Author: HFM

Residents in a Harborough village are being invited to get involved in marking the centenary of the end of World War One in dramatic style  – with a “poppy cascade” from their church tower.   Great Bowden Parish Church is planning the giant display from the 1st to the 18th of November – to honour […]

Campaigners petitioning to save two Market Harborough bus services from the axe say there’ll be no let up in their efforts – in the wake of another key route being spared.   Last week, passengers learned the number 58 Lutterworth bus will now continue after Leicestershire County Council stepped in with the cash to subsidise […]

If you live or work in the Lutterworth area, police are asking you to keep your eyes peeled for a missing 82-year-old man with Alzheimers. A public search of the town yesterday failed to find him.   Peter Coyne, who is from Stockport, was last seen at the address of a family member in Riverside […]

The National Grid says it’s pleased to have received the go ahead to build a new electricity substation in Braybrooke – having been granted planning permission by Kettering Borough Council.   The substation will provide power supplies to a proposed new trackside feeder station – which Network Rail says it needs as part of its […]

Plans to decommission 21 Northamptonshire Libraries have been put on hold pending the outcome of a public hearing late next month.   After the news that Desborough Library was set to be closed for good at the end of August, solicitors acting on behalf of the family of a young girl, who regularly uses the […]

The vast majority of residents who voted on whether or not to adopt their village Neighbourhood Plans have said “yes”!   Two referenda were held yesterday – in Great Bowden and East Langton – with the Count then taking place in the District Council Chamber.   Great Bowden approved theirs by 343 votes to 15 […]