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A young woman has been charged with drink-driving after a car overturned onto its roof on the outskirts of Market Harborough. Emergency services were called to the roundabout at the junctions of the A6/A427/A4304/Great Bowden at 2am yesterday. A woman who was trapped was released from the wreckage by firefighters, escaping with just minor injuries. Police say […]

A warning is being issued after two people nearly fell victim to a scam in Market Harborough, when they received phone calls from someone claiming to be a Police Officer. The caller said their bank accounts had been compromised and they needed to withdraw a large amount of cash to be collected and checked by […]

A Market Harborough pub has released CCTV footage to Hfm after three masked-men tried to break into the living accommodation. It shows them climbing onto the roof of the Royalist on Western Avenue at 7.20pm last Friday (January 25th) and using a crow-bar to try to force open windows, while the pub was busy. They are […]

Why do you love Market Harborough? That’s the question being asked by over 20 independent traders in town, who have teamed up to host the ‘#LOVEHARBS’ competition ahead of Valentine’s Day. The shops and businesses are all part of the newly formed ‘Harbs Collective’ launched to help promote their businesses more. Amber Lucas, manager at […]

Organisers of Market Harborough’s Arts Fresco hope the event will return this September, if enough funding can be secured. It costs around £40,000 to hold the free street arts festival in the town centre, featuring professional entertainers. Although it’s hoped grant funding towards that, at least two major sponsors are needed and other businesses need […]

Market Harborough’s Food and Drink Festival has won a national award! It has picked up the ‘Best Small Specialty Market’ title at the Great British Market Awards, held yesterday, beating off other entries from up and down the country. The event in Welland Park last August, organised by Harborough Council’s market team, was attended by […]

Harborough Town Football Club is launching a Football Academy. The club has teamed with an education provider to offer it to 16 to 18 year olds, which will see training delivered by FA coaches and them able to achieve a nationally-recognised qualification in sport. Marion Hayton, the club development & commercial manager at Harborough Town, […]

There are calls for CCTV to be installed on part of the Southern Estate in Market Harborough. It’s been prompted by yesterday’s theft of cash from the ATM machine on Western Avenue that was blown-up and an incident last Friday, when three masked men tried to force their way into living accommodation above the nearby […]

Questions are being asked why no work has taken place this week to complete repairs to a burst water main in Market Harborough. Severn Trent started to fix the problem on The Broadway last week after serious flooding. The company says it’s had to order in a specialist piece of equipment needed to complete the […]

A woman who was seriously injured in a crash near Pipewell, at the weekend, has sadly died. It happened at about 10.50am on Sunday, when a black Vauxhall Astra, travelling from Pipewell towards Great Oakley, came off the road, went through a hedge, overturned and came to rest in a field. The driver, a 36-year-old […]