Alarming pictures of Northampton's Queen Eleanor Cross overgrown with weeds prompted a new Facebook group and the promise of action from Northampton Borough Council. Historian Mike Ingram reminds us why we are so lucky to have it at Delapre...
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I’m a soft-hearted small ‘l’ liberal living in the age of austerity but even I, even now, wouldn’t say that the Conservatives are the cruellest people in politics. It’s us: the sadistic British electorate. I saw what we did....
On a balcony four flights up in crisp spring sunshine and a breeze that is spearmint fresh, David Laing, the Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire, declares: “We are truly beautiful.”
There’s no template for topping out ceremonies when you are building...
With pubs and shops closing down at an alarming rate Richard Hollingum describes how his community is trying another way...
It is estimated that across the country about 400 village shops close each year. More alarmingly in terms of speed...
The county's tradespeople are being called on to help create a home fit for the National Leather Collection.
An amazing archive of leather artefacts is housed in office space above The Grosvenor Centre in Northampton.
It includes items as varied as Samuel...
It’s one of the most dramatic changes to Northampton in the town’s history: two university campuses are closing and being rebuilt on a swathe of brownfield land along the River Nene and Bedford Road.
The Waterside project will see over...
A dog breeder who had 24 animals stolen in one raid on her Kislingbury kennels says she is “devastated” by the theft.
Mary Farren of Brookside Kennels in Banbury Road said: “It is like my children have gone. I am...
Tim Piggot-Smith has died three days before the opening night of Death of a Salesman in which he was due to take the lead role.
Staff and cast at Royal & Derngate in Northampton are "shocked and devastated" by the...
The extended version of the Errol Flynn filmhouse opened to a screening of Their Finest starring Gemma Arterton.
It is a beautifully crafted film about making an uplifting movie in Second World War Britain, writes Steve Scoles.
At one point a...
