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Christmas Eve brief: £7m thank you to Northamptonshire carers

‘What the government is doing to the BBC is very dangerous’

Comment: We must resist the government's ‘racist’ Borders Bill

Big changes planned for how Northamptonshire’s two acute hospitals operate

‘If council planners aren’t going to protect us, we’ll have to protect ourselves’

Friday brief: Housing association u-turns on eviction of Afghan widow

Special report (part 1): Northamptonshire’s shocking health inequalities

Notorious former budget hotel to be turned into homeless accommodation

Are schools ready for an Omicron 'tidal wave'?

Absent councillor receives thousands in payment for meetings she has never convened

Friday brief: Secret meeting about council lawsuit approves a settlement sum

'I just hope God will help me now because there is no other hope'

​​Reviews into two Northamptonshire baby deaths find ‘unacceptable practice’ and a substandard police investigation

Hospital trust chairman orders review into virtual clinics after patient given wrong treatment

‘I don’t think I can go on much longer’

Friday brief: Northamptonshire police staff complain of being ‘overwhelmed' and close to 'burn out’

Northampton gets behind city bid

‘I can’t tell you how she died and I can’t tell you where she is’

Calls for Northants councils to end investment in fossil fuels 

Hush hush deal done over Chester House costs

Local history groups keep our past alive

Friday brief: India Chipchase's mum backs relaunch of women's safety scheme

North unitary scrutiny commission uncovers data issues hampering authority

Cobblers deal: Meeting cancelled as councillors raise concerns about sale price

Maternity services ‘unsafe’ and in crisis

‘We need to fight this’: Campaign groups join forces to stop new warehouse developments

Friday brief: No sign of formal investigation at Northants cricket club after racism allegations

Lost services could be reinstated, but will Northamptonshire’s new plans ‘bus back better?’

Cobblers loan: Questions asked after WNC cabinet member spotted with Ex-MP David Mackintosh

Will the 21 year search for Sarah Benford come to an end this week?

Unitary by-election anticipated as councillor moves out of county

Friday Brief: New plan to tackle poverty in some of the county’s biggest towns afoot

‘We cannot go on letting them down’

Special report: The domestic abuse victims ‘let down’ by Northants Police

Northampton South MP making thousands in extra cash from consultancy work

Northampton joins global day of climate action

Friday brief: ‘Left behind’ community centre lost without consultation

Cries of ‘shame’ as Northants MP sparks anger in the Commons

‘We are in dire straits at the moment’

Cobblers land deal step closer

'There is nothing in celebrity that I want'

Pat Fish obituary

Friday Brief: ‘Big Night In’ protest will see boycott of Northampton clubs 

Thousands hit by another council tax blunder from North Northamptonshire Council

Everything you need to know about the government’s sewage row

‘It is not a new problem, or a pandemic-created crisis.They are running out of care staff because they don’t pay fairly’

NN Comment: Plan B is needed now to slow Covid rates

NN Editorial: Levelling Up project

Friday brief: Anti-knife group devise strategy

Another twist in Desborough’s Lawrence factory saga

Northants councils to recommend face masks in schools

Union calls for action over school Covid rates

‘Where’s the scrutiny?’ 200 days into North Northamptonshire Council and questions are being asked

Friday brief: Hate crimes rise by more than a third in Northants

‘I’m hoping lessons will have been learned’

Town council recommends planning application for Fraser Park is rejected

Left in limbo: Specialist school for excluded pupils still unsure of its fate

Climate summits in the West as concerns grow in the North over lack of action

NN comment: Northampton should be regarded as a heritage town with the Market Square at its core

Friday brief: The Russia-linked donations taken by three Northamptonshire MPs

Misogyny as a hate crime

Two lost and the futures of a few hanging in the balance

‘Inappropriate behaviour’ and ‘offensive language’: The company hired to improve Northampton Market Square

More staff needed to work at county’s mental health trust

Queensway: 'It feels as if the voluntary sector has been left to run things'

Avondale Grange: ‘A knife seems to be the must have accessory’

Talavera: ‘It feels neglected around here’

Hazel Leys and Kingswood: ‘We can't keep being self sufficient'

Kings Heath: ‘I won’t go out at night’ 

Friday brief: Spend of borough council involved in miscarriage of justice lawsuit revealed

‘Give power to local communities’ says new report

Excluded: Specialist school under threat after local education authority pulls out pupils

Universal Credit cut: ‘I don’t know what I’m going to do’

A few dozen charging points and almost a quarter of a million cars 

Friday brief: Concerns as some staff leave North unitary to join the West

‘It’s a kick in the teeth’: Union consults members over pay at academy trust

Protest planned against Wellingborough MP’s ‘inhumane’ asylum seeker bill

New unitary councils breach government’s transparency code

Special report: Is Northamptonshire children's services improving quickly enough?

