Author: HFM News

Market Harborough’s Farndon Fields Farm shop has been named the best in the UK! The family-run business has beaten off competition from dozens of others to be crowned Farm Shop Of The Year at the prestigious Shop Of The Year Awards, run by the Guild of Fine Food. The awards recognise and promote excellence in […]

More Police officers are based in Market Harborough from today. A new operating model introduced by the Leicestershire Force aims to bring back more local policing to the area. Response Officers, who were relocated from the Fairfield Road station to Leicester five years ago, as part of cost-cutting, have returned under the new role of […]

A burglar who stole jewellery from a house in Desborough has been jailed for four and a half years. Danny Lane was disturbed by the homeowner after breaking into the house at 11am on January 23rd and then fled pursuing Police officers in a car. The 39-year-old, of no fixed abode, was arrested in London […]

A fundraising drive is being launched by a Market Harborough Mum to help research into a rare heart disease which claimed the life of her son. Julie Greenslade’s apparently healthy son Jamie Phillip died of Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome last year. She an her family are supporting the charity Cardiac Risk in the Young – […]

A therapy dog stolen from the home of a 12-year-old girl with autism has been found dead. Three-year-old Dalmatian Lottie was taken during a burglary at Chloe Hopkins house in Peatling Parva in early December. Her Mum Gemma – who says her daughter is heartbroken – received the devastating news from a vet after the […]

The RSPCA is appealing for information after a starving critically-ill dog dumped in a crate near East Farndon had to be put down. The pedigree dog, of the Chinese Shar-Pei breed, which couldn’t walk and had half its fur missing due to a severe skin condition,was found at the Battle Of Naseby Prince Rupert’s Viewpoint […]

A driver escaped injury after his car burst into flames in Rushton earlier today. Firefighters from Desborough were called to deal with the Mini ablaze on Desborough Road at 10.30am.                         The car was well alight when they arrived and the crew used breathing […]

Firms are celebrating winning awards at the 2020 Harborough District Business Awards. 23 finalists were competing in eight categories at the Hfm-backed ceremony at the Three Swans Hotel on Friday night. Winners were Waterloo Cottage Farm in Great Oxendon, who won the Community Award, Refill Revolution, based at Harborough Market and the Eco Village – […]

Swimmers raised over £5,000 at the Market Harborough Swim Marathon over the weekend. The Hfm-backed event at the Leisure Centre saw teams from groups, clubs and schools swim in relay for fifty minutes non-stop. Over 180 swimmer took part, covering a total of 5008 lengths of the pool, which is nearly 125km. Two teams of […]

B&M is closing its store in Market Harborough town centre. It will shut at the beginning of next month and the discount retailer says it is working with staff to relocate them to other near-by stores, including its other one in Harborough off Rockingham Road. The store in the Commons Car Park has been open […]