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Northampton will light up to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with a number of Beacon Lighting Ceremonies kicking off the Bank Holiday Weekend.

Members of the Special Constabulary give up their spare time to support Northamptonshire Police fight crime and protect people in the county

Police are appealing for witnesses following an incident Castlefields Park in Wellingborough.

People are being urged to visit Northampton’s Market Square to discover the fantastic range of produce and services it has to offer.

This year’s Northampton Music Festival (NMF) will open with a special performance of two well-known songs with a twist – they will be performed in sign language.

The Northamptonshire Search & Rescue team is super excited to announce we have a new trainee search dog, Search Dog Duke.

A 25-year-old man has been sentenced to one year and six months in prison after being convicted of a burglary which took place in Rushden last year.

Police officers have released an image of a man they believe may have information about a commercial burglary in Wellingborough Road, Northampton.

Boris Johnson has insisted the UK needs to move on from partygate after the Sue Gray report revealed a slew of lockdown-breaching events at Downing Street.

Details of drunkenness, fighting and late night parties at the heart of government have been laid bare in a damning report by Sue Gray - who said "senior leadership" must bear responsibility.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to bow to pressure to impose a windfall tax on energy companies when he sets out the government's latest plan to tackle the cost of living crisis later.

Guidance for rape trial prosecutors could "dramatically reduce protection and rights to privacy" for victims and turn them away from "vital" therapy, campaigners have warned.

A review into the deaths of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson has called for dedicated child protection teams made up of police, healthcare staff and social workers to be set up in every local area.

A former care worker has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 18 years for murdering a one-year-old boy she had hoped to adopt.

A man whose hands were left unusable by a rare disease has been given a new lease of life after what is believed to be the world's first double hand transplant for the condition.

Almost 2,000 arrests have been made and thousands of knives seized under a national operation to tackle knife crime.

Sky Sports will pay tribute to cricket legend Shane Warne throughout England's first Test against New Zealand at Lord's next week.

Emma Raducanu is out of the French Open after a 3-6 6-1 6-1 loss to Aliaksandra Sasnovich in the second round.

Jarrod Bowen and James Justin have been handed their first call-ups to the England squad ahead of next month's Nations League matches.

Mercedes believe they made a "big step" last weekend but admit their expectations are low for the Monaco GP, with Toto Wolff saying F1's famous street circuit is not the team's "happy place".

Kate Moss has said Johnny Depp "never" pushed her down any stairs, contrary to rumours discussed by Amber Heard during the ex-couple's defamation trial in the US.

Ricky Gervais has defended his new Netflix show after a LGBT rights group called his material "dangerous" towards trans people.

Katie Price has pleaded guilty to breaching a restraining order against her ex-husband Kieran Hayler's fiancee Michelle Penticost.

Dame Deborah James has shared her fears over falling asleep each night because she does not know how long she has left to live.

A man whose hands were left unusable by a rare disease has been given a new lease of life after what is believed to be the world's first double hand transplant for the condition.

Forecasters are predicting an exceptionally busy Atlantic cyclone season and fear that conditions are ripe to turbo-charge several devastating hurricanes.

Missing person posters have been redesigned in the hope of increasing their impact.

Patients have been warned to expect delays at four hospitals in Greater Manchester because of IT failures that have left some waiting for 11 hours in A&E.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to bow to pressure to impose a windfall tax on energy companies when he sets out the government's latest plan to tackle the cost of living crisis later.

Volkswagen has reached a £193m settlement with UK drivers involved in a class action lawsuit over the so-called dieselgate scandal in 2015.

Peter Cowgill, arguably the most successful British retailer of the last two decades, sensationally stepped down this evening as executive chairman of JD Sports amid speculation he had been ousted.

The acquisition of the UK's biggest microchip factory, Newport Wafer Fab, by a Chinese-owned technology company is to undergo a national security assessment.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to bow to pressure to impose a windfall tax on energy companies when he sets out the government's latest plan to tackle the cost of living crisis later.

Boris Johnson has insisted the UK needs to move on from partygate after the Sue Gray report revealed a slew of lockdown-breaching events at Downing Street.

Details of drunkenness, fighting and late night parties at the heart of government have been laid bare in a damning report by Sue Gray - who said "senior leadership" must bear responsibility.

Boris Johnson has said he "briefly attended" Downing Street lockdown gatherings but didn't know at the time that they "went on far longer than was necessary".

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will meet armed forces personnel in Bosnia and Herzegovina to re-affirm the UK's commitment to peace and stability in the western Balkans.

Kate Moss has said Johnny Depp "never" pushed her down any stairs, contrary to rumours discussed by Amber Heard during the ex-couple's defamation trial in the US.

New COVID variants that might evade current vaccines are a greater threat to global public health than the monkeypox outbreak, the chief executive of Pfizer has told Sky News.

Seventy-five people are missing after a crowded boat of migrants sank off Tunisia, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).

Noisy jackdaws known for suddenly taking flight in their thousands only do so after calling out to each other louder and louder in a type of bird democracy, according to a study.

A local councillor is resigning because people keep accusing him of being the famed street artist Banksy.

A child actor who starred in the blockbuster 1975 film Jaws has become a police chief on the island where it was filmed.

Parasitic worms have been sucked into the gender bias row after a report claimed the naming of the creatures was sexist.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to bow to pressure to impose a windfall tax on energy companies when he sets out the government's latest plan to tackle the cost of living crisis later.

The father of one of the victims of the Texas school massacre wanted to charge into the building because the police officers were waiting outside and weren't " doing anything like they are supposed to".

In a small town like Uvalde, there is no avoiding the shockwave of what happened on Tuesday morning.

"You crouch down, mummy, and balance on the toilet seat, then be as quiet as a mouse.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to bow to pressure to impose a windfall tax on energy companies when he sets out the government's latest plan to tackle the cost of living crisis later.

Boris Johnson has insisted the UK needs to move on from partygate after the Sue Gray report revealed a slew of lockdown-breaching events at Downing Street.

Kate Moss has said Johnny Depp "never" pushed her down any stairs, contrary to rumours discussed by Amber Heard during the ex-couple's defamation trial in the US.

Forecasters are predicting an exceptionally busy Atlantic cyclone season and fear that conditions are ripe to turbo-charge several devastating hurricanes.