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One of Market Harborough’s most popular free events will return next month. The ‘Arts Fresco’ street theatre and arts festival will be held on Saturday September 13th. It will be the 24th year Arts Fresco has been held and will feature some of the UK’s best professional performers, alongside community performers at locations across the […]
Police believe a teenager last seen in Desborough may have travelled to London. Officers are concerned for the welfare of 16-year-old Alexis and have released a picture as they appeal for information as to her whereabouts. When Alexis was last seen on Friday (August 15th), she was wearing a black jumper and black shorts. She […]
Drivers are being warned one of the main routes in and out of Market Harborough will be closed for four nights next week. The stretch of Rockingham Road between Gores Lane and the Riverside industrial estate will be shut between 8pm and 6am from Tuesday evening. The closure is needed for on-going highway improvement work […]
Teenagers across Harborough are celebrating good GCSE results. The pass rate in core subjects has increased this year at Robert Smyth Academy, while students at Welland Park Academy have also achieved well. Pupils at Robert Smyth Academy told HFM how they had got on: The cohort of students had studies disrupted by Covid lockdowns and […]
A man was arrested and a machete and knife recovered after Police were called to a ‘public order incident’ in Market Harborough. Officers attended Pear Tree Gardens just after 9.30am on Sunday and later searched a section of the River Welland, where the knife was pulled from the water. The 22-year-old man was arrested on […]
A man jailed for causing the death of his girlfriend in a crash near Market Harborough has been captured after spending nearly two months on the run. Steven Gaskell was arrested in Sheffield in South Yorkshire on Saturday after he absconded from open prison HMP Sudbury in Derbyshire on June 19th. A nationwide hunt was […]
Plans to a reopen a village’s last remaining pub are a step closer now that refurbishment proposals have been submitted to North Northamptonshire Council. Despite being given ‘Asset of Community Value’ protection from speculative property developers, Grade 2 listed pub ‘The George’ in Ashley had suffered mixed fortunes before shutting its doors to customers yet […]
The deputy leader of Husbands Bosworth Parish Council says he was very disappointed by the lack of representation from Harborough District Council, Leicestershire County Council and various stakeholders at an important public meeting. Hosted by Alberto Costa MP, the meeting at Lutterworth College on Friday night (15th August) was arranged to discuss numerous major developments […]
Employees at the Market Harborough office of a leading property consultancy firm begin their leg of the company’s 2,400 mile fundraising relay today! Staff from Fisher German’s 25 UK offices are just past the halfway stage of a 25 week challenge to celebrate 25 years of the partnership by raising £25,000 for 25 charities. Participants […]
UPDATED: A motorcyclist who was involved in a collision in Lutterworth Road, North Kilworth on Saturday (16th August) has died in hospital. The incident happened at 2.50pm close to the entrance of Buckwell Lodge farm. It involved two vehicles – a black Ford Fiesta and a green Kawasaki ZX400. The driver of the car, a […]
