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A Market Harborough environmental campaigner has hit out at the Prime Minister’s decision to delay some climate change pledges. A ban on new petrol and diesel cars and phasing out gas boilers has been put back by five years, while landlords will no no longer have to meet energy efficiency targets by April 2025. Rishi […]

Market Harborough’s In Bloom volunteers are being congratulated after winning the East Midlands In Bloom competition for the second year running. The dedicated team won a gold award as they were crowned winners of the Large Town category of the contest once again. Dozens of people have congratulated the team on HFM’s Facebook page after […]

Market Harborough has won the East Midlands In Bloom competition for the second year running. The town’s In Bloom volunteers were handed a gold award and crowned winners of the Large Town category of the contest at the results ceremony in Lincolnshire this afternoon. The big win follows the visit of competition judges in July. […]

Residents in Great Easton have been left without a Post Office after the village shop closed down. The shop on High Street was temporarily closed during August for a refurbishment and its doors are now shut again. A Post Office spokesperson told HFM: “The shop where Great Easton Post Office was based has closed. “The […]

Harborough District Council is demanding water companies are made to come clean about the amount of sewage being dumped into rivers. Official figures show it flowed into waterways across Harborough for over 2,700 hours last year, with 479 separate incidents, although the exact amount of sewage involved is not revealed. In Market Harborough, sewage discharged […]

A man has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving after Sunday’s fatal crash on the A427 in Brampton Ash. His passenger, a woman aged in her 20s, died when the black 52-plate Mini Cooper left the road and went down an embankment, before colliding with a fence and coming to rest […]

Police say no-one was seriously injured after a crash in a residential street on Desborough. Emergency services were called to Ironwood Avenue on the Grange estate just after 5pm yesterday, following the collision involving a black Volkswagen and a white Mercedes. Other vehicles were also damaged in the incident. A spokesperson for Northamptonshire Fire and […]

Plans have been announced to convert a historic building on Northampton Road in Market Harborough into five flats. Developers are seeking permission to carry out the work inside the grade two-listed building at the Springfield Street junction. The building dates back to the 1860’s and has most recently been used as offices, although over the […]

A Market Harborough primary school has been found to contain concrete which is at risk of collapsing. The school hall and kitchen at St Joseph’s Catholic Voluntary Academy on Coventry Road have been cordoned off, after Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) was discovered in the building, although the school remains fully open to pupils. The […]

A decision on if the Harborough District will take on housing earmarked for Leicester has been delayed. Councillors were due to decide last night, but following representation from the area’s three Members of Parliament, who say there is no legal requirement for such a measure, it has been put back until November. The meeting of […]