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

Where interviews are concerned, Daniel Craig has a reputation for being rather serious, a little sullen even, but not today.

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“GLUM”, “poorly lit” and “outdated” were just some of the words the Chronicle & Echo’s crime reporter used to describe the cells in Northamptonshire Police’s Campbell Square custody suite, when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

MOST recently known for his role as the menacing Qadim Shah in BBC’s EastEnders, actor Ramon Tikaram will be taking on a very different challenge in Northampton next month when he stars in the much-loved musical The King and I.

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.

TIME was that a question asked from the Highway Code during a driving test would have been seen as enough to assess a driver’s thorough knowledge of the signs and symbols of Britain’s road system.

THE last home match at the Franklins Gardens saw about 1,350 carers turn up to cheer the Saints on.

A FEW years ago the word “astronomer” may have conjured up an image of a geeky hobbyist shut-up in his attic alone with a telescope.

THE last few weeks have seen a string of well-known High Street names join the list of shop closures in Northampton town centre.

SAY the word addiction and one’s mind naturally turns to drugs like heroin, cannabis or alcohol.

A TEENAGER saved her dog’s life after the pet got a golf ball stuck in its throat.

WITH so many roadworks taking place in Northamptonshire in recent months, it is probably fair to say that many motorists will have mentally shaken their fists at those high-vis-jacketed workers digging away at the head of enormous traffic jams.

WHEN Kelly Snedker from Duston ran a Race for Life last year her mum Wendy was waiting for her at the finish line.

A FRAIL, elderly man was living alone in a rat-infested house in Northamptonshire before Christmas. He was unable to cope and too afraid to ask the authorities for any help in case it would cost him so much he would lose all he had.