Northampton’s Slowthai nominated for Mercury prize
As rapper Slowthai gets the Mercury nod, here’s the Nenequirer interview from when he came back to Northampton College earlier this year What Slowthai did when he [...]
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When bike fun on Northampton’s Racecourse turns to violence: Are we letting our kids drift into trouble unchecked?
We were walking the dog, taking my daughter on her bike to meet friends on Northampton’s Racecourse park, coming from the Barrack Road entrance towards the old loos, where [...]
New First Citizen of Northampton takes office
Councillor Nazim Choudary takes over from Councillor Tony Ansell as the Mayor of Northampton after a Mayor making ceremony at The Guildhall. A statement released by [...]
Escape in Northampton town centre
This is AJ the escapologist performing in at the Cobbler’s Last statue in Northampton town centre last week. Here is some edited footage of his act. His full act [...]
The best thing I’ve ever seen at the theatre
If I start out with a header like ‘The best thing I’ve ever seen at the theatre’ I know I’m being misleading straight away. It’s a woolly [...]
This is me: my X-box makeover
This is me in X-Box world. My sons have been nagging me to ‘sort out’ my avatar for some time and this morning I finally did it (catching up on all those urgent [...]
A thing I cannot describe
I can’t say exactly what my big achievement of the day was but I achieved it with a petrol driven strimmer and sustained a number of small, satisfying injuries along [...]
Congratulations to the Rev Richard Coles
I’m not a graduate myself so I don’t properly understand the honorary something that the Rev Richard Coles is being given by Northampton University this week but [...]
I used a steam iron but not in a steam punk way
I’m back on my travels tomorrow, three days in Portsmouth talking digital first publishing and social media then a day in Hastings doing the same. I’ve managed to [...]