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Wellbeing

The Nene is part of who we are

The writer Richard Mabey suggests that our sense of locality, our sense of being, perhaps belonging here, is as much to do with our feeling territorial, as it is to do with the landscape and what’s on it, writes...

Piers Francis promises to saddle up for Cynthia if he isn’t playing

Saints star Piers Francis has poured praise on those pedallers who ignored the rain and turned out in force last autumn for the county’s favourite annual bike ride, Cycle4Cynthia, as he helped launch the event for 2019, writes Anna...

Piers Francis kicks off Cycle 4 Cynthia

Having played his vital part in bringing silverware to the Saints with their victory in the inaugural Premiership Rugby Cup at the weekend, Piers Francis will next month be switching roles and handing out the trophies in support of...

Hoarding: it’s time to throw the book at it

One of the inevitable by-product of our consumer society is the discarded or stored items which once fuelled our urge to possess, but now have outlived their usefulness and are piled mournfully on ever expanded scrapheaps, writes Eric Whitehouse....

Discovering you are not who you thought you were

It all started when I decided to do an Ancestry DNA test. My brother was very into genealogy, and said that he was thinking of doing it through Ancestry.com website to trace our family history back to the...

Binnertime at The Tollemache Arms

When chef Joe Buckley took on the challenge of hosting the biggest Elsie’s Cafe binnertime event so far he thought it would be a good way to keep his staff on their toes. Joe’s Perfect Country Pubs group runs The...

Inside Northampton night shelter

Shirley Jones finds out where people go when they have nowhere else to go... When the long, warm nights of summer first begin to give way to the shorter nights of autumn, I feel a pang of loss.  But as...

Just spread the love – what Harry Redknapp, Holly Willoughby, Stacey Dooley and Gareth Southgate can teach us this year

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...

NGH first UK hospital to achieve international nursing standard

Northampton's nurses have one of the best working environments in the country according to an international accreditation scheme. NGH released the following statement this week: Northampton General Hospital is the first hospital in the United Kingdom to achieve an international mark...

This is what a team of real superheroes looks like

The stars in Northampton's voluntary sector have been highlighted at the Northamptonshire Community Foundation awards. As well as recognising the unselfish contributions of different people and organisations, the awards also cast a light on the wide variety of projects supporting...
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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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