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Police forces in the HFM region will receive just under £5m to bolster community policing. The allocations have been confirmed after the government confirmed plans to get more bobbies on the beat. Leicestershire Police has been awarded just under £3m to fund 35 additional police officers and 21 community support officers. The Northamptonshire force will […]

An inquest has opened into the deaths of three people who died in a house fire in Rushton last month. Four-year-old Mayci Fox and her 30-year-old mum Emma Conn from Desborough and 23-year-old Louie Thorn from Rushton tragically died in the blaze at the former station house on March 28th. Senior coroner Anne Pember opened […]

A campaign group fighting plans for a ‘new town’ near Great Glen is hosting a public meeting tonight. Around 300 people have said they will be attending, as concerns mount about the proposal for land at Stretton Hall. 6,000 new homes could be built across fields stretching towards Oadby, with 4,000 earmarked in the Harborough […]

Market Harborough Building Society is launching a ground-breaking initiative to support young people. The society is donating £250,000 to its Community Fund, which will help fund partnerships with charities and community groups through the new ‘Thrive Forward’ programme. It aims to support young people in the areas of mental health, financial capability and resilience, careers […]

A woman was arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life after a fire at a house in Market Harborough. Firefighters were called to the blaze in the kitchen of the property in Eady Drive, on the Blackberry Grange estate, on Tuesday afternoon. No-one was injured. A spokesperson for Leicestershire Police told HFM: […]

Market Harborough’s former Working Men’s Club is up for sale for £700,000. The premises on Northampton Road in the town centre, affectionately known as the ‘Bottom Club’ when it was a social club, is being marketed as office accommodation or ‘a potential residential conversion opportunity’. The club closed in 2010 and the two-storey building was […]

A family from Afghanistan has been housed in the Harborough District as part of a government re-settlement scheme. A man who was an interpreter for the British Army and his family have been welcomed to the area, after being evacuated when the Taliban took control of the country four years ago. The government’s Afghan Citizens […]

Police have released pictures of suspected stolen jewellery in the hope it can returned to its rightful owners. The six distinctive pieces were found in a car linked to burglaries in Welford and Kettering, after the driver crashed in Lutterworth following a police pursuit last month. Three men aged 40, 31 and 18, from Market […]

A charity busk by school children in Market Harborough raised nearly £1,000. Pupils from six primary schools took part in the five-hour musical fundraiser in St Mary’s Place, supported by professional acts. Crowds gathered to watch the performances last Friday and just short of £700 was raised for Cancer Research UK and £300 for the […]

A power surge has left residents in Market Harborough with damaged electrical appliances and broken boilers. It happened on the Farndale View estate, off Lubenham Hill on Monday morning and was caused by a fault with an underground cable. Radios and televisions were among other items damaged on the estate of over 50 homes. National […]