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Michele Coleman, from Market Harborough, will take part in a big fundraiser this Sunday to help raise money in aid of the Alzheimer’s Society, a cause very close to her heart. In 2015, her Dad, Colin Boileau, was diagnosed with bladder cancer and a few months later with both Vascular Dementia and Alzheimer’s. He has […]

A public planning appeal hearing into whether a new housing estate can be built in Market Harborough has been delayed. It was due to be held next week by a government inspector, but will now take place at a later date. They will decide whether 65 houses can go up at the top of Kettering […]

A woman from East Langton threatened with jail has finally moved a mobile home that didn’t have planning permission. Harborough Council officials had been battling for over four years to get it shifted from Langton View Stables and eventually went to the High Court over the issue. The owner has moved it just days before […]

A Market Harborough firm has raised over £1200 to honour its founder, who was left seriously brain damaged after a sudden heart attack last year. Staff at the Ideal Marketing Company have marked its 15th birthday by taking part in a 15k walk, in aid of the British Heart Foundation. Alastair Campbell was 49 when […]

Time is standing still in Market Harborough, if you’re relying on the St Dionysius Church clock. A fault with the historic mechanism means its stopped along with the regular chiming. Church leaders say it’s been identified as a broken spring and a new one is now being specially made. They hope it will be ticking […]

Residents at the Edwin Court flats in Market Harborough say a Housing Association should be doing more to deal with so called ‘drugs flats’. Those living at the block on Kettering Road have told HFM they are fed up of it being labelled as a drugs den, saying the vast majority of residents are pleasant […]

‘Too much bling, give us a ring,’ is the message from Police today. The Leicestershire and Northamptonshire forces have teamed up to launch a new campaign in a bid take criminals’ cash, cars and other luxury property bought with their ill-gotten gains. It aims to encourage people to report those who appear to be living […]

Plans for a controversial housing development in Market Harborough have been put on hold over concerns about drainage. Councillors were due to consider the proposal for 128 homes at Burnmill Farm, off Kingston Way, last night, but the application was taken off the agenda. Over 110 people had lodged objections, with concerns including potential flooding, […]

Market Harborough’s former Cottage Hospital is to be demolished and a new 70-bedroom care home built it its place. Councillors last night granted planning permission for the multi-million pound redevelopment of the Coventry Road site. The protected World War One Memorial and Portico will be retained where it is though, and incorporated into the new […]

Harborough’s shop bosses met with Leicestershire’s Police and Crime Commissioner today and called for more Policing resources to be dedicated to tackle shoplifting. The meeting with Lord Willy Bach involved member of the Harborough Against Retail Theft (HART) scheme, that sees member shops linked by radio and to the CCTV control room, and able to […]