Kitchen fire in Daventry
The fire service was called out to Warwick Court in Daventry on Tuesday evening.The alarm was raised at the sheltered housing unit off Warwick Street just before 7.15pm to a small fire in a kitchen.The...
View ArticleCouncil backs freeze on its tax demands
A freeze on Northamptonshire County Council’s share of the council tax has been agreed.NCC’s budget for 2013/14 was agreed at a meeting on Thursday last week.The council’s budget is the second year of...
View ArticleBarrier proposed on Daventry estate road
RESIDENTS on the Timken and Headlands estates are being asked for their views on proposals for a ‘tank trap’ mechanism on the road that connects the two.The mechanism would have the same effect as...
View ArticleJefferson Lake’s Cobblers v Bristol Rovers view and player ratings: Town are...
The old cliché about a good team proving their worth by winning when not playing their best has been very well used in the past two Northampton Town matches.Against Plymouth the Cobblers were some way...
View ArticleNew talks over security network
Keeping the radio network and town centre wardens will be looked into by Daventry Town Council after last week’s failed BID vote.With the Business Improvement District being wound up at the end of...
View ArticlePair sentenced after drunken van crash
A man who got drunk, took the keys to his stepfather’s van and rolled it while speeding has been jailed for eight months.Witnesses described how James Higham was driving at “excessive speed” when he...
View ArticleHackett and Akinfenwa fit for Northampton Town trip to Exeter
The Cobblers’ leading goalscorer Adebayo Akinfenwa and influential winger Chris Hackett will both be available for the trip to Exeter City on Saturday (3pm kick-off).Akinfenwa was susbtituted at...
View ArticleInjured Clark targeting Saints return before end of the season
Calum Clark is hoping to be back in Saints action before the end of the season.The flanker injured his shoulder in Northampton’s Heineken Cup defeat to Glasgow in January.He was forced to undergo an...
View ArticleGame Review: Tomb Raider
When we were first introduced to the voluptuous and iconic Lara Croft, she arrived in games that were fresh and new, even if looking back the older Tomb Raider titles were hard to play because of stiff...
View ArticleFoster unhappy at Daventry performance at Beaconsfield
Daventry Town boss Darran Foster has admitted his team’s performance in Monday night’s 3-1 defeat at Beaconsfield was ‘not acceptable’.Town suffered their second defeat in the space of three days...
View ArticleOddy says Reds’ woes began with Mason departure
Paul Oddy says Phil Mason’s departure was where it all started to go wrong for Woodford United.The Reds go into Saturday’s home game against Uxbridge without a point to their name in the Southern...
View ArticleLabour refuse allowance rise
LABOUR councillors will refuse a 1.5 per cent increase on their basic allowances if it is decided upon at a meeting of the Daventry District Council tonight (Thursday).The recommendation to increase...
View ArticleDrivers targeted in fake jewellery scam
Drivers in the district have been targeted by a scam which has seen them conned into exchanging fake jewellery for money.Police are now warning people to be on the look-out for a group of men reported...
View ArticleChairman Barwell buoyed by success of Saints fans’ forum
Leon Barwell hailed a ‘very productive’ evening at Saints’ season ticket holders’ forum on Thursday night.A total of 250 supporters turned out at Franklin’s Gardens’ Rodber Suite to voice their...
View ArticleIrish flanker Fisher gears up for ‘incredible challenge’ against Saints
London Irish flanker Jonathan Fisher says facing Saints at Franklin’s Gardens on Saturday will be an ‘incredible challenge’.Irish have won just once on the road in the Premiership so far this season...
View ArticleNorthampton Town boss Boothroyd’s a ‘big fan’ of evergreen Exeter striker...
Cobblers manager Aidy Boothroyd says he’s a ‘big fan’ of Exeter City’s leading goalscorer Jamie Cureton, a player he feels is enjoying a new lease of life in the south-west.Cureton will lead the...
View ArticleWoodford hit by Power cut at Chalfont
Paul Oddy has revealed captain for the day Joe Power threw in the towel at half-time during Woodford’s 7-1 thrashing at Chalfont St Peter last weekend.With the Reds 3-0 down at the break and heading...
View ArticleBoss Foster insists he won’t give up on Daventry play-off dream
Daventry Town boss Darran Foster is adamant his players won’t give up on their play-off dream - despite suffering a ‘kick in the teeth’ in their past two games.Foster’s men fell to a 4-3 defeat against...
View ArticleBuckby boss Goodwin happy to be underdog against in-form Huntingdon
Long Buckby boss Scott Goodwin believes Huntingdon Town will expect three points when they head to Station Road this weekend.But Goodwin says his players will relish their underdogs tag and he is...
View ArticleObjections to 30 new homes
RESIDENTS raised concerns and objections to 30 new homes planned for Weedon.The development, off Ordnance Road, known locally as Lovers’ Lane, would see nine affordable homes, and 21 commercial ones...
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