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Theatre: The Tiger Who Came To Tea

Following a smash-hit West End season, the tea-guzzling Tiger pounces into Northampton this Autumn in a truly magical Olivier Award-nominated production of The Tiger Who Came to Tea, which can be seen at Royal & Derngate from Friday 22...

Theatre: The Railway Children

A brand new stage production of E. Nesbit’s classic tale, The Railway Children, steams into Northampton’s Royal & Derngate from Tuesday 19 to Sunday 24 September. Published in 1906, Edith Nesbit's best-loved classic novel The Railway Children has since been...

The battle decided by a Banbury bar maid

Historian Mike Ingram reveals the story behind the Battle of Edgecote which legend has it was decided by the whim of a Banbury bar maid... It was the year 1469. The ‘war of succession’ that started at Northampton in 1460...

First visitors to Rushden Lakes

Campaigners who lobbied for the creation of the giant Rushden Lakes retail park on the A45 have had a sneak preview of the site. A statement from Crown Estates said: On Thursday 20 July, Rushden Lakes welcomed its first visitors, nearly...

Do we have to choose between cars and breathing in poison?

Across the UK, children are walking to school along roads choked with both traffic and with pollution. These issues are inextricably linked, and although medical professionals are reluctant to suggest cause, incidences of respiratory disease are higher in the...

Masterpiece of masterpieces

Alan Moore reviews The Last London by Iain Sinclair Monumental in every sense, The Last London is a beautifully-chiselled hieroglyphic capstone set in place atop the fifty-year-high edifice of Iain Sinclair’s city writings, all the rising lines of the enquiry...

Wake up and smell the Yellow Bourbon

Three months ago Steve Peel opened the doors of a small converted garage space in Angel Street and a glorious smell wafted out. It was the aroma of roasting coffee and Yellow Bourbon Coffee Roasters was born. It marked the...

Launchpad Festival at Corby Cube gives new theatre-makers a stage this weekend

Local artists and theatre makers from across the region have been collaborating at The Core at Corby Cube to create exciting new performance works to be shown at the venue at its first Launchpad Festival, on Thursday 20 to...

Shine on through the summer months

Julie Teckman reveals how dressing for summer is a fashion language all of its own... Summer creates something of a dilemma for women of a certain age (that is, past their twenties). Dressing through winter and spring no longer presents...

Cheese of the month: Carlton Sheep’s Cheese

Steve & Caroline Ward , owners of St Giles Cheese bring you their choice fromage of the month A fresh Ewes milk cheese made just across the county border at Valley view farm in Carlton, Bedfordshire. Steve and Bev farm...
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Review: Toxic masculinity confronted with courage and humour in Top Gs Like Me

What I love most about Top Gs Like Me - a new piece of theatre created at Royal &...
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