Author: HFM News

The chief executive of one of Market Harborough’s biggest employers – Joules – is set to step down after eight years. Colin Porter will leave the fashion retailer to retire within the next year. The announcement comes after Joules, which employs 400 people at its head office bases at The Point Business Park, continued to […]

Police are appealing for witnesses after a boy aged 11 was hit by a car in Desborough. The youngster was taken to Birmingham Children’s Hospital by Air Ambulance following the collision on Harborough Road at 3.40pm on Friday. Officers say the boy’s injuries aren’t believed to be life-changing. They are keen to hear from anyone who […]

A motorcyclist has died after a crash on the B6047 yesterday morning. The male rider’s black BMW R9 bike was involved in collision with a white VW Transporter camper van on Melton Road near Lowesby, east of Tilton On The Hill at 9.40am. He was taken to University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire by air ambulance, […]

Opening hours at Market Harborough’s Urgent Care Centre are reduced from today. The evening minor injuries and illness service at the St Luke’s Treatment Centre will now open an hour and a half later during week – at 6.30pm. Local health bosses say it isn’t well used during that time period, when GP surgeries are […]

A new company has taken over the running of Market Harborough and Lutterworth Leisure Centres today. ‘Everyone Active,’ which already operates centres in other parts of Leicestershire and Northamptonshire, will run them for at least the next three years. The firm is taking on all staff that were employed by Serco – who has operated […]

A green area of Kibworth Beauchamp is to be transformed thanks to cash developers have had to pay for trespassing on the land. New fencing will be erected and shrubs and trees planted in the play area on Melbourne Close at a cost of £2,500. The Parish Council is funding it through a ‘penalty payment’ […]

A long-awaited new footbridge over the railway in Little Bowden has finally opened today, meaning two sides of the village are connected once again. It has been nearly four years since the well-used light-controlled pedestrian crossing linking Glebe Road with Braybrooke Road was closed by Network Rail, after being deemed a safety risk. The bridge […]

The plan to build a new specialist care home on the site of Market Harborough’s Ambulance Station has moved forward. Developers have handed in a planning application to demolish the aging building to make way for the 76-bedroom three-storey facility. East Midlands Ambulance Service is selling the Leicester Road site for around £1m, with crews […]

Developers are to fight for the right to build 130 new homes on the edge of Fleckney. They were refused permission to build the estate on land east of Fleckney Road on the Saddington side of the village last year, on the grounds it would harm the landscape and impact the surrounding countryside. But Gladman […]

Volunteers have sprung into action to repair football pitches at the Symington’s Recreation Ground in Market Harborough, that were damaged when ‘boy-racers’ drove onto them. It means training and games for over 100 youngsters at Borough Alliance FC can take place as normal this weekend. Large areas of the grass were churned up after cars […]