Author: HFM News

Nine out of ten children across Leicestershire have secured a place at their first choice primary or infant school. 90.3% have been offered their preferred option, 5.2% their second choice and 1.6% their third. More than 7,500 applications were received – an increase of 3.9 per cent pupils compared to last year. A total of […]

An independent Planning Inspector has given the go-ahead for Harborough Council to adopt its Local Plan. It maps out where development – including thousands of new homes will be built over the next 12 years. It includes just over 1,100 in Market Harborough, 2,700 in Lutterworth and 295 in Fleckney. The move follows a period […]

A drug dealer has been jailed for ten years after Class A drugs worth £100,000 were found by Police at a house in Scraptoft, along with a revolver. Liam Chambers, admitted possessing heroin and crack cocaine with intent to supply and possessing a firearm. Leicester Crown Court heard he was arrested after his DNA and […]

A man has been charged with assaulting a Market Harborough business owner in her beauty salon. Helen Walker suffered facial injuries during the incident at The Beauty Lounge on The Square on November 20th last year. Police have charged Simon Thraves, 46,  of no fixed abode, with assault – he is due before Magistrates on […]

Over 20 independent shops in Market Harborough have teamed up to mark Easter with a fun competition! Each has hidden a ceramic bunny somewhere inside their store with a unique number on. Starting today, youngsters are being invited to hunt for them and then hand in entry forms to any participating shop to win an […]

Environmental campaigners held a protest outside the HSBC Bank in Market Harborough on Saturday. They took in the nationwide ‘Big Shift’ campaign, run by charity Christian Aid, which is pushing for less use of fossil fuels. The campaign says HSBC is to invest billions in coal power energy projects in countries vulnerable to the effects […]

A charity dance-a-thon in a support of a Market Harborough dance teacher battling cancer raised just short of £900 on Saturday. Sophie Williams, who has been in isolation in hospital, even managed to a surprise visit to the Welland Park Academy to see some of it, after doctors took her off her drips and allowed […]

Volunteers who run Market Harborough’s Foodbank are appealing for more donations. They are  struggling to cope with demand for the service, which in the past year has seen referrals increase by 54 per cent – with over 1700 people helped. Latest figures show in the first two months of this year over 3,000 meals were […]

A Market Harborough woman is to celebrate her 40th Birthday by walking around London in the dark to raise cash for Breast Cancer Charities. Jackie Taylor is taking part in the WalktheWalk MoonWalk London 2019 on May 11th together with a team of four others. She’ll walk the distance of a marathon, 26.2 miles, overnight, […]

People interested in becoming an on-call firefighter in Market Harborough can find out more tomorrow at a ‘Have A Go Day.’ It is taking place at the fire station between 10am and 3pm, where they’ll be the chance to find out more about the job from current crews and try the recruitment job tests. On-Call […]