As we pass the middle of June, we’ve searched through Northamptonshire’s newspaper archives for some flashing headlines covering this week in past decades.
From heroic schoolboy saving his little brother from drowning to a woman charged with terrorism after sending white power in the post to council officers, Northampton has always been at the forefront of hard-hitting news.
So step into our time machine as we bring you the headlines for the middle of June from our vaults...
5. Northampton Daily Report - June 24, 1904
The Northampton Daily Reporter of June 25, 1904, covered the story of a homeless man named John Smith, who was fined after sleeping rough under a hedge in Houghton Road with his two children, who were said to be "in a sorry plight and shivering with the cold" Photo: British Library
6. Northampton Daily Echo - June 25, 1924
The Northampton Daily Echo of June 25, 1924, covered the story of Dr Alexander Cameron of Adelaide House in Hester Street, Northampton, who was charged with the manslaughter of a farmer named John Rowlatt Corner who died in Northampton Infirmary after a hit-and-run Photo: British Library
7. Northampton Mercury & Herald - June 25, 1944
The Northampton Herald & Mercury of June 25, 1944, covered the story of a man Arthur Percy Driver, 52, who fell and injured his head after an argument broke out in the Abington Park Hotel. Mr Driver and other middle aged men were said to be unhappy at seeing young men about town when their own sons were fighting in the Second World War Photo: British Library
8. Northampton Mercury & Herald - June 25, 1944
The Northampton Mercury & Herald of June 25, 1954, told the extraordinary tale of John Henry Searle, a Northampton man missing for ten years and feared to have been murdered in Communist China, who was freed after making it to British-governed Hong Kong Photo: British Library