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Fall in complaints against Northamptonshire Police
Northamptonshire Police chiefs have hailed a 30 per cent fall in the number of complaints made against officers.The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) this morning published figures...
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Game Review: Angry Birds Trilogy
I am a bit of a secret Angry Birds addict. I’ve had the original on my windows phone for some time so when the console version arrived I was eager to feed my secret addiction and I wasn’t...
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Skulking in the woods
Even though I have no truck with ghoulies and ghosties and things that go bump in the night, I can’t resist telling you a famous Northamptonshire ghost story that so frightened the locals that the...
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Call for public debate on report into performance of company responsible for...
Labour councillors have called for a public debate to discuss the findings of a report which highlighted significant failures by the company responsible for Northampton’s bin collections.Last week...
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Care home in Northampton given safety warning by inspectors
The Care Quality Commission has issued a formal warning to Countrywide Care Homes Limited saying they must make improvements to standards of care at Argyle House, in Dallington, or face further action....
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Pub closed by police for selling booze to kids
A town centre pub has been shut down by police for “persistently” selling alcohol to children.The Bear, in Sheep Street, which is owned by Enterprise Inns, has been closed for two weeks along with...
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Northampton man arrested in £500,000 heroin seizure
Four men, including a man from Northampton, have been arrested after a drug squad seized 17.6lb (8kg) of heroin worth £560,000.Officers from the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency (SCDEA) made...
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Bond gadget raises cash for police
A pioneering technique to take fingerprints from used shotgun cartridges has been sold to a mystery buyer, earning Northamptonshire Police “several thousands of pounds”.The revolutionary “fingerprint...
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Jefferson Lake’s Cobblers v Bradford view and ratings
About the best possible thing you can say about Tuesday night’s defeat to Bradford City is that the Cobblers did not pick up any further injuries during it.It was poor stuff from the home side, only...
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NAPS TABLE: Bilson claims £1,000 top prize
Brixworth-based punter Trevor Bilson was toasting his success at winning the £1,000 first prize after being crowned this summer’s Semilong Racing/Chron Summer Naps Table champion on Saturday. Bilson...
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O’Brien makes the move to Leicestershire
Niall O’Brien has joined Leicestershire on a three-year deal.The 31-year-old has left Northamptonshire with a year remaining on his contract, a development that has been on the cards for a while, after...
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East: League postition counts for nothing as Cobblers prepare for Vale visit
Danny East wants the Cobblers to learn from the example set by Barnet at their expense last week, that position counts for nothing in npower League Two.Barnet made light of their bottom-of-the-league...
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“God-like” delusions of knife attack victim left thinking he is Barack Obama
The victim of a violent attack may never recover from a blood infection which caused psychosis, leading him to believe he was the President of the United States.Tatenda Kamasho, 19, was stabbed in the...
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Northampton family homeless after knife ordeal
A family subjected to a terrifying knife attack have been left with nowhere to live as their four children are too scared to return home.The Chron revealed last week that a family, who cannot be named...
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Farmer who confronted intruders awarded £500 for his bravery
A farmer who confronted three intruders and helped bring a career criminal to justice has been awarded £500 from public funds for his bravery.David Pentelow was working on his land, adjacent to the...
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Figures reveal a total of 492 registered sex offenders living in...
New figures released today have revealed there are a total of 492 registered sex offenders living in Northamptonshire.The statistic is contained in the annual report from Multi-Agency Public Protection...
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Chron Comment: October 25
Rail users in Northampton have long believed they have been treated like poor cousins when it comes to services.Who can forget the seemingly endless programme of engineering works a few years back or...
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Five Saints named in England squad for autumn internationals
Five Saints players have been named in England’s elite squad for the autumn internationals against Fiji, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand.Scrum-half Lee Dickson is the only Northampton back in...
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Then there were five...
Our farmers weren’t quite marching with pitchforks into Hunsbury Hill the other night, but they certainly planned some difficult questions to skewer the five surviving men hoping to police...
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Click, brrr...The day that The Mack lost it on air
Click, brrr. Yes, The Mack this week joins the list of Tories (like Peter Lilley and Nigel Lawson before him), who’ve had a thorough going over on radio.Rather than Today’s late great Brian Redhead,...
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