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No Hipster guilt here – supporting your local cafe is about community and a decent cuppa

January 12, 2018 // 0 Comments

A regular visit to an artisan coffee shop and bakery might sound like an extravagance in these straitened times, but it’s worth so much more than a one-off treat. It’s a [...]

Fabulous fine dining in theatre’s top room – Hibiscus, Northampton review

November 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

Penda had been looking forward to this. A promise of an up-market dining experience in Northampton for less than £30 a head? Yes please. Hibiscus is tucked away upstairs in [...]

Review: Education Education Education, Royal and Derngate, Northampton

October 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

By Hilary Scott. @nosylocaljourno Twenty years ago, in 1997, I interviewed the relatively unknown Tony Blair as he was campaigning in Northampton. It was just before the [...]

Van Veen obscenely good as Town snatch 95th minute winner from Forest Green

October 14, 2018 // 0 Comments

Dutch striker Kevin Van Veen showed he is no clogger with a smart showing off the bench as Town beat Forest Green 2-1 at Sixfields, writes Tom Reed. The former PSV man hunted [...]

Why Defying Gravity will be an uplifting experience

October 13, 2018 // 0 Comments

A dramatisation of the Challenger space shuttle disaster from Mad Men writer Jane Anderson is the new Masque Theatre production next week. Defying Gravity is at The Playhouse [...]

Gun Dog unleashing its potential

October 12, 2018 // 0 Comments

A Northamptonshire brewery is enjoying its best year yet thanks to collaring two new awards and a grant which will prompt a 40% increase in production, writes Anna Murby. Gun [...]

Would you cut the rope?

October 12, 2018 // 1 Comment

Karin Johnstone reviews Touching the Void which is at Royal & Derngate, Northampton You are 19,000 feet up a mountain in hazardous icy conditions roped to your climbing [...]

Black history month: it belongs to all of us

October 12, 2018 // 0 Comments

Black History Month is a time of year I think shouldn’t have to exist since Black History is interlinked with White History, writes Tre Ventour. Black History is [...]

Gripped by the Cobblers: Mysterious Curle not afraid to ruffle a few feathers

October 11, 2018 // 1 Comment

Keith Curle was by no means a popular choice for Cobblers fans but has come in and halted the Dean Austin slide. The best thing about the former Wimbledon defender, who fans [...]

Teimana Harrison talks about what kind of number eight he really is

October 11, 2018 // 0 Comments

In the wake of Saints defeat in the East Midlands derby tribute to Rob Horne, Teimana Harrison reflects on what Rob means to the club, how he is shaping up as a number eight [...]

It’s not who you’re watching, it’s why you’re watching

October 11, 2018 // 0 Comments

Reviewing the Situation with Lena Davis “Watching You” by Lisa Jewell (published by Century Press) “China’s Oasis” is co-written by David Gotts and Richard Harris [...]

Northamptonshire Association for the Blind may lose county council funding

October 11, 2018 // 0 Comments

In an atmosphere of thinking the unthinkable when it comes to county council funding cuts NAB, the long term provider of services for the blind in Northamptonshire, faces [...]