Author: HFM News

Students and staff are celebrating good A Level results at the Robert Smyth Academy in Market Harborough. Nearly half of all the grades were A star to B and 75 of them were in the top A and A* category. These students told Hfm how they had got on: 70% of students are now going […]

34 guns and more than 900 rounds of ammunition have been handed in to Leicestershire Police during a two-week national firearms amnesty. They included seven revolvers, eight shotguns and a stun gun. People could surrender weapons into special bins at Police Stations, including in Market Harborough, with no questions asked.

The Symington Building in Market Harborough was evacuated earlier after a fire alert Three fire crews were called to Adam and Eve Street just after 10.30am, after the fire alarm had sounded. Council workers had to leave, as well as those in the Library, Musuem, coffee shop and Gallones Ice Cream Parlour. A light fitting […]

The traditional cross-street Christmas lights are returning to Market Harborough’s Church Street. There was outcry when they weren’t erected last year because of changes to health and safety legislation, with over 1,400 people signing a petition. New electrical installations and brackets will now be installed by Harborough Council, enabling the displays to go up again. […]

New free monthly sessions are being launched by Harborough Museum and Market Harborough Library for two to five-year-olds to help them learn through crafts and story-telling. ‘Museum Minis’ will run on the first Friday of every month and will teach children what the museum has to offer through a story, touch, smell and a craft […]

Severn Trent Water say temporary traffic lights at the junction of Kettering Road and Gores Lane in Little Bowden will be operated manually at peak times in a bit to reduce congestion. They were installed this morning so work to connect new water pipes can take place, but are leading to long queues, as it’s […]

Plans to charge people moving into new houses across Harborough for wheelie bins are set to be considered again. The move was put on hold last year following concerns, including bins becoming a target for thieves. When the plan was announced, a delivery fee of around £45 per bin was proposed, with the charge also […]

Large signs promoting a new homes development in Great Bowden will have to be taken down after being deemed an eye-sore. Harborough Council planners say the nine, two-metre high advertisements, in fields at the side of Leicester Lane, directing people to a Mulberry Homes development, adversely affect the visual amenity of the rural location. A […]

The plan to convert a historic building in Market Harborough town centre into apartments appears to be in doubt. Developers have withdrawn a planning application for Brooklands House on Northampton Road, that also included a new two-storey building going up at the rear, backing onto Walcot Road. The building – that went up in the […]

A kitchen worker at HMP Gartree has been jailed for 14 months for smuggling packets of tobacco and a mobile phone inside for prisoners. Maxine Yeow, 48, hid them in rice pudding tins, but  was caught when it was discovered payments had been made into her bank account, totaling £1,000, by an inmate’s girlfriend. Yeow, […]