Author: HFM News

A woman who died after a crash in Market Harborough has been named by Police, as officers continue to urge witnesses to come forward. Paige Howard, 25, from Market Harborough. was sadly pronounced dead at the scene of the collision, in an area off Great Bowden Road, near to Albany Road. The crash happened at […]

A specially-built mortuary has opened to help cope with the numbers of people dying after testing positive for Coronavirus in Leicestershire. Housed in a vacant building on the Leicester General Hospital site, the first part of it opened over the weekend. 106 people have died in Leicester’s Hospitals after contracting Covid-19. A similar facility has also […]

A bungalow has been left damaged following a fire in Market Harborough early this morning. Fire crews from Market Harborough and Kibworth rushed to Shropshire Place after being alerted to the blaze in a bedroom at 1.15am. Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus tackled the fire. The seven occupants, a mixture of adults and children, were able […]

Tributes are being paid to a Market Harborough business owner who has died, aged 51. Raj Aggarwal ran the Insomnia Coffee Shop in the Symington Building on Adam and Eve Street and the Spar shop in Wigston. Raj, from Great Glen, has been described as a true gentleman, retail legend and larger than life character. […]

Harborough Police have issued seven fines in two days to people flouting the government’s lock-down rules. All have been given to people who were gathering in groups of more than two – who were not family members – and refused to disperse when told to by officers. The £60 fixed penalty notices – among 20 […]

Harborough Council has extended its environmental services contract for an extra two years. It means FCC Environment will continue carrying out bin and waste collections and grounds maintenance across the District until 2025. The decision’s been taken to give the authority time to consider a new waste strategy, due to be published in 2023 – […]

A police helicopter was scrambled to help search for a missing person in Market Harborough last night. It assisted officers on the ground after a man went missing just before 10pm. Leicestershire Police say he was found safe and well just over an hour later.

Anglian Water say a white substance that flowed into the River Welland in Market Harborough was milk. Engineers were sent to investigate after a large amount was seen coming out of a storm drain at the bottom of the Memorial Gardens last night. The company says an ‘unknown third-party’ was responsible for pouring it down […]

People across the Hfm Region will once again join a national applause tonight for NHS staff and other key workers on the front-line during the Coronavirus pandemic. The Clap For Our Carers campaign is into its third week, and one local man who has more reason than most to be joining in is Hylton Murray-Philipson […]

The RSPCA is appealing for information after dead animals and skins were dumped on a remote country lane near Lutterworth. The bodies including a muntjac deer, stoat, woodpecker and weasel were found on Woodway Lane, near to the junction with Main Road, in Claybrooke Parva on March 18th, although details have just been released. RSPCA […]