Author: HFM News

Work is beginning to re-build a Market Harborough pub that was gutted by fire. Building teams have moved onto the site off Rockingham Road, where the new Roebuck will go up. Brewery Marston’s is spending around £3m on the development, after the previous building was demolished following a major blaze last September. The firm hopes […]

A safety review is to take place at a notorious accident blackspot just outside Market Harborough after another serious crash. The collision a week ago on the A6, at the junction with Kettering Road at Clack Hill, left one driver with serious injuries. It was the latest to have happened at the junction in the […]

Post Office services in Market Harborough town centre look to have been saved, with the announcement today a new branch is set to open. It will go inside a new convenience store planned for an empty shop on Adam and Eve Street – formally a beer shop. The future of a Post Office in the […]

Men from Houghton on the Hill and Bushby are among 23 people to be convicted of involvement in a major cross-county drugs plot. Detectives mounted an operation last summer to target those involved in supplying drugs across Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Liverpool, executing over 50 warrants. Ashley Boyd, 34, of Chapel Close, Houghton on the […]

A plan to build houses on the former Thorpes Joinery site in Great Glen has been withdrawn. It proposed demolishing the factory and warehouse buildings so ten semi-detached homes could be built on the site off Church Road. Northamptonshire-based Hazelton Homes lodged a planning application in December after Thorpes completed their relocation to Market Harborough, […]

Police are concerned for the safety of two teenagers who have gone missing from the Rothwell area. Summer Stiles, 15, who is described as white, 5ft 5in, of medium build, has short hair which was dyed purple and brown. She was last seen on Saturday wearing light grey jogging bottoms, a dark grey hooded top […]

There will be the unique chance to step into empty locks at Foxton at a series of Open Weekends. The Canal and River Trust is hosting them while water is drained from the historic flight, for restoration work. There will be a host of other activities on offer for the whole family at the Open […]

A Market Harborough firm is in line for a business award, following the death of its founder. The Ideal Marketing Company is shortlisted in the Outstanding Personal Achievement category of the Harborough Business Awards, taking place next month. The nomination focused on the response of staff and co-founder Helen Campbell, after her husband Alastair – […]

Controversial plans to charge people moving into new homes across Harborough for wheelie bins have been scrapped. A number of concerns have led to u-turn by Harborough Council, despite the fact it would have saved the authority over £100,000 a year, including the fact the government is working on a new Waste Strategy, which could […]

Vandals have daubed graffiti on one of the ramps at the skate park in Little Bowden. It is the third time such damage has been caused at the site off Bellfields Lane. The Harborough Wheels Project, who campaigned to get the facility built, say the paint make skateboards, scooters and bikes lose grip, so poses […]