Author: HFM News

A Market Harborough health campaigner has branded Boots’ decision to charge for prescription deliveries ‘a tax on sick people’. The chemist, which has a branch in St Mary’s Place, is to bring in the £5for existing customers at the end of the month or make them pay a £55 annual subscription. Phil Knowles says people […]

The father of one of the gang who stole the ATM from at the Spar Shop in Market Harborough has been jailed. Derek Hall hid more than a hundred thousand pounds brought to him by his son in a toilet cistern and in the hood of the oven at his home in Derbyshire. Leicester Crown […]

Two cyclists collided with each other in Market Harborough during last night’s rush hour. It happened at the junction of Rockingham Road and Gores Lane at 5.50pm, leaving one of them on the floor in the road. Police say the female rider suffered a shoulder injury and was taken to hospital for treatment. Officers are […]

Police have deployed a metal detecting ‘knife-arch’ at Market Harborough railway station as part of a campaign to tackle knife-crime. The metal detector has been set-up in the booking office as passengers head to and from platforms. The action, demonstrated in the above video where Pc Paul Farrar, from Harborough Police, searches a passenger, is […]

A man has been returned to prison after being arrested in Market Harborough yesterday. Police say Gary Parker, 32, of no fixed abode, had breached his licence conditions after being released following a sentence for shoplifting offences. He was arrested in St Mary’s Place.

Over 30 shops and businesses in Market Harborough are displaying work by talented local artists in their windows throughout this month. Art Windows has been organised by the Harborough Artists Cluster with the support of independent traders in the town centre. Paintings, textile pieces, photography and sculpture are all on display and people can pick […]

A Market Harborough woman wants to raise the profile of organ donation after her Mum and Aunty died from brain hemorrhages within 24 hours of each other, in separate countries. Amanda Williams, who was 54, collapsed as she was preparing to fly out to be at the bedside of her sister Jacqueline, who was three […]

Market Harborough has won Gold in the East Midlands In Bloom competition. The town came second in the Large Town category of the contest, beaten by Ilkeston in Derbyshire to first place by just a single point. There were also gold awards for the Market Harborough C of E Church Primary School’s wildlife garden, and […]

A Market Harborough organisation that supports victims of bullying is celebrating achieving charitable status. Harborough Against Bullying was formed in 2011 and following a short break was re-launched at the start of this year. The new status means people can be assured all money raised goes directly to its vital work and it will also […]

Environmental campaigners will hold a protest in Market Harborough town centre on Friday lunchtime. They will join action across the country and in other nations, billed as a ‘Global Climate Strike,’ calling for action on Climate Change. It’s ahead of a United Nations summit on the issue next week. A number of local school pupils […]