Archive - NN Journal

Friday brief: Football club wants to set up SEN school on site

Here's our regular round up of some Northants news that has occurred this week

11 hrs ago • NN Journal

Charity that owes £1.6m to the taxman enters administration

William Blake House, which looks after young adults with learning disabilities, is being investigated by the charity regulator

Apr 2 • NN Journal

‘It was like a big dysfunctional family, but we all got on’

Five years since our unitary councils began, we take a look at how its going so far

Apr 1 • NN Journal

March 2026

Friday brief: Charity Commission investigation widens to Northampton gallery

We have an exclusive about the charity regulator’s investigation into concerns about Shoosmith Gallery, plus a round up some news from the past week

Mar 27 • NN Journal

Commissioner dismisses more sites for new Corby police station, as MP says he is ‘getting impatient’

Northamptonshire’s police and crime commissioner has ruled out more potential sites for a Corby police station and says the search continues.

Mar 26 • NN Journal

More change within council’s turbulent education department

North Northamptonshire Council has appointed its fifth education boss in five years, amid problems with special needs, mainstream placement planning and…

Mar 25 • NN Journal

Friday brief: Start up company given council’s £13m modular homes contract

Plenty of news this Friday

Mar 20 • NN Journal

Charity regulator removes trustees from care home amid financial mismanagement inquiry

Wiliam Blake House owes more than £1.5m in tax and one trustee has been paid huge sums in consultancy fees

Mar 18 • NN Journal

Council documents suggest Corby’s toxic quarry site is leaking

Investigations by public bodies suggest that Deene Quarry, a former steelworks chemical dumping ground, and later home to a raceway, is leaking historic…

Mar 17 • NN Journal

Friday brief: Reform UK administration condemned for failing to hold ‘sexist’ councillor to account

It's our regular end of the week news round up from across our county

Mar 13 • NN Journal

‘Some women should have never left the kitchen’

Exclusive: Reform UK’s vice chairman of West Northamptonshire Council makes sexist remark at International Women’s Day event

Mar 10 • NN Journal

Failing mental health hospital boss steps down as government tells NHS commissioners to remove hundreds of patients

Vivienne McVey has suddenly retired from Northampton's St Andrew's Hospital amid safety concerns and police investigations

Mar 9 • NN Journal

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