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Fire crews from Market Harborough teamed up with colleagues from Northamptonshire for a training exercise on Saturday. They used the Welland Place retirement complex on St Mary’s Road to practice how they would respond to a fire within a high-rise building. The cross-border training session was to strengthen the working relationship between the crews, who […]
Fire crews from Leicestershire and Northamptonshire will stage a joint training exercise in Market Harborough tomorrow. The event at the Welland Quarter on St Mary’s Road aims to strengthen the working relationship between the two services, which often assist each other at incidents either side of the border. It will also enable firefighters to look […]
Harborough’s Enviro-Crime officers have found evidence they hope will lead them back to where dumped rubbish came from. The building and household waste was dumped on Station Road, Newton Harcourt, earlier this week. A spokesperson for Harborough District Council said: “Traceable evidence was found amongst the household waste and this will be investigated. “If anyone […]
A Market Harborough youngster is taking the national electric karting championships by storm. Joel Dixon-Coen, aged 11, took up the sport competitively two years ago and is currently second in the Total Karting Zero Championship after two of the six rounds. The young racer, a pupil at Meadowdale Primary School, told Hfm he is feeling […]
Leicester City centre-back Josh Knight has signed for Championship side Peterborough United for a ‘substantial fee.’ The 23-year-old from Fleckney, a former student at Robert Smyth Academy in Market Harborough, joined the Foxes at the age of eight and signed his first professional contract with the Club 10 years later. He spent last season on loan with […]
Temporary traffic lights at the railway bridge on Kettering Road in Little Bowden will be made permanent. The response to a public consultation was overwhelmingly in favour of the move, together with keeping a wider cycling lane. Both were introduced by Leicestershire County Council last year to boost safety, initially on a temporarily basis, using […]
Councillors are to meet bank bosses to call for a re-think on the closure of the Halifax in Market Harborough. It was announced last week the branch on The Square will shut later this year, along with a number of others across the country. The decision by Lloyds Banking Group was blamed on more people […]
The number of households using Harborough’s garden waste collection scheme has dropped by over 2,500 in a year. Opposition councillors blame the £15 increase in subscribing to the green bin service for the reduction – although District Council bosses say it had no option but to put up the cost. Just over 16,500 people have […]
2,600 pupils across Leicestershire are currently self-isolating after coming into contact with people who tested positive for coronavirus. There were 281 cases in county schools in June – with 45 staff members and 235 students becoming infected with the virus, including a number at the Kibworth Mead Academy. To put the figures in context, Leicestershire […]
A man who defied the odds to survive an explosion in Market Harborough is preparing to embark on a big fundraiser for the Air Ambulance. Rod Martin says he owes his life to the service, after he suffered 52% burns when he was engulfed in flames at his garage workshop in St Mary’s Road, in […]
