Author: HFM News

Work is getting underway to build two retirement complexes in Market Harborough. One off Rockingham Road is going up on land adjacent to Meadowdale Primary School’s sports hall, and will include 58 apartments. The other will be built on the old Travis Perkins site on Clarence Street, where 44 sheltered-housing apartments will be created, within […]

Average cameras come into operation this week through the village of Walote on the A4304 between Market Harborough and Lutterworth. Unlike fixed cameras, they measure the speed of vehicles entering the village and then exiting – those exceeding the 30 limit will be fined. Leicestershire County Council has installed them as more drivers speed through […]

Market Harborough’s Ambulance Station is close to being sold to a property developer for over £1m. The Leicester Road base has been on the market for the last five months and is now under offer. East Midlands Ambulance Service is selling the building, together with the 1.3 acres of land outside, as crews will move […]

Two men have been jailed for life after being found guilty of the murder of Leicester jeweller Ramniklal Jogiya, whose body was dumped near Stoughton. Thomas Jervis, 24, and Charles Mcauley, 20, were both sentenced to life imprisonment today after being found guilty of the 74-year-old’s murder. Jervis was ordered to serve a minimum of […]

A former worker at Kibworth Post Office has escaped jail after defrauding the business out of nearly £30,000. Dawn Powell, 30, was instead given a two year suspended prison sentence when she appeared before Leicester Crown Court earlier and ordered to repay £10,000 at the rate of £300 a month. She admitted defrauding the Post Office […]

Network Rail have finally begun work today to build a long-awaited footbridge over the railway in Little Bowden. The bridge – which should be up by the middle of December – will link Glebe Road with Braybrooke Road, and replace a pedestrian crossing over the tracks, which was shut in 2015, after being deemed a […]

Flytippers have dumped what is thought to be asbestos on a country lane and building materials at the side of a Market Harborough car park. What looks like sheets of corrugated asbestos roofing is in one of two heaps left at the side of Covert Lane in Scraptoft, which has become a hotspot for illegal […]

A man has been charged with assault after an incident in Market Harborough town centre late on Saturday. He was arrested after Police were called to reports of a disturbance at the Sugar Loaf pub on the High Street, just before midnight. The assault on another man, who officers say suffered minor injuries, is alleged […]

Dogs are banned from The Sugar Loaf pub in Market Harborough from today. Owner JD Wetherspoon is enforcing the rule at all of its pubs. Managers believe even well-behaved ones can be unpredictable – and many younger children are scared of them. The chain says it’s actually had the rule for years – but has […]

Hundreds of people have signed a petition calling on Highways England to reinstate suicide prevention notes on the A14 bridge at Rothwell. There has been an angry backlash after the ‘Notes Of Hope’ were removed last week, when they were deemed a distraction to drivers. Containing helpline numbers and inspirational messages, they were the work […]