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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 [...]

Finding yourself in Skegness

October 23, 2012 // 1 Comment

Wrangle, Leake and Drainside pass by as I drive. Small settlements and thoroughfares with names that remind me England can still be remote and unusual. It’s a surprise [...]

Being bombarded

September 13, 2011 // 0 Comments

Being shelled, the way I was shelled, was a bit like having high explosive hiccups. There was a long enough pause between each blast to make me wonder if that last one was [...]

Cherie immediately created a buzz, flirting her way through us like a knife through butter. I was surprised by how curvy she looked. My photographer for the job was a young lad who had arrived in a leather biker's jacket and Cherie homed in on him. [...]

Will Self interview 2006

February 14, 2006 // 0 Comments

IF you type the name of novelist, satirist and journalist Will Self into an internet search engine, apart from sites dedicated to the man himself you will find several [...]

Howard Marks interview 2004

November 12, 2004 // 0 Comments

HOWARD MARKS is a 59-year-old nuclear physicist but that’s not why theatres across the country have been selling out when he arrives to perform his spoken word [...]

Alan Moore interview 2003

October 20, 2003 // 0 Comments

ALAN MOORE is not talking about his book The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. This might seem strange of the Northampton author because the Hollywood film version, starring [...]

Smooth Silkmen flatten uneven Cobblers

August 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

Managerless Macclesfield put in a seamless performance in seeing off clunky Cobblers at Sixfields on Saturday but it was Andy Williams’ mega miss that will stick in the [...]

Northamptonshire’s Richard III was the victim of a French coup

August 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

My first encounter with the author of Richard III and the Battle of Bosworth now seems like it took place in another era of history. Many years ago I was news editor of the [...]

Slice of funding helps create The Little Bakery of Happiness

August 5, 2019 // 0 Comments

A Northamptonshire craft baker has opened brand-spanking new premises thanks to a timely injection of some much-needed dough, writes Anna Murby. Vicky Robertson, a [...]

Northampton V Walsall preview: Cobblers need to get at Saddlers if they are to give them a leathering

August 2, 2019 // 0 Comments

It seems only a couple of weeks since the season ended but Cobblers are back in League 2 action as they open the 2019/20 campaign against Walsall at Sixfields, writes Tom [...]

Images from communities coming together at Northampton Mela

July 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

The second Northampton Mela in Beckets Park saw an array of performers from across the town’s various communities entertain despite the rain. A range of community [...]

Consistency greatest enemy for Cobblers as playoffs could be tantalisingly out of reach

July 28, 2019 // 0 Comments

Cobblers kick off their 2019-20 campaign against Walsall on Saturday and Keith Curle has made no secret of his desire to get out of England’s basement division. [...]

Northampton’s Slowthai nominated for Mercury prize

July 26, 2019 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

Get inside the lives of the Last of the Pelican Daughters

July 26, 2019 // 0 Comments

The very brilliant young company Wardrobe Ensemble bring their latest production for pre-Edinburgh previews at Northampton this week, and I implore you to go if you can get [...]

Northampton Mela – you never realise how much you need it until you have one

July 25, 2019 // 0 Comments

Humanity does seem to stack the deck against itself sometimes. We will declare a crisis at the drop of a hat but you really have to twist people’s arms to get them to [...]