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Six of the best at Northampton County Beer Festival

What am I most looking forward to drinking at this year’s Northampton County Beer Festival? As Chairman of the Northamptonshire Branch of The Campaign for Real Ale I will of course be seeking out the finest and most interesting...

Get your name on the teamsheet

Let me start with a disclaimer. It was a beautiful day at Sixfields Stadium when I arrived for the preview of The Twelfth Player. (And if you haven't already heard, yes, it does sound like they are staging a play...

Faiths come together in vigil for Manchester

A vigil was held at All Saints' Church on 23 May. 150 people attended the vigil, which was organized by Fathers Oliver Coss and Tim Curtis, and Hassan Shah on behalf of the Northampton Mosques, and was held as a response...

Event: Running Wild

Michael Morpurgo’s Running Wild comes to Northampton’s Royal & Derngate from Tuesday 23 to Saturday 27 May, as part of its first UK tour. Michael Morpurgo’s novel, based on a true story, is brought to life in this award-winning production,...

Hip Hops: Straight outta Hamtun

With dozens of micro-breweries and the Carlsberg mega-brewery, Northamptonshire is quietly becoming the unofficial capital of beer in the UK. Alaric Neville, famously once a sound engineer come producer for the band Chumbawumba, is known in Northampton as part of the...

Northampton’s secret artists

I must confess, art was a talent that skipped past me. I still have memories of attempting a silhouette of a classmate that ended up looking more like an excited puppy, and for years if someone wanted me to...

Splash of colour for a good cause

Photographer Dave Ikin captured these images of the annual Cynthia Spencer Colour Run. It was held for the first time at Overstone, having outgrown its previous venue, Castle Ashby. This time the event had over 1,000 runners taking part....

Is Northampton ready for change?

Cavan McLaughlin introduces a new kind of night out which brings the outsiders in... Change is a funny thing. Fear (or at least serious dislike) of change seems rife in humanity. Maybe it is simply rooted in a fear of our own...

Event: Northampton Soup

Northampton locals are being invited to pitch ideas and projects that will help to improve the town. Arts, food initiatives, community projects, local environment... If you have a brilliant idea, this is one way to get it off the...

Event: The Twelfth Player

Sixfields Stadium from Thursday 22 June to Wednesday 12 July (not Mondays) http://www.royalandderngate.co.uk or call Royal & Derngate Box Office on 01604 624811 A unique collaboration between Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Royal & Derngate Northampton, and Northampton Town Football Club brings an...
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Made in Northampton Party Season’s parenting stereotypes broke me with a single line – theatre review, Royal& Derngate

There was robust debate over a glass of pop following press night of Royal & Derngate's latest Made in...
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