Author: HFM News

Leicestershire Police and Leicestershire Trading Standards have carried out a week long campaign aimed at disrupting and stopping rogue traders and aggressive doorstep sellers. ‘Operation Rogue Trader’ targeted those people who choose to exploit their customers, often the elderly and vulnerable, by doing low quality or dangerous work often charging inflated prices and bullying or […]

The next phase of the major upgrade of Market Harborough Railway Station and the railway leading to it has begun. Work has started to dig out the new track bed to straighten the line through the station and to strengthen bridges in the town as part of the Line Speed Improvement Project. It’ll mean no […]

October Fest returns to Market Harborough this weekend, featuring a ‘World Village Market’ on the Town Square. Live entertainment, seasonal activities and a Craft Beer Festival will accompany the three-day market on the adjacent Commons Car Park. Visitors can expect to savour a diverse selection of local and international street foods including pork or chicken […]

Racist graffiti has appeared in ‘Market Harborough. A swastika with the numbers ‘666’ was daubed on the top of a wooden post in the car park off Symington Way, behind the Symington Building, yesterday. Concerned members of the public reported it and Harborough Council. who removed it earlier this morning. It’s been treated as a […]

Calls are being made for streetlights to be switched back on overnight on estates in Market Harborough and surrounding villages, as thieves continue to target vans. Victims who have seen tools and other items stolen have told Hfm there is more chance of the criminals being noticed if lights were on during the early hours. […]

Questions are being asked as to why two key routes in and out of Market Harborough have been allowed to be closed to traffic at the same time. Kettering Road is shut at the railway bridge for two weeks for Network Rail work to strengthen it, connected with the upgrade of the tracks. And Leicester […]

A masked robber armed with a knife threatened staff at the Kibworth Convenience Store this afternoon, but fled empty-handed. He went into the Premier Express shop on Fleckney Road and demanded money from the till. Eyewitnesses have told Hfm he was seen running from the scene with the knife still in his hand, wearing a […]

Security is to be upgraded a Market Harborough Railway Station, with the installation of a new state-of-the-art CCTV system. Network Rail has announced the plan to replace aging cameras and install additional ones. It needs permission from the Council first though, as the historic station complex is a listed building.

Callous thieves have caused thousands of pounds of damage to a mobile resource centre, used by the LOROS charity to support cancer sufferers and their families across Leicestershire. Known as the ‘Loros Local’ it was targeted while was parked at the charity’s base in Groby Road, Leicester, with the entire exhaust system stolen. It’ll cost […]

The company that owns the Harborough Mail has put itself up for sale amid declining readerships and advertising revenue. Johnston Press, which operates 200 local and regional newspapers across the country, including the Northants Telegraph, Northampton Chronicle & Echo and national daily the ‘i’ says it has taken the decision after failing to put together […]