Author: HFM News

Harborough’s Chill Out Bus has been transformed thanks to a £10,000 grant. The vehicle, which enables youngsters in remote parts of the district to access activities and youth workers, has been given a new look inside and out. Cash for the revamp came from the Building Connections Fund managed by the Co-Op Foundation. Young people […]

Highway bosses have raised concerns about Harborough Council’s controversial plan to redevelop an elderly persons’ independent living site in Market Harborough. They say the proposed access off Naseby Square and some of the internal roads planned for the site could be unsuitable and parking provision needs to be looked at again. Leicestershire County Council Highways […]

A man has been handed a Community Order and ordered to pay £150 compensation after admitting damaging a silhouette of a soldier at the War Memorial in Market Harborough town centre. Leicester Magistrates’ heard Leigh Marlow bent the 6ft tall figure while attempting to pull it out of the ground on The Square on Friday […]

Flooding is affecting parts of the Hfm Region today following yesterday’s torrential rain. Flood Alerts have been issued for the Welland Valley and the length of the River Welland through Market Harborough. A number of low-lying back roads are flooded and impassable in places and the Welland Quarter car park in Market Harborough, opposite the […]

One person has been taken to hospital after firefighters were called to assist East Midlands Ambulance Service in Kibworth. The ambulance Service say they were called to a private address at 2.26pm and a patient was transported to Glenfield Hospital in Leicester. Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service say there was no fire at the property. […]

A Police car was rammed on Welland Park Road in Market Harborough on Saturday afternoon, as officers tried to stop a car which sped off. The driver of the vehicle then fled after abandoning it a short distance away. No-one was injured and the car was recovered as enquiries continue to try and trace the […]

Controversial plans to scrap all of Leicestershire’s Borough and District Councils – including Harborough’s – and replace them with a new ‘super authority’ are progressing. The County Council, which is leading the idea, and would also be abolished if it went ahead, has published its business case for the move, including an independent report, which […]

A man will appear at Leicester Magistrates Court accused of damaging a silhouette of a soldier at the War Memorial in Market Harborough town centre. Leigh Marlow, 34, from Aikman Close, Leicester, is charged with criminal damage. He was arrested after Police were called to a report of vandalism at the Memorial on The Square […]

Campaigners in Market Harborough are backing a week of action calling on the government to do more to tackle food poverty. They gathered in the town centre yesterday to throw their weight behind the ‘End UK Hunger’ campaign, including volunteers involved with the town’s Jubilee Foodbank. They see first-hand the problem locally and last year […]

A number of workers at Market Harborough’s Tesco Metro store have lost their jobs. Hfm understands 16 members of staff have been made redundant, some of whom had worked at the supermarket on The Square for over ten years, although the company is refusing to confirm the exact number. It was announced in the summer […]