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Springfield Street in Market Harborough will be closed to traffic for six nights from Monday, so carriageway patching work can take place. It will be shut between 8pm and 6am each day, along with a small stretch of Northampton Road at the junction, with diversions signposted. There will also be no parking on the road […]

The principal of Market Harborough’s Robert Smyth Academy is praising the way students, staff and parents have adapted to learning from home. All students are having on-line lessons because of lockdown, apart from a small number, including children of keyworkers, who are still going to school. Dan Cleary told Hfm he couldn’t be more pleased […]

Hundreds of people are getting their second dose of the Pfizer Coronavirus vaccine in Market Harborough today and tomorrow. The Market Harborough Medical Centre is running another vaccination clinic for people who had the first jab last month. the majority aged 80 and over. Just under 1,000 injections are set to be administered at the […]

An elderly man has died after it is believed he fell ill while driving in Market Harborough. Police and East Midlands Ambulance Service were called to Western Avenue at 10.30am, after a car collided with a bush outside the shops. A spokesperson for Leicestershire Police told Hfm: “Officers attended a single-car road traffic collision on […]

Firefighters were called to deal with a chimney fire at a house on Leicester Road in Kibworth Harcourt last night. The alarm was raised just before 5.30pm, with an on-call crew from Kibworth sent to deal with the fire, started by a log burner. Nobody was hurt and no major damage was caused. A spokesman […]

Market Harborough’s Waitrose store has been sold for £9.1m. The supermarket giant, which opened on Springfield Street in 2012, says the sale of the site to a real estate investment trust, says there will be no change from a customer point of view. A spokesman told Hfm: “We can confirm our landlord has sold their […]

Harborough District Council has offered the NHS the use of its Leisure Centres in Market Harborough and Lutterworth for Covid-19 vaccination centres. The authority made the gesture last month, ahead of the roll-out of the first vaccine, and Council Leader, Phil King, has told Hfm the offer ‘remains on the table,’ as the Oxford vaccine […]

An extra £600,000 of funding is being made available to support community groups across Harborough during the pandemic – taking the total to over £2m. The Leicestershire County Council fund was launched in March to ensure the groups could continue to carry out vital work, despite the impact coronavirus is having on their finances. Leader […]

Police are hunting a driver after a crash involving four vehicles on the B576 between Desborough and Rothwell yesterday evening. Officers say it happened on Desborough Road, when a car attempted to overtake a line of vehicles that had stopped because of temporary traffic lights near the Medical Centre. The driver then drove off from […]