STILL giggling infectiously, Charlie Moule crawled out of a large cardboard box where she had been playing hide and seek, before graciously submitting to being measured by her mother.

EVERY day Judy Whitmore prepares meals for around 11 people, tackles summits of washing and the piles of ironing which come with having nine children . . .

‘AN Englishman’s way of speaking absolutely classifies him, The moment he talks he makes some other Englishman despise him.’

So sings Professor Higgins in the musical My Fair Lady and it seems that many people would agree.

EVEN when cleaning graffiti off a dog poo bin, park ranger Debbie Samwell remains cheerful and smiling.

WHEN writing for a newspaper, a million points of consideration shoot through the mind when bashing out a story on a computer keyboard.

“DON’T judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.” This proverb hung in my best friend’s house when I was a child, and at the time I couldn’t quite get my head around the concept of how wearing someone’s shoes could help you understand their life or circumstances.

LIBRARY users across Northamptonshire last year breathed a sigh of relief when plans to close eight of the county’s 36 libraries were called off.

THE “patient” I have been allowed in to see at Northampton General Hospital is a little on the quiet side, I have to admit.

FROM GPs offices to the board room at Northampton General Hospital, they are talking about it and, you can be assured, worrying about it.

WE have reached one of those points in the year again, which kids love and parents can find pretty expensive.

THE WORLD could very well look like a bleak place to today’s school leavers.

LAST week a message appeared in several Chronicle & Echo email inboxes, apparently from Northampton North MP Michael Ellis.

WHEN most genuine brides get married, their walk up the aisle is usually the culmination of months - if not years - of planning, and several days worth of beautification routines.

DURING the Christmas period, millions of viewers plonked themselves down on sofas around the country to tune in to thrilling instalments of the BBC’s Great Expectations.

BY the age of 25, most people will have felt the burden of some sort of responsibility fall on their shoulders, and often they will have felt too young for it.

THERE is something very haunting in the look captured in the eyes of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s men, within the photos of Herbert Ponting.

“GLUM”, “poorly lit” and “outdated” were just some of the words the Chronicle & Echo’s crime reporter used to describe the cells in Northamptonshire Police’s Campbell Square custody suite, when he visited them this week.

TO smack or not to smack? It is a question that has been asked a lot recently.

HER face is covered in bruises and she hasn’t eaten since last night, but Sandra is in a good mood because she has just been given a sleeping bag.

Once a young person has been arrested for a crime you might think that the police’s role in the situation would be finished, but for Pc Steven Howes, who works for Northampton’s youth offending team, it only just begins.