From Supergrans to creepy clowns: Seven times Northampton was the centre of national attention
By Alastair Ulke
Published 6th Sep 2019, 12:23 BST
Northampton has had no shortage of hard-hitting national news over the years...
In this special segment we take a look at the times the world stood still and watched what was going on right here in Northampton...
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The internet turned its gaze on Northampton in 2013 after pictures circulated of a sinister-looking clown wandering the streets... the Hashtag #northamptonclown exploded overnight.
The clown was later revealed as student Alex Powell - who pulled off the stunt as a bit of "harmless fun", and says he never set out to cause trouble.
The football world was shocked in 2015 when the Chronicle and Echo revealed a 10.5m loan from NBC to build a new stand for the Cobblers' stadium had effectively gone missing...
Only this year, former-NTFC directors David and Anthony Cardoza were ordered to repay the missing millions after a judge ruled they misused the loan to build lush homes for themselves...
Northampton Borough Council was scorned by the art world in 2013 when they announced they would sell a 4,000-year-old Egyptian statue to fund museum renovations.
Former NBC leader David Mackintosh was branded "Philistine of the Year" and the council was thrown out of the Museums Association on ethical grounds. It sold at Christie's for 15.6m.
