Marking National Apprenticeship Week
To mark National Apprenticeship Week campaigners and businesses across Northamptonshire have joined together to make the case for apprenticeships to young people looking to take their first steps into...
View ArticleStudents enjoy visit from Cummins staff
An engineering firm in Daventry has visited a secondary school to help students with a project.Workers from Cummins went to Guilsborough School for a visit connected to the Big Bang and UK Scientists...
View Article‘Blade bin’ comes to Long Buckby as police aim to get knives off the streets
Officers from Northamptonshire Police will be at Long Buckby Fire Station today as part of the force’s month-long knife amnesty. Officers will be at Long Buckby Fire Station from 2pm to 4pm with a...
View Articlehief constable has ‘no case to answer’ for failed murder inquiry
A probe into the suspected failings of a 2002 murder investigation has revealed Northamptonshire Chief Constable Adrian Lee has ‘no case to answer’, according to his boss.Over the past four years the...
View ArticleDyslexia workshops to help parents support their children
A new initiative to support parents of dyslexic children, launched at Daventry and District Welfare Foundation on New Street, is already providing help and advice.The Northamptonshire Dyslexic...
View ArticleScouts raise Comic Relief cash
The 4th Daventry Scout Group raised £230 for Comic Relief by selling cakes and red noses at Daventry Farmers’ Market on Saturday, February 28. They also managed to sell 80 red noses. The scout group...
View ArticlePartnership with council to boost education in area
An alliance has been formed between a livery company in London and Northamptonshire County Council (NCC) to help schools, business and charities in the area.The council is working with the London-based...
View ArticleTriple success
Some of Daventry’s most talented photographers were honoured at the annual general meeting of the town’s photographic society on Tuesday, March 3. Linda Wilson from Hellidon was awarded for her...
View ArticleSchool campaign receives backing
The head of the Parker E-ACT academy has given his support to the Gusher’s new Daventry Schools Matter campaign. Launched last week, Daventry Schools Matter aims to highlight the good work being done...
View ArticlePeople urged to feed the ducks responsibly
The Canal & River Trust is calling for people in the Daventry district to feed the ducks responsibly.Every year 6 million loaves of bread are being thrown into canals and rivers in England and...
View ArticleUKIP objectives set out at election launch
Supporters of UKIP gathered at the Cross Roads Hotel in Weedon on Saturday to mark the launch of the election campaign of its Daventry branch. The event was attended by several councillors affiliated...
View ArticleFundraisers needed to help out local good cause
The Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance (WNAA) is seeking to recruit more volunteers to help promote the organisation.The charity say current volunteers are in poor health and need help to...
View ArticleTyres slashed in Daventry
Vandals have slashed the tyres of a car parked on a Daventry street twice in the space of three days.A Renault Clio parked in Trinity Close first had all four of its tyres slashed on Friday, March...
View ArticlePolice hunting for vandal who stabbed to death and mutilated sheep in...
A sheep was mutilated and killed by a vandal who broke into a field near a village close to Northampton.Police are investigating after a sheep was stabbed to death and cut up in a field off Bugbrooke...
View ArticlePolice urge caution after rings are taken in roadside scam
A wedding ring and eternity ring were taken during an incident in Weedon on Monday.Police have reported two women in a dark coloured car approached the female victim who was walking along the street....
View ArticleMore than 700 drivers in Northamptonshire fined £100 for using mobile phone...
Almost £80,000 worth of fines were handed out by Northamptonshire Police officers in the year after the new ‘careless driving’ offences were introduced two years ago, new figures show.Data released...
View ArticleBody found after fire hits Haverhill house
A body has been recovered from the scene of a house fire in Haverhill.Police were called by a member of the public at around 2.30am this morning with reports that a residential property in Bellings...
View ArticleKnife amnesty carried out by police
Northamptonshire Police have been out and about in the Daventry district with a knife bin as part of a amnesty.The aim is allow people with weapons, including CS spray, to be able to hand them into...
View ArticleWeek in pictures - March 19
Our photographers and readers have been out and about taking pictures of events throughout the week.Here is a selection of them.
View ArticleCounty’s best performing businesses to be revealed
The performance of Northamptonshire’s top 100 privately-owned companies will be under the spotlight again in May when the results of the third in-depth survey into the county’s business scene are...
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