Haywood and Nutley get the call as Saints gear up for Bath test
Saints have made just the two enforced changes to the team that beat Worcester Warriors for Saturday’s Aviva Premiership showdown with Bath at Franklin’s Gardens (ko 3pm).England pair Dylan Hartley and...
View ArticleLegal & General “still working hard” on plans to extend Grosvenor Centre
The owners of Northampton’s Grosvenor Centre have insisted they are still pushing forward with plans to expand the mall and suggested the wealth of developments currently happening in the town is...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: 150 jobs lost after Northampton shop-fitting firm goes into...
A Northampton based shop-fitting business has gone into administration resulting in the loss of 150 jobs in the town.Deane & Amos Group, which has factories in Kingsthorpe, and in the Queens Park...
View ArticleWootton murder suspect Anxiang Du appears at Northampton Crown Court
Quadruple murder suspect Anxiang Du could stand trial for murder in August, Northampton Crown Court heard this morning.Du appeared before the court shortly after 10.30am.During the short hearing, he...
View ArticlePolice link Northampton bookmakers raids with two more robberies
Detectives probing two ‘gunpoint’ raids of bookmakers in Northampton are now linking the heists with two armed robberies elsewhere in the county.Police say they are now appealing for witnesses...
View ArticleTom Vickers’ Saints v Bath preview: Pressure still on Mallinder’s men
Saints have not lost a league game to Bath at Franklin’s Gardens for almost 13 years - and they desperately need to preserve that record on Saturday.The west country side will have the scent of blood...
View ArticleJefferson Lake’s Cobblers v Plymouth preview: Great expectations on...
Even though the Cobblers’ away form has improved in the past week, there is still an expectation on them to win all of their home games between now and the end of the season.The past two fixtures have...
View ArticleSaints and Cobblers fans urged to arrive early ahead of 3pm kick-off clash
Saints and Cobblers fans are again being urged to arrive early for the home matches tomorrow as traffic is expected to be extremely heavy ahead of the 3pm kick-off for both games.A traffic management...
View ArticleUCL PREVIEW: Field convinced Sileby will claim title glory
Bugbrooke St Michael’s boss Paul Field says Sileby Rangers will win the UCL Division One title this season.And he admits everyone else, including his in-form side, are only playing for the runners-up...
View ArticleNON-LEAGUE PREVIEW: Daventry boss Foster wants team to ‘make a statement’
Daventry Town boss Darran Foster has called on his players to ‘make a statement’ that their play-off bid is alive and kicking when leaders Burnham come calling on Saturday.Town’s top-five bid suffered...
View ArticleEx-Cobbler Charles looking forward to Sixfields return with Argyle
Former Cobblers defender Anthony Charles makes a swift return to Sixfields with Plymouth Argyle tomorrow (Sat), and has warned his new team-mates they are in for a tough afternoon.Charles was only...
View ArticleJEREMY CASEY COLUMN: Johnson has selective memory over time at Northampton Town
Gary Johnson is seemingly doing a great job back at Yeovil. The Somerset club are in with a genuine shout of promotion to the npower Championship, and the former Cobblers boss is seemingly in the...
View ArticleJEREMY CASEY COLUMN: Can Mallinder recreate the magic?
Looking at the problems facing Jim Mallinder at the Saints has got me thinking about other coaches or managers who have made an instant impact with a club, and then seemingly hit a bit of a wall.Now I...
View ArticleWrecking crews move into Northampton’s Greyfriars bus station building on Monday
Wrecking crews will move into the offices above Northampton’s Greyfriars bus station on Monday to begin stripping the building ready for its demolition.The three-storey office block above the...
View ArticleAxe-wielding robber raids driver outside McDonald’s in Northampton
A robber armed with an axe held up a delivery driver outside McDonald’s in Riverside Retail Park, police have confirmed.The armed robbery happened yesterday, between 7.55am and 8.05am, outside...
View ArticleMembers of a paedophile gang that included Northamptonshire scout leader are...
Two more members of a sick paedophile ring, which included a Northamptonshire scout leader, have been jailed for abusing victims at a remote farm.John Connolly, aged 42, and Joanne Gale, aged 36, both...
View ArticleIt’s tough to entertain four-year-old royalty
It was party time at the weekend. It was supposed to be anyway. Bonnie celebrated her fifth birthday on Monday, which meant some kind of event on Saturday.She had been planning it for about a year,...
View ArticleIs horsemeat a scandal? Nay!
I find myself amazed, sometimes, when news stories gather a currency all of their own, far beyond the original subject that they report. It’s been the case so far with the horsemeat scandal which has...
View ArticleBeing creative at A Level is terrific news
I’m not normally a very jealous person. I’m quite happy to shrug off the fact that so-and-so has the fanciest smart phone whadya-ma-call-it with the mantra that I’m probably in possession of something...
View ArticleChron Comment: February 21
Almost two years after the quadruple murder of the Ding family in Wootton, the prime suspect, Anxiang Du, will appear before a court in Northampton charged with the killings.Nobody in Northampton at...
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