Friday brief: Murder-suicide update

Long-awaited bypass step closer

Overcrowded and no longer fit for purpose  

West Northants welcomes up to 180 more Afghan refugees

Mandatory vaccinations: Northants could face care staff crisis

Will a council’s constitution lead to more public protests?

Friday brief: Will any Afghan families by rehomed in the north of the county?

Levelling Up: ‘We were getting it wrong before’ says Northants Police DCI

Former council leader resigns from North unitary

Delay for Northamptonshire’s garden village

The rise of the local independent food scene

Wellingborough teen launches campaign for bike track in memory of Dylan

Levelling Up: North Northants Council takes action 

Northamptonshire prepares to welcome Afghan refugees

The battle to save Weekley Hall Woods reaches the council chamber

Wellingborough knife protest: 'People need to know what is happening here'

Friday brief: Cobblers investigation accused due in court today

Lawsuit pub could be saved by parish council

Exclusive: Miscarriage of justice landlord sues council for up to £14m damages

'The staff are at breaking point'

Kristina Rihanoff: From Vladivostok to Northampton

Another stabbing on our county’s streets

Levelling Up: An interview with the leader of West Northants Council

Wellingborough stabbing: A community responds

How far has the University of Northampton come in becoming more sustainable?

North unitary agrees new plan to tackle homelessness

Friday brief: Ombudsman upholds more than a dozen complaints against former county council  

Sold for a loss: Another bad deal by the Mackintosh regime

The West, North divide

‘Unless I want to live under a rock, I’ve got no choice’

‘Art shouldn’t be exclusive’

Friday brief: Council tax chaos in West Northants

New series: Levelling Up

Complaints about GP access in Northants double

‘Would this happen in a posher part of town? I don’t think so’

Have your say on the most extensive masterplan for Northamptonshire in a generation

Friday brief: What a mess

Exclusive: Notorious child killer possible suspect in Sean McGann murder

Northants Greens welcome new global alliance on climate change

New councils hiring as staff give notice

Covid: Restrictions lift as cases continue to soar

It's the summer holidays: Here's our What's On guide

Another highly paid consultant at West Northamptonshire Council

The unprofitable business interests of Northamptonshire Council’s leader

Special report: The care workers struggling to survive on low pay

Update: Northampton councillor calls for action following 'left behind’ neighbourhoods report

‘I’m a woman for action not chat I’m afraid’

Friday brief: Inadequate - Kettering General Hospital’s medical care rating downgraded

Fight to save green space spurs on launch of Green Party in Desborough

Priti Patel’s ‘nasty’ Borders Bill

Scandal-hit borough council’s hefty spend with town’s rugby club

Northamptonshire's 'left behind' areas

Friday brief: Legal action against new unitary authority

‘Disrespectful’ - promise to honour Wellingborough’s first Black Mayor broken

Revealed: West Northants Council is paying agency just under £1,000 a day for one officer

‘It was an absolutely chaotic experience’

Special report: The masonic presence within Northamptonshire’s public life

Northampton Labour councillor fined £4k over fly-tipping issue

Weekly brief: Cabinet member misses first executive meeting due to holiday

Do we need better regulations of HMOs in Northamptonshire?

'Speculation is rife'

Where's the contract for unorthodox bus depot purchase?

'My experience shows why the Police and Crime Bill is so dangerous'

Northampton murder victim member of the town’s homeless community

Town centre housing development scheme would 'undermine' regeneration hopes say officers

Possible Northampton ward by-election as Labour councillor fails to sign vital paperwork

When gambling becomes a problem

Lockdown lift decision day

Friday brief - Commissioners have their final word

Family affairs and political ties

All you need to know about proposed boundary changes

New council to scrap former borough’s decision to buy university building

‘We’re seeing more knives in schools than ever before’

Senior Conservative expelled from party over bullying allegations

Northamptonshire’s e-scooter journey so far

‘More and more people were being detained or disappearing’

Father of seven who took his own life was failed says widow

Roots of the Windrush scandal go much further back than we think

Calls made for a dedicated youth service in the wake of a Corby teen’s murder

Rumoured coup falls flat as North unitary’s first meeting goes without a hitch

Wellingborough MP to meet train company over changes to service

‘I’ve dreamed of playing football since I was 11 - now I can’

Ballot re-run sees deputy leader toppled

Friday Brief: North unitary venue hire cost tops West by thousands

What’s happening with the Cobblers East Stand development?

Can a beloved green valley in Desborough be saved?

Revealed: First West Northants Council meeting costs more than £8k

'To not believe your own eyes is a very strange feeling'

If Labour wants to win again it needs a bold vision for the future

Covid Indian variant reaches Northants

Tory infighting mars West Northants leadership battle

West Northants Tory leadership hopeful suspended 

The rise of the Green Party

Where are all the women?

