Posts Tagged ‘ Chronicle & Echo ’

NORTHAMPTON’S crafters are getting creative in time to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
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LIBERAL Democrats fighting for speed cameras to be switched back on were ‘appalled’ when the start of their motion was met with laughter from Conservative politicians.
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A RAPIST serving life for the violent rape of a prostitute in Northampton has been given a second life sentence for similar crimes only months before he could have been considered for parole.
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THOUSANDS of new jobs in Northamptonshire have moved a step closer after planners moved to buy a huge swathe of land near the River Nene.
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THREE Romanian men started breaking into homes in Northampton only a couple of days after arriving in the UK.
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TWO men accused of kidnapping a 22-year-old man from the street and then torturing him have told a jury they were not involved in his ordeal.
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AN illegal immigrant who received Indian Gold jewellery stolen from homes across Northampton has been handed a seven-year jail term.
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ARSONISTS who targeted two homes in the same Northampton street, on the same night with petrol bombs forced an elderly woman to flee her home.
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WORK starts on Monday to open the town’s first 24-hour gym on the site of a troubled former nightclub in Northampton town centre.
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THE heartbroken family of a motorist who died in a high-speed crash, has won a six-figure compensation payout at London’s High Court.
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A FULL size concrete statue of a Staffordshire Bull Terrier was stolen from the porch of a home in Beech Avenue, Northampton.
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BIDS to build wind farms in Northamptonshire are coming in at such a rate that the county alone could meet the entire East Midlands region’s quota for renewable energy if they all come off.
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A WOMAN who drank up to three bottles of wine before getting behind the wheel left a child alone while going to buy more alcohol, a court heard.
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A SUSPECTED murderer from Poland is set to be extradited to his home country after he was arrested during a series of raids by Northamptonshire Police.
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CHANGING rooms at the Racecourse in Northampton, which cost £1 million to build, have been closed for the third time in five years after another outbreak of the bacteria which causes Legionnaires’ disease.
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A FAMILY’s pet dog has been granted a stay of execution after magistrates had ordered it be destroyed for biting a neighbour.
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OFFICIALS from Northampton have said they could take the battle against a new retail park in the east of the county to both the courts and the Government.
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The body of a 57-year-old woman was found at a property in High Street, Milton Malsor on Wednesday night.
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Trained police negotiators successfully talked a 29-year-old man down from a window ledge after he threatened to jump.
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POLICE have named a 30-year-old woman who died in a crash on the A45 near Daventry on Saturday.
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MOTHERS in Northampton are guaranteed breast feeding support for at least the next year at the popular town centre baby cafe, after the outstanding funding to save it was found.
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