West Northamptonshire

Cotton End, Northampton

MAJOR INCIDENT declared with Storm Bert leading to 'significant' flooding

Concerns have been raised over childhood vaccination rates across Northamptonshire

Concerns over childhood vaccination rates in Northamptonshire

Wait times for children trying to access treatment within child mental health services in Northamptonshire have halved since last year.

Wait times for child mental health treatment halves since last year

Commsave's new app is designed to support people with their financial education

New financial education app launched by Northamptonshire credit union

Multiply

Free short courses for West Northants residents

Financial vulnerability

More than 1 in 3 Northamptonshire people are financially vulnerable

Openreach's Kasam Hussain

Openreach powers Northamptonshire’s digital future with full fibre rollout

These secondary schools are among Northamptonshire's best

Northamptonshire's 9 best-performing state secondary schools

Care leavers discuss apprenticeships at last years event

Could your business make a difference to care experienced young adults in Northa...

Preliminary illustrative masterplans for the Kettering Energy Park site.
Credit: First Renewables

North Northants Council raises concerns over government's new planning changes

2024 Lloyds Bank Tour of Britain by Kirsty Edmonds

Hundreds line streets as Lloyds Bank Tour of Britain sprints through county

The peloton during the 2023 Tour of Britain cycle race

One week to go until the Lloyds Bank Tour of Britain Men arrives in West Northan...

Northamptonshire's councils have responded to the proposals to build more new houses in the county

Councils react to proposals to build more than 4,500 homes a year in the county

The Tour of Britain will come to Northampton in September. Photo: SWpix.com.

Northampton to host stage of men’s international cycling race Tour of Britain

Healthy Life Expectancy

East Midlands county with longest healthy life expectancy revealed

Jordan Sclater/ a Voi scooter/ Mr Sclater's bruised foot/UGC

Rushden man left with shock and broken foot Voi scooter pavement collision
A Rushden man has been left unable to work after an e-scooter rider and passenger crashed into him on the pavement
Alison Bagley

Lorraine and Lee Lewis, awarded Rose of Northamptonshire Awards in 2023

Unsung heroes across the county to be honoured with Rose of Northamptonshire Awa...

Danielle Stone

Labour's Danielle Stone elected as the new police and fire commissioner

Emma Reeve, 32, from Daventry, a mother-of-three, pictured together with her youngest son, eight-year-old Frankie.

Northamptonshire councils see sharp rise in homeschooling over the last decade

Cllr Helen Howell (NNC) and Cllr Daniel Lister (WNC) at the Northamptonshire Tourism Strategy launch at Rushden Lakes /National World

Northamptonshire councils join forces to boost county tourism

Lib Dem Ana Savage Gunn (left) has announced her candidacy for the Police Fire and Crime Commissioner. Stephen Mold (right) currently holds the position. (Credit: West Northants Liberal Democrats & North Northants Liberal Democrats / Office of Police

Lib Dem and Labour candidates for police fire and crime commissioner announced

The two viaducts holding HS2 railway tracks 20 metres high over the River Tame and the M42 motorway will be supported by 32 giant piers and run for 700m and is part of HS2’s complex Delta Junction over existing roads and rivers. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

£149m of HS2 cash heading to North Northamptonshire for transport schemes

Badger caught in school goal netting

Badger tied in knots in Northamptonshire school football goal netting.

SERVE and ABILITY have partnered to improve transport options and access for disabled and disadvantaged residents in Northamptonshire

Pair of Northamptonshire transport services given cash grant to help disabled

The Vulcan Creatives cohort and Darren Smith (far right)

Ten Northamptonshire businesses selected for inaugural incubation programme for ...

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Jobcentre Work Coaches are changing lives for the better

Thousands of new homes have been given the green light in Northamptonshire this year.

17 major housing projects which have been approved by councils in 2023
More than 3,000 homes have been given the green light in major housing projects the last 12 months
Nadia Lincoln

Both councils say they are 'disappointed' with the local government funding announced for 2024/25

Councils 'disappointed' with local government funding for 2024/25

Northamptonshire Community Foundation's Warm this Winter appeal

Local charity starts winter appeal to keep elderly neighbours fed, warm and well

Rob Beckett presented the award to Vulcan Works and West Northamptonshire Council

Northamptonshire hub for businesses wins award for ‘fostering innovation’

A report sent to both West and North Northamptonshire Councils in early October revealed that they would respectively receive £3m and £2.6m less in Dedicated School Grant (DSG) funding for mainstream schools.

