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...
When it comes to character studies, one of the finest ever written is Shakespeare’s Richard III. Following Benedict Cumberbatch (The Hollow Crown) and Aneurin Barnard (The White Queen), seeing this character at the Royal & Derngate just oozes brilliance,...
Let me show you what mountain bikers eat, I said to my daughter as we pootled around Northampton on our bikes at the weekend.
That's how we ended up at Mothers Wok and Sushi because it is pretty much directly...
What a night of degenerate filth. It was quite superb. The new Made in Northampton production at the Royal Theatre in Northampton is Ibsen's Ghosts.
It's first performance in Victorian London provoked extraordinary criticism. It was not even a...
Lena Davis has been a music producer, writer and Personal Manager; a photographer and journalist and, over thirty years ago, got together with Caroline Scattergood to create the Caring & Sharing Trust to bring music, hope and love into...
Back in August 2017 we wrote about the huge redevelopment that had been ongoing at Delapre Abbey in Northampton.
One of the major changes was the removal of the much-loved cafe run by volunteers that had been replaced by...
The search for Penda’s perfect Sunday lunch has become a bit of a quest for the family. Not organised enough to plan in advance, there are many weekends spent deciding at the last minute to go out for a...
If you fancy a quick situation report on how far we've come lately you could do worse than spending the evening on Avenue Q.
If you are not aware of this 16-year-old Broadway hit that is still touring for adoring...
Towards the end of the last century I arrived in Northampton as a wide-eyed bumpkin from leafy Bedford and I asked the grizzled old hacks at the Chron what this dirty old town actually had.
The enormous desk of sports...
Tre Ventour reviews the Made In Northampton production Our Lady of Kibeho, staged for the first time in the UK at Royal & Derngate...
Photos by Manuel Harlan
Kibeho College, Rwanda, 1981: a young girl (Gabrielle Brooks) sparks scandal when she...
