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Elderly residents living at a mobile home park in Market Harborough have had their electricity restored after being without it for over 40 hours. The outage affected five mobile homes at Gracelands Park off Farndon Road. An underground cable fault caused the problem and electricians were able to restore supplies late yesterday afternoon. Thorpe Management, […]

Lives are being put a risk by reckless driving on the A6 in Kibworth. There have been several incidents of concern recently, including speeding cars travelling on the wrong side of the road. It has led to renewed calls for average speed cameras to be installed. Kevin Feltham, Chairman of Kibworth Harcourt Parish Council, fears […]

The Coronavirus pandemic will leave Harborough Council with a funding gap of £1.1m, unless it gets more government support. It is estimated the total impact on the authority’s finances will be just over £2m, as a result of lost income from things like parking charges, and additional expenditure to support residents. Bosses are continuing to […]

The Market Harborough and the Bowdens charity is pledging to do all it can to help people bounce back from the impact of Coronavirus. It has already provided financial support to groups during the pandemic, including the Jubilee Foodbank, VASL, Home-Start and the Bower House voluntary counselling service. Chairman Adrian Trotter told Hfm they are […]

A gang of burglars who stole a safe containing £20,000 from a house in Illston On The Hill have been jailed for a total of over 15 years. They used a Land Rover Discovery, stolen earlier in the night from outside a house in Hallaton, to transport the safe to a secluded woodland, where they […]

Police say they are planning more drugs raids in and around Market Harborough. Officers executed a warrant under the misuse of drugs act at a house on Welland Park Road yesterday, seizing a quantity of suspected Class A drugs. Two men and a woman, who were arrested on suspicion of possession of Class A Drugs […]

The go-ahead has been given for a new state-of-the-art all-weather sports pitch at Robert Smyth Academy in Market Harborough. The flood-lit facility, costing around £600,000 will be used by students as well as the town’s hockey club and made available to other community groups. Principal of Robert Smyth Academy, Dan Cleary, is delighted: Harborough Council’s […]

Controversial plans to build a new housing estate in Great Bowden have been turned down. Harborough Council’s planning committee last night refused permission for the 33-home development on the Bowden Fencing site, off Leicester Lane, on the grounds it went against the village’s Neighbourhood Plan. It was a U-turn on a decision to approve the […]

Highway bosses have been left red-faced after mistakes were made on signs advising drivers of road closures in Market Harborough town centre. Adam and Eve Street is referred to as ‘Adam and Eva Street’ and the ‘r’ is missing from Church Street, so it reads ‘Chuch Street’. Hfm has made Leicestershire Council Council aware of […]

A ‘virtual’ Harborough Council planning meeting will be re-run tonight, after a technical fault prevented members of the public from watching it earlier this month. Decisions taken then were declared null and void, meaning the applications, including for 33 new homes on the Bowden Fencing site in Great Bowden will be considered again. Additional technical […]