The NeneQuirer

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 [...]

We can put Britain First but let’s make sure it’s the real Britain

February 13, 2019 // 0 Comments

Out of all the places Britain First could have visited, I’m surprised they chose Northampton, writes Tre Ventour. They arrived, supposedly protesting the extension of a [...]

Where to go if you want to own the Cobblers

February 12, 2019 // 0 Comments

Tom Reed reports on Northampton Town Supporter's Trust plans to launch a community ownership bid for Northampton Town FC [...]

The pictures that show anything is possible with this Saints team

February 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

You couldn’t blame Saints fans who felt a bit of nauseous deja vu after Newcastle ran in the third of their opening tries at Franklins Gardens on Saturday. The Geordies [...]

Discovering you are not who you thought you were

February 10, 2019 // 1 Comment

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 [...]

What kind of idiot opens a shop during a financial crisis?

February 8, 2019 // 1 Comment

‘What kind of idiot opens a shop at a time of economic turbulence and crisis on the high street and in retail?’ If you’d asked me this time last year what I thought [...]

The NeneQuirer Digital Edition for Spring 2019

February 7, 2019 // 0 Comments

Here is the digital edition of the Spring 2019 NeneQuirer [...]

Keith Curle’s jigsaw in bits after 4-0 Colchester rout

February 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

Cobblers were on the receiving end of a 4-0 battering by Colchester United at Sixfields yesterday. It looks like operation avoid relegation for Keith Curle’s Cobblers after [...]

Gripped by the Cobblers Transfer Window Special: Sensible short term solutions for a club in flux

February 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

The January transfer window didn’t so much as slam shut but creak excruciatingly to a close at 11pm on Thursday night. Fans were left on tenterhooks as a new signing was [...]

Avenue Q is back in town

January 31, 2019 // 0 Comments

The hilarious puppet musical that brought you songs such as The Internet is for Porn and Everyone’s A Little Bit Racist returns to Royal & Derngate on February 18. [...]

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