Schools to be significantly worse off after government funding technical error

Pictured: (back l-r) Kath Hall from NHFT, Clare Lewis from North Northamptonshire Public Health, Mat

Look out for the brown leather sofa around Northamptonshire

Corby Urgent Care Centre

Independent body finds Corby’s Urgent Care Centre ‘very good’

Nicci Marzec and Stephen Mold /Northamptonshire OFPCC

Union calls for fire commissioner's resignation

L-r Jack Pishhorn (NNC Strategic Lead for Culture, Tourism and Heritage), Rachel Gillis (VistEngland), Cllr Helen Howell (NNC)

Tourism hub opens at Rushden Lakes

Exactly how many homeless people died in Northants in last five years

Northamptonshire councils spend more than £300 million on providing adult social care in 2021-22 — but think tank Nuffield Health warns it is not enough

How much our councils spends on adult social care - and why more is needed

Operator Stagecoach has confirmed its bus fares across Northampton, Kettering and Corby will increase from Monday (December 4)

Stagecoach blames soaring costs for second hike in bus fares this year

Pictured right is 31-year-old Keelan Harris, who began receiving help from the Hope Centre around a month ago after becoming homeless in Rushden and sleeping in a tent for four months.

Hope Centre offers one of 67 warm spaces giving lifeline to those in need

Official figures showed nearly 300 private renters and homeowners in Northamptonshire faced evictions in just three months this summer

Cost of Living crisis: How many people faced evictions in Northants this summer

Women's rights charity the Fawcett Society is calling on on Government to help women into higher-paying jobs

Women in Northamptonshire are working for NOTHING from now until 2023

Figures from charity the Trussell Trust showed nearly 13,000 food parcels were handed out in six months to September at its five foodbanks in Northamptonshire

Charity warns of 'tsunami of need' as thousands more turn to county foodbanks

Public service union UNISON warns Northamptonshire councils face £40 million deficits next year — but that figure could grow after Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's budget

Union warns of county councils’ £40m deficit as Bank hikes interest rate

More than one in ten of the five-year-olds across Northamptonshire have not had both MMR jabs, according to NHS figures

Children at risk of measles, mumps and rubella as hundreds miss out on vaccine

Health chiefs are promoting Stoptober 2022 to encourage smokers in Northamptonshire to quit for the good of their health and wealth

Stoptober 2022: Quit now for good of your health and wealth, message to smokers

Government figures have highlighted the number of families threatened with homelessness in Northamptonshire

Hundreds of county households with children threatened with homelessness

Covid deaths in Northamptonshire peaked during the early days of the pandemic as hospitals were inundated with patients during April 2020

Covid’s ‘grim human toll’ revealed as figures show 1,771 more deaths than normal

All Saints Church in Northampton hosted a remembrance service for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on Sunday September 18. Pews were full as hundreds attended to pay their respects.

In pictures: Queen Elizabeth II remembered during 'moving' service at All Saints

Energy bills will rise against on October 1

Why PM’s energy plan is an 'expensive sticking plaster' for 38,000 county homes

Morcea Walker (pictured), who was appointed as Vice Lord Lieutenant in January, is taking a step up from her role as Healthwatch’s vice chair.

Northamptonshire’s Vice Lord Lieutenant appointed as Healthwatch interim chair

CPI inflation reached 10.1 percent in July, according to the Office for National Statistics

More county firms sign up to ‘real’ living wage as inflation hits 10.1 percent

The number of drug-related deaths in Northamptonshire more than doubled last year, according to ONS data

Charities call for action as drug deaths double in Northamptonshire

Property prices continued to rise across Northamptonshire in May — but experts warn a slowdown may be coming

County house prices rising, but for how long as cost of living crisis bites?

Nearly 20,000 children are eligible for free school meals in Northamptonshire — but campaigners want government to make help available to more people

One in six pupils get free school meals, but Labour says it’s not enough

Mark Jones (left) alongside commissioner Stephen Mold during last week's confirmation panel meeting at Northampton Guildhall

New county fire chief confirmed after grilling from councillors