It’s probably the best gin distillery in the world
Northamptonshire’s food and drink famous gathered at Warners Distillery in Harrington for the launch of the Carlsberg Food and Drink Awards. The audience at the awards [...]
Culture
Delapre’s Orangery has improved 18-months on . . . but still not for dogs
Back in August 2017 we wrote about the huge redevelopment that had been ongoing at Delapre Abbey in Northampton. One of the major changes was the removal of the much-loved [...]
Elwes lunch was a traditional treat
The search for Penda’s perfect Sunday lunch has become a bit of a quest for the family. Not organised enough to plan in advance, there are many weekends spent deciding at [...]
Hoarding: it’s time to throw the book at it
Eric Whitehouse One of the inevitable by-product of our consumer society is the discarded or stored items which once fuelled our urge to possess, but now have outlived their [...]
Calling anyone who cares about the Cobblers…
NTFC Trust chair Andy Roberts with an investment message for the Northants community ahead of Sunday’s landmark Cobblers community ownership public meeting A half [...]
Thousands of pupils get stuck into science at Big Bang Silverstone
The Big Bang at Silverstone was the second science and engineering fair put on at the home of the British Grand Prix and saw thousands of school children arriving to be [...]
Avenue Q will shock you with what used to be shocking
If you fancy a quick situation report on how far we’ve come lately you could do worse than spending the evening on Avenue Q. If you are not aware of this 16-year-old [...]
Discovering you are not who you thought you were
It all started when I decided to do an Ancestry DNA test. My brother was very into genealogy, and said that he was thinking of doing it through Ancestry.com website to trace [...]
What kind of idiot opens a shop during a financial crisis?
‘What kind of idiot opens a shop at a time of economic turbulence and crisis on the high street and in retail?’ If you’d asked me this time last year what I thought [...]