Author: HFM News

Market Harborough is to get a new Post Office next month – inside the Keya News shop on Logan Street. The branch will open on August 21st and provide services for 80 hours a week. A new counter will be created next to the existing retail one. Post Office bosses say the new service, part […]

Plans are being put in place for this year’s Leicestershire County Show which is taking place in Market Harborough for a fourth year. The agricultural event will be held over the weekend of August 24th and 25th at the Showground with organisers promising fun for the whole family. This year’s main attraction will be the […]

A row’s blown up after Desborough Councillors agreed to give £150,000 to a charity which is hoping to buy the town’s library. An extraordinary general meeting was held last week to decide whether Desborough Town Council should hand over the cash to Desborough Library and Community Hub – the charity set up to take over […]

A vet has been suspended for four months for kicking and stamping on a dog after it bit him at the Vets4Pets Practice in Market Harborough. Dr Jatinder Dhami attacked the Staffordshire bull terrier in November 2017, after the pet was taken to the practice, inside Pets At Home at the Springfield Retail Park, for […]

Two men are still being questioned by Police after reports a teenager was being held against his will at a house in Kibworth Harcourt. The 18 and 19-year-olds were arrested by armed officers at the address in Barnard’s Way yesterday morning. Police say the 16 year old victim was located inside safe and well. A  […]

Harborough Police Sergeant Pete Jelbert is taking on a big fundraising challenge this weekend – an Ultra Marathon! It will see him running 32 miles tomorrow and 30 on Sunday . Pete, from Market Harborough, has taken part in a number of runs over the years to raise cash for charity but this will be […]

Police have released a CCTV image of a man after a vehicle in Desborough was badly damaged when it was deliberately scratched. They want to speak to him about the incident that happened on Burdoch Way on Sunday, June 16th, at about 1.10am. Anyone with information should call officers in Northamptonshire on 101.

Free Yoga sessions in Market Harborough’s Welland Park are proving a hit. Between 80 and 90 people are regularly turning up to them on Saturday mornings. Paul Hodgetts from East Farndon leads them – he runs yoga sessions across the area through his company Two Breaths More. The sessions, for all ages and abilities, run […]

A teenage solider killed in action during World War One has been honoured after a street in his home village of Fleckney was named after him. Private Alonza Garner, who was a member of the Leicestershire Regiment, was just 19 when he died in Flanders, Belgium, in 1917, whilst charging an enemy patrol. Garner Way […]

Police have carried out a road safety operation in Market Harborough which has seen over 20 drivers facing fines. They were stopped for offences including using a mobile phone and not wearing a seatbelt. One man was also dealt with for possessing cannabis. Graham Compton from Leicestershire Police spoke to Hfm on Springfield Street, where […]