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A ward at St Luke’s Hospital in Market Harborough is to close for three months so major repairs and alterations can be carried out. A new roof will be fitted as part of the work at the Leicester Road site, which will begin on Monday and cost £575,000. New fire doors will also be installed […]

Eligible parents and carers across Harborough have until Saturday to apply for free childcare during the autumn term. For the first time children as young as nine months old will qualify under new government rules. You usually get either ‘15 or 30 hours’ per term-time week (a total of 570 or 1,140 hours per year) […]

Major restoration work is about to start on Market Harborough’s St Dionysius Church as a fundraising appeal is launched to help pay for it. Stonework on the exterior of the historic church needs to be restored at a cost of over £80,000 and scaffolding is in place ahead of the repairs getting underway. Some of […]

Owners of zombie-style knives and machetes are being urged to hand them in at Market Harborough Police Station before they become illegal. Leicestershire Police is supporting a month-long national amnesty before the new law comes into force on September 24th , in a move which aims to reduce the accessibility of some of the deadliest types […]

Harborough MP Neil O’Brien is demanding tenants at Roman Way Community Centre in Market Harborough are given extensions to their leases. They have been told to leave by the end of October and charity Shopmobility faces an uncertain future, as it has so far been unable to find any alternative premises. Leicestershire County Council is […]

The newly refurbished and extended gym has opened today at Harborough Leisure Centre. The area had been closed for the past three months to allow for the upgrade. The next phase of the improvement work at the centre is now underway, with the main entrance and reception area closed. A temporary entrance via the sports […]

Odeon has announced its cinema in Kettering is to close. The eight-screen out-of-town venue, which is popular with people from the Market Harborough area, will shut in January. The closure will leave Kettering without a cinema. Odeon has not revealed the reason for the closure, although it is understood it is linked to a proposed […]

The organiser of Market Harborough’s Summer Food and Drink Festival is thanking all who supported it. Despite the rain reducing visitor numbers of Saturday, around 4,000 people enjoyed the event in Welland Park on Sunday. Over 40 traders were selling a host of food and drink and crowds also enjoyed live music and children’s activities. […]

Market Harborough’s first new school in over 20 years has opened today. 17 youngsters have started in the reception class at Wellington Place Primary School on the Airfield Farm housing estate. Headteacher Cressida Knox told HFM it is a momentous day: The school on Airfield Road is part of the Discovery School Trust and is […]

Train services from Market Harborough have resumed after being suspended when a person was sadly hit by a train. The incident happened between Leicester and Kettering this morning and the section of track was closed in both directions, while emergency services were at the scene. A spokesperson for British Transport Police told HFM: “Officers were […]