William Carter

Pret a Manger is coming to Rushden Lakes soon with renovations under way to refit one of the boardwalk units in the shopping complex.

Organisers of the Halloween trail and animal handling workshop in Rushden have praised the event as a success, calling them ‘a wonderful showcase of community spirit.’

The time of year to remember those who gave their life in battle is here, with people up and down the country donning poppies in aid of the Royal British Legion.

Diwali, the Hindu festival of light, was celebrated by hundreds at the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Mill Road last week with vibrant colours, sounds and flavours.

Detectives are appealing for witnesses after a passenger suffered a serious assault on a bus in Kettering.

An exhibition detailing the lives and military exploits of local Higham Ferrers heroes, including one instrumental suffragette, will be held the day before Remembrance Sunday.

Ermergency services were called following a collision on the A45 near Wellingborough today (Thursday).

No matter how you look at it, no matter what you believe, the events of the first week of November 2024 will go down in history, if there is anyone

About two weeks ago I started to get worried about this particular column. Oh, I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking there’s no way someone leading the glamorous lifestyle of a twice-a-month columnist for a small-town local newspaper could be worried about such a trivial thing. It’s true, though. Between tripping over all the empty caviar jars (does that stuff come in jars or do you squeeze it fresh from the fish?), polishing up the bling, consulting with financial advisors, and fighting off the paparazzi and autograph hounds, we writers for small town papers have to occasionally descend from the mountaintop and face the horrible reality of coming up with something new for a holiday column.

This past Saturday as I inched — really, I was inching — my way through the horrifying snarl of post-Christmas parade traffic that strangled the streets of downtown Franklin like some huge, metallic beast I, naturally, dusted off some of my choicest cuss words and directed them toward, well, I don’t really know who I was directing them toward but, nonetheless, it felt good to cuss.