Author: HFM News

Great Bowden Parish Church is hosting its first ever Pet Service this Sunday morning, to celebrate the village’s love for animals. St Peter & St Paul’s is opening its doors to welcome pets big or small, together with their owners! They’ll be a mixture of fun activities for all get involved in. The service begins […]

A dedicated pathway for pedestrians from the road to the entrance of the St Luke’s Treatment Centre in Market Harborough is finally set to be put in place. NHS bosses promised last year one would be put in place, after safety concerns were expressed when the hospital building opened, with people on foot have to […]

The work of Market Harborough’s Street Pastors is being praised. The team of 18 volunteers from local churches patrol on Friday and Saturday nights, offering support to people out in the town centre. Since launching in 2009 they’ve helped over 4000 people, handed out over 600 lollipops, to help defuse potential aggressive situations, and provided […]

Michele Coleman, from Market Harborough, will take part in a big fundraiser this Sunday to help raise money in aid of the Alzheimer’s Society, a cause very close to her heart. In 2015, her Dad, Colin Boileau, was diagnosed with bladder cancer and a few months later with both Vascular Dementia and Alzheimer’s. He has […]

A public planning appeal hearing into whether a new housing estate can be built in Market Harborough has been delayed. It was due to be held next week by a government inspector, but will now take place at a later date. They will decide whether 65 houses can go up at the top of Kettering […]

A woman from East Langton threatened with jail has finally moved a mobile home that didn’t have planning permission. Harborough Council officials had been battling for over four years to get it shifted from Langton View Stables and eventually went to the High Court over the issue. The owner has moved it just days before […]

A Market Harborough firm has raised over £1200 to honour its founder, who was left seriously brain damaged after a sudden heart attack last year. Staff at the Ideal Marketing Company have marked its 15th birthday by taking part in a 15k walk, in aid of the British Heart Foundation. Alastair Campbell was 49 when […]

Time is standing still in Market Harborough, if you’re relying on the St Dionysius Church clock. A fault with the historic mechanism means its stopped along with the regular chiming. Church leaders say it’s been identified as a broken spring and a new one is now being specially made. They hope it will be ticking […]

Residents at the Edwin Court flats in Market Harborough say a Housing Association should be doing more to deal with so called ‘drugs flats’. Those living at the block on Kettering Road have told HFM they are fed up of it being labelled as a drugs den, saying the vast majority of residents are pleasant […]

‘Too much bling, give us a ring,’ is the message from Police today. The Leicestershire and Northamptonshire forces have teamed up to launch a new campaign in a bid take criminals’ cash, cars and other luxury property bought with their ill-gotten gains. It aims to encourage people to report those who appear to be living […]