from Desborough and Corby were called at 8.45pm and used breathing apparatus […]

People are rallying round to help a mother and her three young children who lost nearly all their possessions in a house fire in Husbands Bosworth on Saturday. They have had to move out of their home in Knights Close following the blaze, which started in a shed at about 5pm and then spread to […]

The completion of a new care home in Market Harborough, on the site of the former Cottage Hospital, has been put back because of the Coronavirus pandemic. Acacia Care, who began work on the Coventry Road site last summer, originally hoped it would be completed by August, although now say it’s likely to be finished […]

A Market Harborough Mum whose son’s life was saved thanks to a multi-organ transplant hopes a new law will bring fresh hope to others on the waiting list. Jay Crouch received two new kidneys, a pancreas, liver and bowel in 2018 when he was aged 7 – they are came from a boy of a […]

A Police helicopter has been circling Market Harborough this morning, but there is no need to be concerned. New pilots from the National Police Air Service base in Husbands Bosworth were on a training exercise. The helicopter hovered about the Southern Estate and other areas. A spokesperson for NPAS told Hfm that because of the […]

Market Harborough’s Convoy has now raised over £900 for the town’s Jubilee Foodbank. The latest was held last night to salute NHS and keyworkers dealing with the Coronavirus pandemic, and to coincide with the weekly Clap For Our Carers. Around 50 vehicles passed through town, with people making donations on an on-line fundraising page to […]