Author: HFM News

Work is to begin to transform play areas across Harborough, at a cost of £250,000. State-of-the-art new equipment will be installed by Harborough Council, aimed at providing sensory, educational and fitness play, as well as being accessible to disabled children. Those most in need of refurbishment will be improved first, including on Roman Way, Burford […]

Harborough teenagers are to be shown a new hard-hitting film about the dangers of online grooming through computer game forums. ‘Breck’s Last Game’ is about the death of Breck Bednar, who was murdered in Essex in 201,4 by a man he’d spent months talking to online. It’s been produced by four Police forces, including Leicestershire […]

Firefighters are warning lives are being put at risk by bad parking, after appliances from Market Harborough and Desborough were unable to get down streets. Luckily both weren’t on emergency calls at the time, during the separate incidents over the past few days, although if they were, would have lost vital minutes in getting to […]

Market Harborough has won a Gold award at this year’s East Midlands In Bloom competition. The town came second overall in the Large Town category, beaten to the top spot by Boston in Lincolnshire, by just a single point. Harborough In Bloom were handed extra awards for the floral displays in Welland Park, judged as […]

The go-ahead could be given next week to demolish the former Cottage Hospital in Market Harborough, to make-way for a 70-bedroom care home. Planning Officers are recommending councilors grant planning permission for the development on the Coventry Road site. The proposal by Sterling Rose Care retains the World War One Memorial and Portico in situ […]

Police are appealing for information after expensive mountain bikes were stolen in Market Harborough. A white and red Trek-branded bike, with distinctive blue pedals, was taken from the garage of a house in Tymecrosse Gardens, and a blue Carrera bike was taken from outside a house in near-by Coales Gardens. Police believe the same thieves […]

A thank you letter written by Princess Diana exactly five weeks before she died has sold at auction in Market Harborough today for £2,500. The buyer was an anonymous internet bidder from the UK, although a number of people bid in person at Gildings, as well as others on-line from across the world. Diana sent […]

A burglar has been jailed for six years after leaving a pair of his shorts at a house he’d broken into in Fleckney. Matthew Ryan was arrested a few days after stealing items including jewellery and an Xbox from the home on Saddington Road in July. Leicester Crown Court heard the 42-year-old, of no fixed […]

A safe route for pedestrians and cyclists is finally set to be built between Lubenham and Market Harborough, in memory of a 13- year-old boy who was killed while cycling to school. The family of Adam Mugridge have been campaigning tirelessly for it since the tragedy just over 12 years ago, when the youngster was […]

Regular speed checks are to be carried out in East Farndon after over 22,000 vehicles were found to be breaking the 30mph limit through the village in two weeks. Northamptonshire Police erected monitoring equipment following concerns from residents about speeding traffic, to see if regular checks needed to be carried out. 85% of vehicles were […]