Author: HFM News

Staff are celebrating at Market Harborough’s Farndon Fields Farm Shop after it was crowned the county’s Best Independent Retail Outlet at last night’s Leicestershire tourism awards. The Market Harborough Food and Drink Festival, hosted by Harborough Council, picked up a Highly Commended award in the Best Event (Free Entry) category and Wistow Maze got the […]

Police are calling on people to ‘get tough’ with drink and drug drivers as they today launch their festive clampdown. Last December over 150 drivers were arrested on Leicestershire’s roads – a 56% on the year before – with one driver found to be over six times the legal drink drive limit in a Harborough […]

Around 150 people attended a General Election hustings event in Market Harborough last night. There was standing room only at the Methodist Church Hall, as the five candidates hoping to be elected as the area’s MP, made statements and answered questions from members of the audience. Local issues raised and discussed included education, especially the […]

Heartless burglars have stolen Christmas presents and other items from a house in Desborough after waking up the homeowner who was asleep upstairs. The woman then came face to face with the intruders – a man and a woman – who then fled from the house on Ironwood Avenue at about 4.15am today. Police say […]

Residents are demanding action to stop rail users parking in their street, which they say is creating a safety hazard. Although it has been happening for some time in Hartland Drive, off Gores Lane in Market Harborough, people say the problem has worsened recently, with vehicles left in dangerous positions and driveways even being blocked. […]

Over £5000 has been donated to support the family of a Market Harborough teenager killed in a car crash. Ryan Tealby, who was 17, died when the car he was a back seat passenger in, was involved in a head-on collision with another car on Langton Road near Foxton last Tuesday evening. The on-line fundraising […]

Stunning views of Harborough from the air are being auctioned to support Cancer Research UK. The images, photographed from a drone, will be made into large canvas prints for the highest bidder – and include areas of Market Harborough, Husbands Bosworth and Foxton Locks. View more of the pictures and bid HERE

Most of the bedrooms at The Angel hotel in Market Harborough will no longer be available to guests from the New Year. Instead, they will be used by students from Brooke House College. All the bedrooms in the main part of the historic High Street hotel will be used by the students, although the ground […]

Tributes are being paid to a Market Harborough teenager who died in a car crash last week. Ryan Tealby, who was 17, was a rear seat passenger in a car involved in a head-on collision with another on Langton Road near Foxton last Tuesday evening. He was sadly pronounced dead at the scene. Family and […]

Plans have been revealed for a new 18-hole golf course on 216 acres of land near Houghton on the Hill. It would be a new home for Scraptoft Golf Club, whose existing course is set to be redeveloped as part of a plan to build 1,200 new homes. The proposal for the new course, which […]