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Taking place from 6pm until 9pm on Thursday, November 19, you are invited to browse 25 independent businesses at Duston Village Bakery's eleventh annual Christmas market.

Popular Christmas market returns next week – here’s all the details

April marked a decade of Lorraine and Lee Lewis’ dedication to bringing comfort, dignity and human connection to adult cancer patients across the region through free gift packs and support visits.

Just days to go until The Lewis Foundation’s fourth annual gala ball

The Northampton Town Centre Business Improvement District (BID), a business-led partnership and non-profit organisation created to make the town centre a more vibrant place, is the latest to issue their response to the Park the Charges campaign.

BID ‘supportive’ of measures to make town centre ‘more attractive’

Local magistrates deal with hundreds of cases each week

Voi e-scooter rider fled after town centre crash among these 43 cases in court

Remembrance Sunday was marked in Northampton town centre

In pictures: Town remembers the fallen on Remembrance Sunday

Prince Harry attends Remembrance Sunday memorial service in Northamptonshire

Brian Cant with children at Highfield School, Northampton, June 1983

25 pictures from the past: Faces of Northampton over four decades

Jack and Sam English are working together to bring a new golf and social venue to their hometown, with SIM Club set to open at Peterbridge House at The Lakes in early 2027.

Brothers join to open venue with golf simulator bays and darts

Hanslope Road, Hartwell, guide price £5,600,000

£5.6million farm with business complex generating £135,000 a year up for sale

The next non-sold-out event being hosted by Gs Private Dining and The Vault Cocktail Lounge is G’s Christmas Supper Club, with live jazz music performed by Sarah Jones.

Market town businesses collaborate on popular Christmas supper club

Our Park the Charges campaign is calling for free parking at all council-owned multi-storey and surface car parks, as well as the premium on-street parking, on Saturdays and Sundays from November 21 until December 20 – as well as Christmas Eve for last minute shoppers.

WNC says scrapping parking charges is ‘not a sustainable solution’

Ezekiel Williams/KTFC

Tributes paid to former footballer, 26, who died following attack

Animals In Need in Little Irchester has been shortlisted as a finalist in the Rescue Pet Awards 2026

Animal rescue charity named among UK's top five shelters in national awards

Bridge Street

The downfall of Bridge Street as council acknowledges 'concerns'

Your ultimate fireworks guide across Northamptonshire for 2026

Northamptonshire fireworks displays 2026: Your ultimate guide

£12m STACK Northampton works have paused until the New Year, according to West Northants Council

£12m STACK project delayed until New Year as two venues in the country scrapped
Work on the delayed £12m STACK development in Northampton has stopped, with the next phase not expected to begin until the New Year.
Logan MacLeod

Gemma Hyams, from Welford, said she was walking along Bridge Street with her daughter at about 1.45pm on Monday (November 2) when a man approached them from behind and began making small talk.

'He tried to drag my daughter away': Mum's terror after visit to town

Northampton Magistrates' Court

COURT ROUND-UP: 40 offenders sentenced from in and around Northampton, Daventry

Spread opened on Adnitt Road in Abington in January 2023, less than three years after grazing tables and boxes kickstarted the business for founder Amy Adams.

Refurb nearly done for sandwich shop with reopening date coming soon

A Northampton man has been sentencing for harassing speed van operatives.

Man sentenced for harassment after approaching speed van operatives

Northampton General Hospital.

Union raises formal trade dispute amid AI job cuts consultation at NGH

CCTV image released after charity cyclist's bike stolen

Police would like to speak to the man in the image.

CCTV image released after sledgehammer used to break into flat

What we want to see is free parking at all council-owned multi-storey and surface car parks, as well as the premium on-street parking, on Saturdays and Sundays from November 21 until December 20 – as well as Christmas Eve for last minute shoppers.

Chron calls for WNC to SCRAP town centre Christmas parking charges

Althorp Coaching Inn in Little Brington won the Most Dog Friendly Pub.

REVEALED: All the winners in the Daventry Constituency Best Pub Awards 2026

Northampton residents could face £500 fines under new anti-social behaviour rules

Residents could face £500 fines under THREE new anti-social behaviour rules

Steve Reid

Market trader told to leave £13.5m square days after submitting complaint
A Northampton market trader has been told to leave the Market Square days after submitting a formal complaint about the management of the market.
Logan MacLeod

The CGI images show how 11 areas of Northampton could look under West Northamptonshire Council’s billion-pound town centre masterplan, with proposals ranging from new homes and public spaces to improved walking and cycling routes, riverside attractions and restored heritage buildings. The pictures offer a glimpse of how the town could be transformed in the years ahead.

