Author: HFM News

People throwing litter out of vehicles could now be caught on camera and fined as a new vehicle to help tackle environmental crime across the Harborough District hits the road. The 4×4 –equipped with recording cameras – will also be used to access hard to reach fly-tipping hotspot areas and where abandoned vehicles are dumped. […]

Harborough businesses are being urged to sign up to take part in this year’s Bake-Off. The fundraising event takes place on September 28th in support of Macmillan Cancer Support. As well as having the chance to be crowned the town’s best business baker, staff are being urged to sell their cakes to boost the fund, […]

Calls will be made later for Harborough Council to expand its CCTV network. A motion will be considered at tonight’s Full Council meeting for a full review into the current surveillance system, and how it can be expanded to cover other areas in Market Harborough, like Welland Park and the Symington’s Rec, plus other parts […]

A woman was injured after the car she was driving overturned into a ditch near Arnesby. Emergency services, including the Air Ambulance, were called to Fleckney Lane at 11.15am yesterday. Firefighters cut the driver out of the wreckage and she was taken to hospital by land ambulance, with what Police describe as ‘minor injuries.’   […]

Police have seized an uninsured car after a 16-year old-boy was caught driving it in Market Harborough. Officers stopped the Audi A5 convertible on Northampton Road, just before 2pm on Saturday, following reports from concerned members of the public that the driver was ‘young-looking.’ Enquiries are continuing, before any action is taken again the teenager.

A special collection is being held in Market Harborough today and tomorrow to help raise funds for serving and ex-servicemen and women. It’s to mark the start of the Wings Appeal, run by the Royal Air Force Association. Members of the town’s branch are also be manning a stall in the Market Hall over the […]

A young woman has been charged with drink driving and obstructing a Police officer after a car crashed into a garden wall in Market Harborough early this morning. The 21-year-old was arrested after Police were called to the scene in Hammond Way just after 1.30am. Officers say four people were in the car, although no-one […]

A man’s been released by Police under investigation  after a security alert at a village school yesterday morning. He was arrested close to South Kilworth C of E Primary School just after 9am. Members of the public had disarmed a man who was carrying a knife. The school was put on lockdown for a time […]

A protest by over 200 Prison Officers at HMP Gartree over violence and safety concerns have been called off. They joined thousands of colleagues across England and Wales, walking out at 7am. Their union says it’s had “constructive” talks with the government – which described the action as unlawful. Attacks on guards at Gartree have doubled […]

Signs are to be put up on the A14 bridge at Rothwell in a bid to stop suicides. Highways England will install them following mass outcry after so-called ‘notes of hope’ placed on the railings there by a group of friends were removed, when they were deemed a distraction to drivers. Four signs – which […]