Food and Drink

The best things come in refilled packages

Anna Murby looks at a new way to shop in Northamptonshire... A husband and wife team have toasted the launch of their latest venture and Northamptonshire’s first permanent, fully packaging-free village shop in the most appropriate way - with local...

Slice of funding helps create The Little Bakery of Happiness

A Northamptonshire craft baker has opened brand-spanking new premises thanks to a timely injection of some much-needed dough, writes Anna Murby.   Vicky Robertson, a specialist gluten-free producer of cakes, pies, pastries and snack products, has recently merged her award-winning businesses...

Caribbean chef joins culinary challenge

While most professional chefs endure the heat of the kitchen on a daily basis, writes Anna Murby, one former local catering student has taken welcome respite from his usual Caribbean temperatures, coming back to the county to help determine...

Sounds like a cut above the rest

In the forty years that Doctor Who has been wielding a sonic screwdriver, it’s been used to track alien life, create force fields and even disarm the Daleks! Now, thanks to some timely funding, an award-winning Northamptonshire food manufacturer will...

Surpise Yourself! Guide to Food and Drink in Northamptonshire

This is the Surprise Yourself guide to some of the best places for food and drink in Northamptonshire. It has been compiled using the combined expertise for Made In Northamptonshire, the Carlsberg Food and Drink Awards for the Northamptonshire Surprise...

Bill’s may be a chain but a good shopping hideout

We usually give priority on our eating out experiences in NQ to independent outlets who, like our humble selves, are battling against the bigger chaps with their deeper, corporate pockets. But after a couple of visits to Bill’s at...

Tap and Kitchen’s an odd modern mixture

WE needed an excuse to move further afield from the county town to discover more of Northamptonshire’s culinary hot-spots. When the in-laws decided, well in advance of their dotage, to move to Norfolk, a suitable meeting point for...

Ale’s well that ends well

Turning one’s passion into a career isn’t the easiest of paths to follow but it’s something that one Northamptonshire farmer’s son has achieved smoothly, thanks to a FEAST of help, writes Anna Murby. You see beer-loving Ed Matts, who had...

Your chance to win a hamper by Smiths/Sauls

Celebrate spring with a hamper full of top quality local produce courtesy of Smith’s Farmshops and Sauls of Spratton. The two local heroes have teamed up to put together a prize basket of goodies for an NQ reader who can...

FAMfest: discover your community the Emporium Way

There are parts of Northampton that have a bit of their own special magic and Emporium Way is one of them. Yes, I can see the pictures. I have not gone completely bonkers. It is a pretty brutal concrete...
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They say Saints are revolutionaries but in this town it is just common sense: Northampton and the identity of English rugby

Following England Rugby's recent defeat by South Africa, discussions around the 'English identity' in rugby have intensified. Critiques suggest England's current style is overly focused on brute strength rather than creativity. In contrast, Northampton Saints exemplify a successful approach grounded in basic skills and inclusivity, potentially signalling a need for a shift in England's rugby philosophy.
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