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A schools’ Academy Trust says it will face tough choices and difficult decisions over the next few years because of funding pressures. Discovery School Academy Trust runs Farndon Fields in Market Harborough and Kibworth Primary Schools, plus 11 others across Leicestershire and Rutland. It says increasing staff costs because of wage rises and pension contributions […]

A Market Harborough pub has been refused permission to change signage and lighting outside. Harborough Council say the move at the Kings Head on Church Street would have an adverse impact on the grade 2 listed premises, which lies in a conservation area. Planning officers have refused an application for the change, which would have […]

Market Harborough-based fashion retailer Joules has named a senior executive at Asda as its the new Chief Executive. Nick Jones will join the company from his position as a member of the supermarket’s executive board, where he is responsible for the performance of the grocer’s trading divisions across food, general merchandise and George. Mr Jones, who […]

A planning application is being prepared for a new car and coach park in Market Harborough town centre. It’s after the Council completed the purchase of a parcel of land adjacent to the Market Hall Car Park off Northampton Road from supermarket Sainsburys. There would be spaces for coaches and around 30 cars if permission […]

People say they are being turned away from the walk-in Urgent Care Centre at the St Luke’s Hospital in Market Harborough. A number have told HFM they have arrived to be told they need an appointment before they can be seen, which needs to be booked via the NHS 111 number. Some have then travelled […]

Harborough Councillor Phil Knowles will continue as leader as the Opposition Liberal Democrat group on Harborough Council. It follows last week’s election that saw the party increase their majority on the authority by two seats. Cllr Knowles, who has served on the Council since 2010, received unanimous backing from fellow group members for him to […]

A motorcyclist has been left with life-changing injuries after a head-on collision with a car yesterday afternoon near Cold Ashby. The female rider was airlifted to hospital from the scene on West Haddon Road following the crash that happened just after 3.30. Northamptonshire Police say the bike crossed onto the wrong side of the road […]

Burglars have caused hundreds of pounds worth of damage after smashing part of a stained glass window to get into All Saints Church in Scraptoft. It happened sometime last night or in the early hours of today. Harborough Police say it not thought anything was stolen from inside the church although there will be a […]

Fourteen people have been jailed for a total of 69 years after a teenager was shot at the Greenfields Travellers site, between Great Oxendon and Braybrooke, in 2016. It follows two trials, which we can only now report on, due to legal restrictions. The 17-year old-boy suffered life changing injuries in the shoot-out, including punctured […]

A teenager has been given a suspended jail term for his part in a savage attack on a taxi driver in Kibworth, that left him with a smashed eye-socket, jaw and cheekbone. Joe Connors, 19, and a second man, who has not been traced, attacked the male driver outside the Railway Arms late on August […]