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Screen Northants reveals details of online Northampton Film Festival

Northampton Film Festival runs for a week from May 12 and will be online this year although there will be a movie set in the Grosvenor Centre where filming takes place. Screen Northants has published the following press release about...

Poet laureate reopens library that survived council cuts and Covid

The Poet Laureate Simon Armitage gave a reading of his work at Abington Community Library today to mark its official reopening. The event was streamed live due to Covid restrictions and featured a selection of his poems touching on subjects...

Made In Northamptonshire celebrates ten years as its TWO stores re-open

When a small group of food and drink firms gathered in January 2011 as inaugural members of a new county networking group, little could they have known the impact it would have on their business, not to mention the...

Drive in cinema returns to Delapre

Filmhouse@Delapre is back! Amanda Howson of Northampton Film house released the following statement: After the success of last summer, Northampton Filmhouse and Delapré Abbey are thrilled to announce the return of Drive-In Cinema this spring, running from Saturday 22 May...

Weetabix Award winners revealed in third course of honours

“I can’t wait to get my knees under the table somewhere local and enjoy a lovely nosh-up!”  Those sentiments of former Communards member, award-winning broadcaster and author and now Finedon priest Reverend Richard Coles must sum up how thousands of...

Weetabix Awards judges name extraordinary chefs in an extraordinary year

While 2021 still offers the county’s culinary sector little for which to be thankful, more of its finest are enjoying a well-earned reason to celebrate after picking up top accolades in this year’s Weetabix Northamptonshire Food and Drink Awards. The...

Celebrating our local food heroes

While a New Year is traditionally associated with hopes of a fresh start, the announcement of a third lockdown just four days in to last month meant that the county’s food and drink sector had little reason to toast...

What a time for a challenge like this…

Having arrived as Chief Executive of Wellingborough’s Daylight Centre Fellowship last September - at the height of the COVID pandemic - Carina Fisher understands the phrase ‘baptism of fire’ rather better than most! Now, four months into her role at...

‘Bitter’ rivals come together

They stand barely 300 yards apart so, in normal times, you might expect two pubs in such close proximity to be bitter rivals, fighting over the same beer money! But these are hardy normal times and so it is that...

New musicals to premiere at Royal & Derngate

Royal & Derngate Northampton today (Thursday December 7) announces that it will premiere a season of original musical theatre as part of its upcoming Made in Northampton 2021 season.  As the culmination of a three-year project which has seen Royal...
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Graham Cousins: the Belfast rascal who became a Northampton legend

This is how eras really end. It doesn't happen with fanfares and fireworks, it is the small but important...
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