Student choir raises the curtain at Northampton Music Festival
Students from the University of Northampton will be opening Northampton Music Festival with a special night-time performance. The University of Northampton Chamber Choir will [...]
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UoN student wins design award for helping the homeless get online
An ingenious concept which transforms a bus shelter into a smart solution to help the homeless has earned a creative student a coveted design award, writes Chris Fidler. The [...]
Video insight into the miniature world of Jane Percival
Jane Percival is a miniaturist. It has been the work of a lifetime making two buildings packed with detailed furniture and fittings – one based on the Ambush Street [...]
Northampton Beer Festival will be a celebration of county’s drinks makers
Northampton County Beer Festival is taking place on the 1st to 3rd June 2018, writes Elisha Dexter. The beer festival showcases the finest drinks from the county’s best [...]
Rafts launched to give Common Terns a nesting place
Common Terns are being offered floating havens in Northamptonshire to help them nest and breed in safety, writes Wildlife Trust BCN. Common Terns, Sterna hirundo, are [...]
Martin Sutherland to leave Royal & Derngate to be Coventry culture boss
Martin Sutherland, Chief Executive of Royal & Derngate and The Core at Corby Cube, will leave his role in Autumn 2018 to lead the team that will deliver UK City of [...]
Royal Showstopper baking revealed at Althorp
In an array of baking creations of which Prue and Paul would have been proud, two of the county’s finest cake-makers are now celebrating after being named joint winners of [...]
Stepping out to look back in
Reviewing the Situation with Lena Davis Lena has been a music producer, writer and Personal Manager; a photographer and journalist and, over thirty years ago, got together [...]
Northamptonshire’s hot protestants and the Great Rebellion
Mike Ingram looks at the county’s part in the English Civil War… The ‘Great Rebellion’ better known today as the English Civil War began on 22 August 1642. [...]