Conservatives elect new leader of North Northamptonshire Council

New town councils elected

Election 2021: Northants remains blue

Failure rewarded: What can we make of Northamptonshire's election results?

Live Blog: Election results 2021

Weekly Friday brief: It’s results day

Polling day: Who will control Northamptonshire’s new councils?

Should Corby’s best school be educating more of the town's children?

Local elections 2021: The manifestos

Eight council chambers - but not one big enough to hold our new councils

West Northants hustings: Library cuts ‘were an act of community vandalism’

Father's fight to get his daughter the mental health treatment she needs

Northampton Labour candidate kicked out of party

Vaccine queue jumping happening in Northants

Inspectors condemn failing psychiatric hospital

Environmental issues dominate election hustings

Ex cop jailed for lying stands for election in Wellingborough

Elections 2021: Where do the parties stand on the environment

Encouraging the county’s EU citizens to vote

NN Journal hosts election hustings 

Meet some of the new candidates standing in the local election

Redundancy axe falls within Northamptonshire’s two new councils

The charity helping to change the lives of female offenders

The candidates who want your vote

Poet laureate to reopen 'saved' Northants library

Covid passports: What you need to know

Boohoo comes to Northants - but can the company repair its reputation?

Question marks over another Northampton Borough Council deal

University still affected by cyber attack fallout

Deliveroo Investigation: Update

More than 2,000 council seats up for grabs next month

The women who want to become the new police commissioner

Harry Dunn’s family calls for action after Northants Police chief's 'shocking' tweet

The wedding's definitely off

More improvements needed to protect Northamptonshire's vulnerable children

Investigation: Northampton Deliveroo riders speak out

Police investigate after University of Northampton suffers cyber attack

Fears Northampton university hit by cyber attack as major IT failure stops lessons

Controversial badger cull on its way to Northamptonshire

Homeless man who died in hotel was failed by the authorities

Hospital corrects record on election leaflet misinformation

Stop and Search: Is it working?

Serving councillors who approved ill-fated Cobblers loan recommended for honours

'I will not be the woman who stays silent'

Weddings cancelled due to neighbour dispute

'Mass circulation brought in bucket loads of advertising and the paper grew like Topsy'

Outrage as council tax bills land on doormats of Corby’s low income families

Climate change on the agenda

‘We can forgive but never forget’

Residents still catching Covid and dying in Northamptonshire’s care homes

From a Northampton council estate to the Houses of Parliament

The pandemic through the eyes of young people

New conduct complaint against police commissioner

‘Disappointing’ Government response to Cobblers loan scandal

Under threat library to become maternity hub

A year of Covid in Northamptonshire

Mixed feelings about schools going back next week

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‘A sorry state of affairs’: Council responds to damning Cobblers report

Northampton Borough Council’s last big deal

Police take away homeless man’s car

Four weeks underground

Hundreds of Northants residents denied self-isolation support

District nurses under pressure

‘It’s been an incredibly difficult year’: How B&Bs are surviving the pandemic

Corby’s Covid Crisis

BAME communities urged to get Covid vaccine

Northants Police urged to stop racist trolls using its Facebook site

Northamptonshire’s hidden problem with honour based abuse

Financial pressures from the start - the budgets of Northamptonshire’s two new councils

'I want us to be a council that people are proud to work for'

Northampton’s Proud LGBT+ Past

Vaccine doses and costs

Should the chancellor extend the Universal Credit uplift?

'It was like the Great Escape'

How Black Lives Matter protests sparked a new social movement in Northants

Have Northamptonshire’s commissioners been worth it?

Football club loan scandal raised in House of Lords

Update: Health bosses rule out vaccine team causing Wellingborough care home outbreak

Cause of Covid-19 outbreak Wellingborough care home under investigation

'Unlawful': New report published into missing football club loan scandal

'I was very lucky. If I hadn't of left I'd be dead'

Teacher who quit academy takeover school speaks out

'We’re not living, we’re existing': Harry Dunn’s mum on her fight for justice

Comment: Exploring Northamptonshire's Black debt

'Act now for spring and summer freedoms' urges director of public health

The mixed fortunes of Northamptonshire’s new town councils

Covid fines - Is Northants Police getting it right?

'Nobody could say goodbye and that hurts'

‘It’s so wet and cold out here’: Homeless during a pandemic

Weekly brief: More than 4,800 Northants Covid cases in last seven days

Will Northamptonshire's electorate finally get to the polling station?

'Huge growth in need for emergency interventions': How Covid crisis has hit local charities

The bullying problem within Wellingborough Conservatives

Homeless Northants man living in car for six years

Weekly brief: 20,000 Northants residents get vaccine

Exclusive: Corby's town centre regeneration bid revealed

How the pandemic galvanised a town to fight to save its woodland

Eleventh hour schools shutdown 

The rise of far right extremism in Northamptonshire

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