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Plans to sell off historic market hall put on hold after councillor scrutiny

Friday brief: Reform UK councillor quartet come out against warehouse and energy park

Council's leisure services likely to be bought back in house

Interim council boss set for permanent role

Northampton MP loses role as Burnham becomes PM

Friday brief: Arrests made after teenager killed in Northampton

Did Michael Thompson kill another woman before his wife Kim?

Michael Thompson found guilty of murdering his wife

Finally! After years of under performance, Northamptonshire children’s services rated good

Friday brief: ‘Only show in town’ plan for arson hit historic hall gains partial approval

Thompson's lawyer says prosecutors cannot prove to the criminal standard his wife was killed

Councillors walk out over ‘pre-prepared’ speeches in ‘shambles’ scrutiny meeting

Friday brief: Scientists will analyse whether Corby’s land is polluted by heavy metals

Northampton murder trial: Defence plays jury messages of victim declaring she ‘loves everything’ about the husband accused of her murder

Kim Thompson retracted statement made to domestic abuse centre about ‘abusive’ husband

Failing mental health charity under statutory inquiry

Friday brief: Murder suspect tells police they have no evidence he killed his wife

Northampton murder trial: Suspect accused wife of being 'pathological liar'

'My question is what are we going to do about it?'

Police interview of murder suspect accused of killing wife, played to jury

Friday Brief: Northants Reform UK run councils clock up biggest ever overspends as long running problems remain

Northampton murder trial: Unhappy domestic life of Thompsons revealed in texts and messages

New council chairman stands down after NN Journal investigation

Northampton murder trial: Pathologist tells jury he believes Kimberley Thompson died by suffocation

Friday brief: Council ditches controversial library and gallery rebrand after hearing ‘the noise locally’

Murder accused threatened to tamper with estranged wife’s car brakes, court hears

Commissioner demands chief constable put improvement plan on her desk as soon as possible, after critical inspection

Northampton murder trial: Kim Thompson's colleague tells jury accused husband strangled her

Friday brief: ‘If anything happens to me, please know it was him’

Northampton murder trial: ‘He had threatened to kill her so many times, it just became normal.’

Northampton murder trial: ‘I can’t wake my wife up’

Northampton mum murdered in home by husband who then tried to fake her suicide, court hears

Large solar farm proposed for disused WWII airfield

Jury sworn in for murder trial of Northampton man accused of killing estranged wife

Reform UK sexist remark councillor expected not to be made chairman

Calls for by-election to replace 'inactive' Reform UK councillor

Friday brief: Northants Labour MP says party needs to ‘debate radical policies’ while another is appointed to the cabinet

Two new inquiries launched into charities linked to Northants care home

Councillor funding pot scrapped despite pleas to ditch the ‘mean spirited’ policy

Friday brief: Troubling times for Corby Town FC as co-owner quits amid youth and girls teams exodus

Parish councillor reported by MP to police over 'threatening' social media posts

The woman on a bike called Margaret

Friday brief: Slow progress on high street pilot project

Can the Greens win a seat on West Northamptonshire Council?

Public inquiry campaigners secure cash for second water test round

Not fine! Council issues apology after parking charge bungle

Friday brief: More reprimands for Northants police officers who acted unprofessionally

Leadership challenge councillor kicked out of the cabinet

Huge overspends once again in Northants children's services budget

Friday brief: PC sacked for social messages to domestic abuse victim, granted anonymity due to mental health

Northants senior police officer and two staff criminally investigated about ‘perverting the course of justice’ allegations

Who’s going to take the Reform leadership?

Council spends £1m fighting legal battles with SEN families

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

Charity that owes £1.6m to the taxman enters administration

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

Friday brief: Charity Commission investigation widens to Northampton gallery

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

More change within council’s turbulent education department

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

Charity regulator removes trustees from care home amid financial mismanagement inquiry

Council documents suggest Corby’s toxic quarry site is leaking

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

‘Some women should have never left the kitchen’

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

Friday brief: Offensive incident at village Ramadan event

West unitary leader dismisses Labour leader's call for more women in top jobs as 'toxic identity politics'

MP ‘not surprised’ about council’s poor adult services rating, referencing ‘troubling cases’

Former West unitary cabinet member and colleague quit Reform UK to go independent

Friday brief: Council accused of 'balancing books on backs of small businesses'

Equalities charity threatens legal action over controversial flags

Capital punishment, the nuclear family and active discrimination: The views of North Northamptonshire’s far right councillor

Desborough mayor says he’s will not quit after fellow councillors stage walk out

Friday brief: Local Green Party leader claims thousands in allowances while on foreign travel adventure

Two Northants Reform UK councillors quit party to join new rival

‘Serious questions over lack of transparency’ as popular council car park declared ‘surplus’ and faces sell off

U-turn on parking charge proposals

Friday brief: crime commissioner still drawing a blank on new Corby police station despite public pledge

Pregnant tenant housed in rat infested temporary accommodation contracts potentially deadly infection

Tory quits North Northamptonshire Council and goes to Reform

Friday brief: Reform UK accused of ‘misleading maths’ over market ice rink ‘success’

‘Serious concerns’ as Northants Police did not receive any developer money in last year

Council deputy leader’s company took large sums from investors before firm folded with zero sales

Friday brief: Council investigation finds no evidence childhood cancer rates are higher in Corby

Council deleted councillor bath footage

Chief constable contempt case costs exceed £250,000 so far, reveals force

Friday brief: Authorities accused of cover up, as they decide not to take action over polluted water findings

Northants Police officers may have to start declaring if they are freemasons, as review commences

Town council says it is taking Corby’s environmental concerns ‘very seriously’ and is seeking answers from the North unitary

Friday brief: Northants charity that owes £1.6m to the tax office appears in high court

‘No case to answer’ says council leader after MPs call for suspension of councillor

Reform UK councillor exposed in racist dating site leak says he would ‘never have knowingly chosen to be a member’

Locals have proved there are heavy metals in Corby’s freshwater - so what happens now?

Friday brief: Police crime panel dismissed as ‘toothless tiger’

Councillor responsible for West Northants children’s services steps down

‘It bears all the scars of bad regeneration’

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