Author: HFM News

Burglars have stolen a coin collection from a house in Dingley. Police are appealing for information after the break-in at the home on Harborough Road, sometime between 6pm on Sunday, November 29th and 2pm the following day. Anyone with information about the burglary, or who may have been offered a coin collection for sale in […]

Police are re-appealing for witnesses a week on from an arson attack in Rothwell. Petrol was poured through the letterbox of a ground-floor flat in Edinburgh Close and doused up the walls and in the garden, before being set alight sometime between 8.40 and 9.10pm last Wednesday (November 27th) Luckily the blaze did not spread […]

Plans have been announced to build houses on the former Thorpes Joinery site in Great Glen. The factory and warehouse buildings would be demolished to make-way for ten semi-detached homes, at the site off Church Road, if permission for the redevelopment is granted by Harborough Council. Northamptonshire-based Hazelton Homes have lodged the planning application after […]

A thief has stolen a pensioner’s handbag while she was shopping in Market Harborough town centre. It was grabbed after the woman, in her 70s, placed it on the ground while paying at the GT News shop in St Mary’s Place, also home to the the town centre Post Office branch. Police say the victim […]

Western Power Distribution has apologised after power cuts affected over a thousand homes and businesses in the Hfm Region last night. A high voltage cable fault caused the outage in the Kibworth area just before 8pm, with the majority of supplies restored by 9pm. Meanwhile, a fault with an overhead pylon left people in the […]

Work is continuing to repair a large gas main that burst in a field off the A6  outskirts of Market Harborough. There was a strong smell of gas in the area near the McDonald’s roundabout that prompted a number of people to report the issue to Cadent Gas. A spokesman told Hfm the leak affected […]

What would you like to see improved in Market Harborough town centre? That is the question residents are being asked as experts continue to draw up a Masterplan for the development of the area over the next ten to fifteen years. An on-line consultation has been launched by Harborough Council for people to have their […]

People are being warned no trains will run south from Market Harborough for eight days over Christmas. The line will be shut from 10pm on Christmas Eve until 8am on January 2nd to allow for engineer works to take place between Kettering and Bedford. A replacement bus service will operate instead – northbound services are […]

The new car park at Market Harborough Railway Station will finally open on December 15th. Network Rail has announced the date following criticism that work on the 200-space extension has appeared finished for the last few weeks, although drivers cannot yet use it. A spokesman told Hfm final work on the car park still needs […]

Police are appealing for information to find two brothers wanted in connection with a robbery at the Justin Park Travellers’ site near Market Harborough. Officers want to speak to Francis Gavin, 27 and Patrick Gavin, 30, both from from Bitteswell, near Lutterworth, following an incident at the site off Harborough Road on August 30th this […]