Rushden-based Elsby & Co has been taking part in a series of events during the past month to show teenagers that accountancy does not deserve the ‘dull’ reputation it has suffered from in the past. The firm’s expert team has been spreading the news about its exciting approach to accountancy and apprenticeships at the latest careers fairs at Rushden Academy and Northampton College and held its own Student Open Evening this month. Managing partner Claire Emery, who regularly challenges the...
Now called ‘11 Monarchs & Holdenby’ to include King Charles, it shows how Holdenby has had connection with Kings and Queens. From Elizabeth I, to whom the House was dedicated, James I & Charles I, who owned it, right up to the present monarch. The exhibition includes, amongst many other things, an Elizabethan bible dating from the year the house was completed, the 420 year old deed that made Holdenby over to the Royal Family, a book that Charles I wrote at Holdenby, a tree that George VI...
SERVE, which supports independent living, is holding the event on Saturday, May 18, from 6.30pm, at Rushden Masonic Hall. Fundraising manager Nick Tite said: "This will be a real fun night - there will races, tombola prizes, an auction supported by local businesses, and of course a fish and chip, (or vegetarian), as well as bar! "We'd love you to come along to take part, of sponsor a race, jockey or owner!" If you would like to know more, contact Nick at [email protected], contact 01933...
Magistrates banned a racist thug and serial shoplifter from EVERY Co-op store in the county and a local shopping square in Northampton for causing “nothing but misery” to those working and shopping there. But Jordan McKenzie, aged 31, will still be allowed to visit his local pub on the edge of his exclusion zone in Fieldmill Square, Bellinge. According to Northamptonshire Police, McKenzie went to the Co-op in Fieldmill Square in August 2023, to buy cigarettes but did not have enough cash. When...
The Big Lunch is an annual celebration of neighbours and communities, with millions of people coming together across the country for a few hours of friendship, food and fun. The award forms part of Eden Project’s campaign to bring people and communities together for the greenest Big Lunch yet on 1-2 June. Ahead of The Big Lunch weekend, this unique award invites people UK-wide to apply for a specially designed Sharing Table made by the people at City & Guilds, plus funds towards their community...
More than 60 county singers – members of Northants Sing Out – have wowed the panel of celebrity judges on the UK’s biggest search for a star Britain’s Got Talent. The choir was given a standing ovation by the crowd and four ‘yes’ votes by Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon and Bruno Tonioli, who described them as ‘sensational’. Choir director Gareth Fuller conducted the singers to deliver a ‘sublime’ rendition of gospel song It Is Well with My Soul before switching to the 90’s club...
On this day in 1974; Barbara and Bill took their vows in the presence of many family and friends at Kettering registry office becoming ‘Mr & Mrs Chester’. Learning of the couples ‘Golden’ wedding anniversary the home staff at Claremont Parkway decided to arrange a romantic meal for two in the home’s Garden lounge where they could mark the auspicious occasion together with a fine dining experience. Bill helped design the menu based on Barbara’s favourite foods and chose the background music with...
The black, green and gold will face Leinster in front of a capacity crowd of 82,300 in Dublin as the teams battle it out for a place in the Investec Champions Cup final. Saints had lost 10 successive Champions Cup matches going into this season, but they have now won six games in a row in the competition. They beat Glasgow Warriors, Toulon, Bayonne and Munster in the pool stages before beating Munster and Vodacom Bulls in the knockout rounds. And now they face a club with an incredible history...
Kettering and Northampton general hospitals have celebrated the long service of colleagues who have worked for the NHS for a combined total of 5,570 years. Events at Kettering General Hospital and Northampton General Hospital, celebrated colleagues marking 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 and 50 years of continuous service in the NHS. Together the hospitals had 192 colleagues with long service including 19 with more than 40 years of service, 64 with more than 30 years and 109 with more than 25 years. Richard...
Over the last year the club has noticed a good increase in public interest in sailing, with several families joining and the Youth Group doing very well. From 11am to 4pm everybody is welcome at the Open Day and there are several ways of getting people on the water. Free ‘taster sessions’ in sailing dinghies and keelboats will be available for adults and juniors, with buoyancy aids provided (weather and visitors’ physical fitness permitting). Round trips in a motor boat are also on offer for a...
A Kettering General Hospital sonographer has helped improve end-of-life care arrangements at the hospital after she lost her mother. The hospital’s Lead Sonographer in the Radiology Department, Dr Kalpana Lakhani, lost her mother, Mrs Pushpaben P Lakhani who died aged 91 on Mother’s Day 2021. Her mother was taken to the mortuary in one of our older-style trolleys and Kalpana thought the improvements could be made to how that was done. She said: “The last journey from the ward to the Chapel of...
Arrests have been made after a carriage at Rushden railway station was set alight on April 17, causing it to be damaged ‘beyond salvage’. Initial investigations suggested the fire was arson and now four teenagers have been arrested. A Northamptonshire Police spokesperson said: “Four teenage boys from Irthlingborough have been arrested on suspicion of arson and all released on police bail pending further enquiries. "One is aged 15 and the other three are 14-years-old.” The fire rendered one...