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Major work costing over £1m has started today to renovate and restore parts of Market Harborough’s historic Symington Building. The nine-month project will see repairs to external masonry, the roof and bell tower of the Victorian building on Adam and Eve Street and windows will also be replaced. Scaffolding is being erected on the front […]

Drivers have been left frustrated that no work has been taking place on the A6 in Kibworth despite a lane being closed causing lengthy delays. Temporary traffic lights have been in place near the entrance to the tip on Harborough Road since late last week, but there was no sign of any workers from Severn […]

Senior councillors say a new prison near Market Harborough should be called ‘The Gove’. Council leader Phil Knowles and his Liberal Democrat colleague Cllr Jo Asher have put forward the tongue-in-cheek suggestion, after HFM revealed the Ministry of Justice is to ask members of the community to suggest names for the jail. It was former […]

Youngsters from Market Harborough joined serving soldiers and veterans on a parade through Kettering yesterday. More than a thousand cadets from Northamptonshire, Leicestershire and Rutland were part of the big event, organised so members of the Royal Anglian Regiment could exercise their Freedom of the town. Members of Market Harborough Sea Cadets were among those […]

A donkey stable in Great Glen has been destroyed by fire. Luckily the three donkeys kept at the site were not in the building when the blaze broke out just after 10am yesterday. Video: Reach Three fire crews were called to the scene behind the Italian Greyhound pub on London Road to tackle the flames. […]

A pet skunk that went missing from her owner’s home in Braybrooke on two occasions last year is on the run again. Jayne McLaughlin is appealing for sightings of Dominika, who was previously located in Little Bowden and ten miles away from her home in Corby. It is thought Dominika may have returned to those […]

Two large hanging baskets planted by Market Harborough in Bloom have been stolen. They were taken within a couple of hours of being delivered to the rear of Denise’s Hair Fashions on The Square this morning, ahead of being put up at the front of the building, shared with the PDSA charity. The salon’s owner […]

A colourful cavalcade of boats will make its way down Foxton’s famous flight of locks tomorrow as part of a special canal festival. The two-day event will celebrate the historic role Leicestershire’s waterways played in the renaissance of the nation’s canal network 75 years ago. The flotilla will head to Union Wharf in Market Harborough, […]

Councils in the HFM region are set to undergo an Elon Musk-style review into their spending. Reform UK will send specialist teams in to Leicestershire County Council, North Northamptonshire Council and West Northamptonshire Council after taking control of the authorities following last month’s elections. The party has set up a unit to look into ‘wasteful […]

A Market Harborough shop owner who chased a thief has spoken of her relief that he is now behind bars. Rose Jarvis pursued Kyle Slaney after he grabbed her day’s takings of £500 from the till at Hanworth hat shop on Adam and Eve Street on April 30th. The 39-year old, who got away but […]