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Brexit food shortages are not inevitable – keep calm and don’t panic buy

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Ischgl - a resort for all reasons

Travel review: Ischgl - a resort for all reasons

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The best wedding venues in Northants

Here are 28 of the best weddings venues to tie the knot in Northamptonshire

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Win tickets to the 2019 Caravan, Camping & Motorhome Show

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Crossing borders with your dog after Brexit

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Europe prepares to celebrate 75 years of freedom from Nazi occupation

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Don't fall foul of new passport rules for travelling to EU

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How Brexit will affect each ingredient of the full English breakfast

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The Nintendo Switch feels like it was made for Horizon Shift '81. A triumph

Console Corner: Horizon Shift ‘81 Niintendo Switch review

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The Queen visits Churchs shoe factory, St James Northampton on a whistle-stop county visit in 1965

Looking Back : How shoe factories put the sole into Northampton

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Looking Back : How shoe factories put the sole into Northampton

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The fancy dress entries for the Northampton Carnival parade gather on Midsummer Meadow on June 21, 1962.

Looking Back: Do you remember the cooling towers on Northampton's Midsummer Meadow?

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Clearing away the snow from Northampton's Drapery at its junction with Gold Street are four workmen with shovels. The lorry in the middle of the road is steam-powered which must have provided a welcome warming presence during the harsh winter of 1947 which began on January 21st. Several cold snaps brought wide-spread chaos with coal shortages at power stations resulting in domestic electricity supplies restricted to a chilly nineteen hours a day. Crops rotted in fields adding extra hardship on top of rationing, still in place after the Second World War. 'The thaw in Mid-March caused widespread flooding throughout the UK.

Looking Back: Northampton in the snow

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The queue for Adnitt's new year sale snakes down The Drapery, Northampton, on January 1, 1965

Looking Back: New year in Northampton

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Inside the glorious All Saints Church in Northampton town centre, St Nicholas poses with Father Christmas before the Feast of St Nick carol concert in 2010.

Looking Back: Merry Christmas everyone!

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Villagers enjoy two days of fun in the sun raising thousands for charity at Crick Scarecrow Festival

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Who has made the top 10 finalists in the Nursery of the Year 2018 competition?

REVEALED: Top 10 Northampton nurseries as nominated by you

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Why your child may have £1,000 in a bank account that you don’t even know about

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Keep calm and don't panic buy

Brexit food shortages are not inevitable – keep calm and don’t panic buy

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A full English breakfast

How Brexit will affect each ingredient of the full English breakfast

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Five Lads Peri Peri Chicken is set to open in Bridge Street.

Flame-grilled chicken restaurant set to open on site of former Northampton curry house

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Pictured from left are students Alphonse Okamba and Tom Marshall with chef David Lively.

Survey finds Northampton students distrust tap water and blow their budgets on takeaways

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Ischgl - a resort for all reasons

Travel review: Ischgl - a resort for all reasons

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Pet passports won't be valid with a no deal Brexit

Crossing borders with your dog after Brexit

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A tiny corner of the vast American Cemetery in Margraten which originally held the remains of more than 20,000 men

Europe prepares to celebrate 75 years of freedom from Nazi occupation

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All you need to know about passports and Brexit

Don't fall foul of new passport rules for travelling to EU

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Console Corner: Horizon Shift ‘81 Niintendo Switch review

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The Atlas Three headset by Turtle Beach

Console Corner: Upping headset game made me a better player

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The graphics in Battlefield V are some of the best you will see

Console Corner Battlefield V review

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Starlink is best enjoyed on Nintendo Switch

Console Corner: Starlink: Battle for Atlas Nintendo Switch review

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See the top ten finalists in our Northampton Salon of the Year 2018 competition

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Time to vote for your favourite salon in Northampton

The search begins for Northampton's Salon of the Year 2018

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Product warning

Popular hair straighteners recalled due to electric shock fears

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To move or not to move? That is the Brexit question

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Contemporary and bright - could this be your dream home?

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Three-storey comfort in exclusive village development

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Take a look around this magnificent eco-friendly property with its own 33 acre estate

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