Author: HFM News

Drivers are complaining not enough is being done to mitigate the closure of Rockingham Road by the railway bridge. There were long queues over the weekend on diversion routes and calls are today being made for temporary traffic lights to be placed by the Kettering Road bridge, to ensure traffic can flow more easily in […]

Leicester have announced there will be a statue built outside the King Power Stadium to honour the club’s late owner, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha. Mr Srivaddhanaprabha and four other people were killed when his helicopter crashed outside the stadium on October 27th. “We will never be able to repay what he did for us – for me […]

A number of extra tributes are being paid in Market Harborough this weekend, to mark 100 years since the end of World War One. John Morley, President of the Market Harborough branch of the Royal British Legion, spoke to Hfm’s Nick Shaw, to explain:     KEY EVENTS Saturday November 10th 3pm – Act Of […]

Rockingham Road in Market Harborough has closed today at the railway bridge, for the next eleven days. It’s so work to strengthen the structure can take place, as part of the upgrade of the railway through town. Pedestrian access will be maintained at all times during the closure. Buses are replacing all train services from […]

Free parking will be offered in Market Harborough on every Saturday through December, in a bid to encourage people to shop local. They’ll be a slight change this year though, with a maximum stay of four hours in Harborough Council’s short-term car-parks, in a bid to stop people using them to then catch the train […]

Burglars have caused damage and stolen food items after forcing their way into outbuildings at Foxton Locks. They targeted the main Boiler House Museum store, a toilet building and tool shed late or Saturday or during the early hours of yesterday, by smashing locks. Volunteers spent four hours replacing locks and repairing damage that was […]

The Deputy Commander of Harborough Police is joining calls for the streetlights to be switched back-on overnight in our town estates and villages. It follows another spate of van break-ins in Market Harborough, Fleckney and Great Glen. Sergeant Kev Manship cites a recent study by the College of Policing which found that having street lighting […]

Tributes are being paid by people across Harborough to those killed in the helicopter crash outside Leicester City’s ground on Saturday night. Club owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha died, along with two of his staff members, the pilot and his girlfriend. Football fans are continuing to gather outside the King Power Stadium, laying tributes to the Thai billionaire. […]

Around 80 horses that were fly-grazing without permission on the Market Harborough Showground have been moved by their owner. The Leicestershire Agricultural Society – who run the site – say just five of the animals – remain and they are due to be moved soon.     Concerns had been raised next year’s County Show […]

Call handlers have been given extra training following a tragic accident that claimed the life of a Market Harborough woman, who was struck by a police van – the driver of which was searching for her. An inquest jury has concluded Helen Loveday’s death in Norfolk last year was an accident. The hearing heard officers […]