Author: HFM News

Santa isbeginning his tour of Market Harborough tonight, thanks to his team of helpers from the 3rd Market Harborough Scouts. He’ll be visiting as many streets as possible in the run-up to Christmas. It’s the 50th year the Scouts have run the traditional sleigh and people are once again being asked to give generously. Just […]

A woman’s been charged after its alleged she stole groceries worth over £400 from Waitrose in Market Harborough last night. Donna Hughes, 48, from Culross Walk, Corby, was arrested on St Mary’s Road shortly after the incident at the supermarket on Springfield Street. She will appear before Magistrates accused of theft.

Work that was to see the main road between Great Bowden and Market Harborough shut overnight, every Saturday from tomorrow for two months, has been postponed. Highway bosses say due to ‘unforeseen circumstances,’ the closures for work on the Railway Bridge, won’t now begin until January 12th.

Landowners have abandoned their plan to build 65 new homes at the top of Kettering Road in Market Harborough. They have withdrawn an appeal lodged with the government, after the proposal was rejected last year by Harborough Council. It means meaning a planning inquiry, that was scheduled for January, will now not take place. Councillors […]

A campaign to encourage people to shop local during the run-up to Christmas is launching in Market Harborough. A Christmas Market is on The Square which has been organised in a bid to bring extra shoppers into town. Free parking on every Saturday through December begins tomorrow in Harborough Council’s car parks. People are reminded […]

Market Harborough has won the Best Town Award at the Leicestershire Tourism and Hospitality Awards. The Chamber of Trade and Commerce put together the entry and beat off competition from towns across the county, to be handed the title at a ceremony last night. The vibrancy of Harborough, great mix of independent retailers, community spirit […]

A drink driver has been banned from the roads for a year and fined £180 after his DNA was found on the airbag of his crashed car. It ended up in a ditch on the A6, near to the Kibworth Tip, on January 20th and Police were called. Leicester Magistrates heard Scott Goodwin, 40, of […]

Work on a long-awaited and much-needed footbridge over the railway in Little Bowden has stopped because a key piece of permission for it hasn’t been given. Although the structure is in place, groundworks still need to be completed. A legal notice to change the public right of way from the previous path across the tracks between […]

Two controversial housing developments in Market Harborough could be given the go-ahead next week. 128 new homes at Burnmill Farm off Kingston Way and 57 off Angell Drive on the Farndon Fields Estate are being recommended for approval by planning officers. Concerns over drainage led the Burnmill Farm plan being put on hold in September […]

£100,000 is being made available to tackle increasing knife crime in Leicestershire. The cash will be offered to organisations working to turn around the lives of those who wield weapons. The County’s Police and Crime Commissioner Willy Bach is behind the move, which will also see £10,000 spent on placing special ‘Catastrophic Hemorrhage Packs’ in […]