PICTURES: Look at how 11 areas could be transformed under WNC's masterplan

TMI Foods, Lodge Way, Northampton

Fire at major food manufacturing company on Northampton industrial estate

Northamptonshire Police received a report of criminal damage and burglary at a business premises – DSV – in the Brackmills area of Northampton on Friday (October 30).

Warehouse operated by logistics giant targeted by reported Palestine protesters

Weston Favell Shopping Centre was awarded diversity and inclusion scheme of the year at the Retail Destination SCEPTRE Awards 2026.

Popular shopping centre wins diversity award for wellbeing groups

Kathleen Faulkner will turn 104 on November 15, and it is the plan of daughter-in-law Tammy and care home manager Christie to give her a special surprise.

Help this soon-to-be 104-year-old receive 104 cards on her birthday

Annie Marriott receiving a cheque from Tony Oconner from Kingsthorpe Waitrose

'Delighted': Northampton shoppers help raise £4,500 for Animals In Need

Kaspa’s Desserts, in The Drapery, was given a food hygiene rating of just one out of five following an inspection by West Northamptonshire Council on April 16.

Why popular dessert shop was given one-star hygiene rating

West Northamptonshire Council is asking councillors to approve a new plan for Northampton town centre, which includes proposals for new homes, improved streets and public spaces, and a major makeover of the riverside.

Billions needed to transform 11 areas of Northampton in council's new masterplan

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Man who took his own life was 'let down' by mental health services

Syl Rielly organiser of the community Corby Fireworks display /IMG

Northamptonshire fireworks event cancelled at 11th hour over safety concerns

Mark Crowther is raising money for Every Mind Matters

Charity cyclist 'blown away' by support after bike stolen in Northampton

Police were called to the incident on the opposite side of the A43 to Woodmeadow Garden Centre between Northampton and Kettering yesterday (November 2)

Car swerves off A43 for 'unknown reasons' in Northamptonshire and lands in hedge

The installation of the phone mast by Mitie Telecoms and Ainscough Crane Hire

Mobile phone mast replaced with taller structure as part of 5G network upgrade

Anglian Water

Serious pollution incidents at Anglian Water rise by 71% report reveals

Al Madina Store, in Kettering Road

Shop told to remove large walk-in freezer after planning refusal

Jo Wood will be a judge in Strictly Northampton 2026

Ex-Strictly Come Dancing star Jo Wood will judge for Strictly Northampton 2026

Bridge Street, Northampton

Man, 36, arrested for assault after approaching mother and young child

West Northamptonshire Council has revealed its vision for Daventry town centre

Major plans to breathe new life into town centre as council reveals vision

Turnpike Beefeater in Harpole

Closed Northampton pub set to reopen under new management

Obelisk House in Northampton is one of the homes earmarked for closure

Care homes and supported living facility could close under council plans

John Greatorex will bring a selection of family rides to the Market Square throughout WinterFest, including a traditional Ferris wheel, offering views across Northampton town centre.

WinterFest: Festive lights, local gifts, big wheel, cinema and choir announced

Emily Askew runs NorthantsHour, which has been promoting what’s on, where to go and what to do across the county for 13 years and her latest venture From Socials launched in September.

Founder of popular Northants discovery platform launches marketing company

The popular Derngate pub reopened over the weekend (Friday, October 30)

In pictures: Popular Northampton town centre pub reopens under new landlady

Plans have been submitted to build up to 255 homes on land west of Ashby Road in Daventry.

Plans submitted to build 255 homes on farmland the size of 28 football pitches

The former Aspers Casino in Northampton where police uncovered a £3.2 million cannabis factory is up for sale.

Former casino – where £3.2m cannabis factory was found – goes up for sale

Almost 200 members of Northampton Sun Club were told in June that their monthly naked swimming sessions at Mounts Baths had been cancelled.

Update issued on naked swimming at pool after 44-year tradition was stopped

Police were called to Duston Community Centre where 150 teenagers arrived thinking there was a Halloween party at the venue

Police issue dispersal order after 150 teenagers turn up to fake Halloween party

The incident happened at the Second Hand Goods furniture store off the Barrack Road at around 10.50am on Tuesday, October 27.

Woman smashes up shop window after demanding refund

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