Alison Bagley

The Red Lion at Cranford has been named the best country pub at Great British Pub Awards 2026 with staff celebrating the win at a glitzy ceremony in Leeds.

New bin lorries to enable North Northants Council to collect food waste from households in Kettering and Wellingborough are due to be delivered within the next two weeks, heralding the start of a new kerbside service.

A new memorial commemorating seven airmen killed in a Flying Fortress which crashed in Stoke Albany during a secret wartime test flight in Northamptonshire has been unveiled.

A driver has been arrested after an incident left a motorcyclist seriously injured after a collsion on a Corby roundabout on Sunday (July 19).

Reform UK’s Cllr Andy Sims, North Northamptonshire Council member for Finedon, has been elected to serve as chairman of the council until May 2027.

Raunds Asda has closed after thieves used a telehandler to rip the free-standing cash machine ATM from the site overnight.

A Higham Ferrers-based specialist recruitment consultancy will be exhibiting at a county careers fair to put a spotlight on jobs in the construction industry.

Thousands of people have joined in the annual Kettering festival KettFest celebration of arts, culture and music.

Eleven drivers have been prosecuted in connection with filming a serious road crash on the A14 last year.

Two people were arrested and equipment seized after an illegal Northamptonshire rave woke up residents and carried on all day.

An e-scooter rider was injured in an attack by dirt bikers in a Wellingborough underpass last Tuesday (June 2).