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The new road being built to replace part of Sandy Lane near Harpole could soon be open, using a temporary link while further work takes place.

West Northamptonshire’s fleet of highways machinery is preparing to roll out the summer road maintenance programme, focusing on major projects that require warm and dry weather conditions.

Legacy programme Impact ’25 has been launched in Northampton

People across West Northamptonshire are being invited to have their say on the draft Local Plan strategy

West Northamptonshire Council (WNC) lead in managing local flood risks, this includes risks of flooding from surface water, groundwater and ordinary (smaller) watercourses. 

Candidates have been announced today for the Northamptonshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner election due to take place in Northamptonshire next month.

18 entrepreneurs from West Northamptonshire have been awarded business grants of £2,000 from the Business & IP Centre Northamptonshire’s (BIPC) Build Your Business initiative.

A Jewish campaign group has cancelled today's Walk Together demonstration amid safety concerns, as the Met Police says the risk of disorder from a pro-Palestinian march is not high enough to seek a ban.

The King is to return to public-facing royal duties, with his medical team "very encouraged" by the progress made in his cancer treatment.

The daughter of a British man who died in Cambodia says she has been left with unanswered questions - and claims the Foreign Office isn't "doing enough" to address them.

A British tourist is in intensive care after being attacked by a shark in Trinidad and Tobago.

ITV News presenter Rageh Omaar is "receiving medical care" after becoming "unwell" live on-air, the TV channel says.

The police handling of the case of an American driver who fled the UK after a crash that left a nurse unable to walk was "not acceptable".

A gold pocket watch that was recovered from the body of the richest man on the Titanic will be auctioned on Saturday. 

Military horses that were were injured after they bolted through central London earlier this week will be "closely observed" - as the army says some of the animals will return to duty "in due course".

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Northamptonshire Police is appealing for information regarding the location of 20-year-old Connor Gallacher.

Northamptonshire Police is appealing for information regarding the location of 24-year-old Branden Lee Kearney.

Northamptonshire Police is appealing for information regarding the location of 41-year-old Shaheed Saeed.

After spending 48 hours immersed in the world of Arne Slot, it is easy to convince oneself that Liverpool have identified football’s next super coach. A man operating at the tactical vanguard, an expert in man management, and a master of the media.

Pep Guardiola has warned Manchester City and Arsenal could slip up similarly to Liverpool – and reckons the Premier League title race is still wide open.

Following Adrian Newey's decision to leave Red Bull, Sky Sports F1 analyse the wider impact the legendary designer's impending departure could have on the team.

Thomas Frank is in a jovial mood as he leaves his press conference and walks through to a back room at Brentford's Jersey Road training ground for his sit-down with Sky Sports.

ITV News presenter Rageh Omaar is "receiving medical care" after becoming "unwell" live on-air, the TV channel says.

A new update has been released for the nine-year-old video game Fallout 4, the first of its kind for the hit title since 2017.

Peter Kay says he has been forced to postpone two shows at a new arena in Manchester again - this time for almost a month.

Jack Whitehall says he's been the victim of "outrageous shading" after the Prince of Wales described his jokes as "dad-like".

A new update has been released for the nine-year-old video game Fallout 4, the first of its kind for the hit title since 2017.

A high school athletics director has been accused of using AI to create a fake recording of the principal going on a racist and antisemitic rant.

The world's first personalised mRNA cancer jab for melanoma is being tested in British patients.

There's a trade war brewing between China and the West, at stake is who will dominate the global market for electric vehicles.

The extraordinary, unprecedented and largely unexplained flows of millions of pounds of British luxury cars into states neighbouring Russia continued in February, according to new official data.

The owner of Superdry's flagship store in central London is weighing a challenge to a rescue plan that would impose steep haircuts on the struggling chain's landlords.

NatWest Group has become the latest UK banking giant to report a sharp drop in earnings for the first three months of the year.

There's a trade war brewing between China and the West, at stake is who will dominate the global market for electric vehicles.

Embattled Humza Yousaf has told Sky News he will not resign as Scotland's first minister.

Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf is battling to save his job as he faces a knife-edge no-confidence vote.

Call it the Rishi Sunak reset week or, to borrow from The Spectator's Katy Balls, the shore-up Sunak week - the prime minister will be going into this weekend feeling the past few days have been a job well done. 

Voters in Grimsby - one of Sky News's election Target Towns - have been offering their views on politics, politicians and "broken promises".

In the nation of 'Cead Mile Failte' (a hundred thousand welcomes), the residents of Coolock want to shut the door.

The family of a missing high school student who may have been the first victim of a suspected serial killer in Mexico City have protested at the site where bones were found last week.

Israel's security minister, controversial far-right politician Itamar Ben-Gvir, has been taken to hospital with minor injuries after a car accident, police have said.

A wave of demonstrations have swept the Canary Islands as locals protested against a tourism model they say has plundered the environment, priced them out of housing and forced them into precarious work.

The windmill blades of the Moulin Rouge, the most famous cabaret club in Paris, have fallen off.

A dog has been rescued after getting trapped under a kitchen at a home in Swansea.

Milan is proposing a new law to ban ice cream after midnight in an effort to protect the "tranquillity" of residents.

A dog who went missing in Australia for more than a fortnight has been reunited with his owners in the UK.

A Jewish campaign group has cancelled today's Walk Together demonstration amid safety concerns, as the Met Police says the risk of disorder from a pro-Palestinian march is not high enough to seek a ban.

The daughter of a British man who died in Cambodia says she has been left with unanswered questions - and claims the Foreign Office isn't "doing enough" to address them.

The family of a missing high school student who may have been the first victim of a suspected serial killer in Mexico City have protested at the site where bones were found last week.

A British tourist is in intensive care after being attacked by a shark in Trinidad and Tobago.

A dog who went missing in Australia for more than a fortnight has been reunited with his owners in the UK.

In the nation of 'Cead Mile Failte' (a hundred thousand welcomes), the residents of Coolock want to shut the door.

The migrant dinghy in which five people died was chaotic, overloaded and packed with people carrying weapons and fighting, according to one of the passengers who was on board, speaking exclusively to Sky News.

The King is to return to public-facing royal duties, with his medical team "very encouraged" by the progress made in his cancer treatment.

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