Author: HFM News

There has been a massive response to this year’s Toys On The Table Appeal from people in and around Market Harborough. Over 1,000 new toys have been donated here at Hfm in the past few weeks. That is the highest amount ever at this point in the appeal, which aims to ensure around 4,000 disadvantaged […]

Tricksters posing as police officers have conned people into handing over more than £60,000 by telling them to pay bail for a relative to be released from custody. The gang, which contacts its targets by phone, claims the relative can only be released upon payment of ‘bail money’. They then persuade the victim to meet […]

A woman is in a serious condition in hospital after being hit by a car in Market Harborough last night. Emergency Services were called to Doddridge Road just before 6pm, following the collision close to the King’s Head Terrace junction. The 42-year-old was treated at the scene before being taken to the Walsgrave Hospital in […]

Police are appealing for information after man spat in the face of a woman at the Little Bowden Recreation Ground. The assault happened during an argument following an incident involving the victim’s dog at around 9.30am on Tuesday morning. Officers say the man – who had two small Jack Russell-type dogs with him – turned […]

We can expect another rise in our Council Tax bills next year. Leicestershire County Council is set to increase its share by 3.99%, which equates to just over £4 more a month for the average household. That would raise an additional £12m to support vulnerable people – £5m of that would be used to support […]

A fundraising drive has been set-up to help the pensioner who fell victim to heartless distraction thieves in Market Harborough. It follows Police today releasing a CCTV image of three people they want to speak to about the incident in the Waitrose Car Park last month. An anonymous local person appalled at what happened has […]

Leicester City Football Club is thanking all who placed messages in a book of condolence in Market Harborough following the helicopter crash. It’s sent a letter to the Council – which set-up the tribute in the Symington Building – after the tragedy in October. Leicester City chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, two of his staff Nursara Suknamai […]

Police have released a picture of two men and a woman they want to speak to after callous distraction thieves preyed on an elderly pensioner in Market Harborough last month. The lady, aged 83, had over £3,000 taken from her bank accounts after her purse was stolen from the boot of her car in the […]

Flats in Market Harborough are set to be demolished so affordable family housing can be built. Waterloo Housing Group has been handed planning permission for the redevelopment of ‘Rosehill’ off Leicester Road – adjacent to the ambulance station – which currently houses eight flats and was formally a children’s home. The building is  considered no […]

A guitar signed by some of the world’s leading musicians has sold for £7,000 at auction for Leicestershire’s Rainbows Children’s Hospice The Fender Stratocaster is embellished with signatures including Pete Townsend, Alice Cooper, Gary Moore, Don McLean, Eric Clapton, Brian May and Jimmy Page. The sale at Bonhams Auction House in London yesterday, to an […]