Author: HFM News

Fire crews were called to assist the Ambulance service dealing with an emergency at a house in Market Harborough today. East Midlands Ambulance Service were called to a property on Fairway just before midday after a person had suffered a fall. Fire crews from Market Harborough and the Southern fire stations were deployed to assist […]

It has been confirmed a company set-up by Harborough Council paid £3.8m to buy land and building in Market Harborough Town Centre. Harborough District Commercial Services Ltd bought the premises home to Tesco and B&M in March, together with flats above them. There are no firm proposals for the site, but bosses are set to […]

A driver was caught speeding at nearly 100mph on the A6 between Kibworth and Great Glen yesterday afternoon. Police carried out a speed enforcement operation following concerns about how fast some cars are travelling on the bypass. One driver was clocked going at 96mph – another at 91 and a number over 85mph. Speeding tickets […]

The Harborough District’s new Local Plan was adopted at a Council meeting last night. It details where new homes, business units and amenities will go between now and 2031. Land for just under 4,000 new homes are identified in it, in addition to those which have already received planning permission, including 1,078 in Market Harborough, […]

A man was arrested in Market Harborough yesterday as part of a Police operation targeting County Lines drug dealing. The 41-year-old from Kettering was held after officers stopped a car on St Mary’s Road and he tested positive for cocaine, when a road-side drugs test was carried out. He’s been released under investigation.  

A new solar farm has opened in Husbands Bosworth. Over 500 solar panels have been installed in fields off Sibbertoft Road, in a project by Harborough Energy and a company based there, NBJ Joinery. The not-for-profit co-operative teamed up with the firm for the project, which will help reduce their reliance of using electricity from […]

A government planning inspector has ruled houses can’t be built on a park area used by villagers in Church Langton. Although Harborough Council threw out the proposal last year, owners of the land The Diocese of Leicester, challenged the decision. The Inspector’s agreed putting up five homes on land at the back of the Hanbury […]

Police have deployed a drugs dog at The Kibworth School in a bid to detect any illegal substances being taken in. It saw the dog, trained to sniff out everything from cannabis to ecstasy tablets, walking around the grounds as students arrived for their first day back after the Easter break yesterday, and as they […]

An elderly man says he has been left angry and upset after burglars stole his collection of model trains. The intruders got into his home in Stonegill Court, Great Glen, between 10pm and 11pm last Tuesday, taking 11 of the Hornby and Bachmann models. The man was in the property at the time, although was […]

Kettering Road in Market Harborough is being made one-way to traffic as the next phase of works to replace water pipes begin. Drivers will only be able travel up the road towards the A6, from the junction with Gores Lane, from today, with traffic stopped from turning left off the A6 at Clack Hill. The […]