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The First News poetry competition for young writers will be judged by Hollywood star Will Poulter

Poetry competition launched for young writers - judged by Will Poulter

How our Northamptonshire MPs voted on assisted dying. Image: Parliament TV

Find our how your Northamptonshire MPs voted on assisted dying

Jordan Letts CEO Northampton Saints Foundation

Charity CEO calls on Government to back sport-based interventions

Mike Reader collecting new casework at one of his supermarket surgeries

The Diary of an MP: What recess really looks like for an MP

The Red Lion

Lobbying licensee campaigning against crisis facing the hospitality sector

Ladies First Awards, House of Commons

Ladies First return to House of Commons to launch 2025 Awards and celebrate last...

Northampton South MP Mike Reader highlights the £4 injected into the economy for every £1 spent running the University.

Government congratulates University of Northampton on its economic impact

If passed the bill means that terminally ill adults in England and Wales who have six months to live will legally have the choice to end their life.

Assisted dying bill UK: What is the proposed law?

Child plays with building blocks.

Watch: Measures for families announced in Rachel Reeves’ budget

Lights go out in the House of Lords.

Watch: House of Lords lights go out during minister’s speech

A toast to the awards launch

House of Commons launch for sixth Ladies First Awards celebrating inspirational ...

Peter Bone MP/National World

Peter Bone loses seat after 10,505 people sign recall petition

Northampton College students enjoyed a trip to Parliament

Northampton College students enjoy trip to Parliament

The BBC licence fee is set to increase in line with inflation.

BBC licence fee set to increase in 2024 - here's what you need to know

Mass migration is undermining societal cohesion

'Mass migration is causing us harm': Andrew Lewer MP column

Jeremy Hunt will announce the Autumn Statement today. Credit: Getty/Adobe/Mark Hall

Watch the Chancellor's autumn statement speech here
The Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt will give the autumn statement today - watch it live
Tom Morton

The recall petition will open on November 8 as Peter Bone faces the electorate

Recall petition date set for Wellingborough voters who could oust Peter Bone MP

Peter Bone, MP for Wellingborough

Peter Bone suspended from House of Commons

Housing Secretary Michael Gove wrote to Tory backbenchers to say the ban on “no-fault” section 21 evictions promised as part of the Renters Reform Bill will not be enacted before a series of improvements are made in the legal system. Campaigners say this could delay the ban for years. Credit: Getty/Adobe/Kim Mogg

Ban on no fault evictions delayed indefinitely by Tory government

Peter Bone.

Peter Bone loses Conservative whip over bullying and sexual misconduct

Tory MP Peter Bone. Credit: PA

Tory MP 'should be suspended over bullying and sexual misconduct'

Peter Bone

MP facing Parliament suspension

Keir Mather

Who is Keir Mather? The new Labour MP for Selby and Ainsty

Chris Pincher scandal: Ex-Tory MP faces eight week suspension over groping claims - what did he do?

Chris Pincher scandal: Ex-Tory MP to face eight-week suspension

Clive Myrie. Picture: PA/Ian West.

Clive Myrie pulled from BBC News at Ten after Boris Johnson lying joke

Sir Michael Ellis, the Conservative MP for Northampton North, repeatedly told MPs in 2021 and 2022 that Mr Johnson was a “man of honour” and there was “absolutely no indication” he had misled the Commons over lockdown parties.

Northampton MP urged to apologise for defending Boris over lockdown parties

Majority of MPs approve Privileges Committee Boris Johnson Partygate report

Boris Johnson suffers resounding defeat over ‘Partygate’ report
Boris Johsnon has suffered a resounding defeat as MPs vote to accept ‘Partygate’ report
Will Millar

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson

MPs find Boris Johnson ‘deliberately misled’ Commons multiple times

Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson

Which Tory MPs have resigned triggering a by-election?

Nigel Adams, MP for Selby and Ainsty pictured outside Selby Abbey.

Another Tory MP resigns and triggers a third by-election

Former British prime minister Boris Johnson (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Will Boris Johnson stand as an MP in a different seat?

Green Party’s only MP to stand down at next election

Watch the moment Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle ‘snaps’ at Kemi Badenoch as pair lock horns in House of Commons

Watch the moment House of Commons Speaker ‘snaps’ at major Tory MP

Rishi Sunak is under investigation by the Parliament’s Standard Watchdog after allegedly failing to declare an interest

Sunak under investigation over alleged failure to declare interest

Dame Leadsom said “many” of her constituents had been affected by “ongoing disruption to supply” from Anglian Water and other problems.

200 unhappy residents submit petition complaining about Anglian Water

Margaret Ferrier MP was given a 270-hour community payback order for breaking lockdown rules by travelling on a train despite testing positive for Covid

Disgraced MP Margaret Ferrier facing 30 day suspension

Changes to the state pension age are common

Date of UK state pension age rise will not be brought forward

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris speaking to the media at Hillsborough Castle after his meetings with Stormont leaders over Brexit and the Windsor Framework.

MI5 raises terror threat level in Northern Ireland to ‘severe’

TikTok is the world's most popular app

TikTok to be blocked from ‘all parliamentary devices’

Bag used by House of Commons Speaker Betty Boothroyd to go on auction

The scheme will apply to eligible households, where all adults are working at least 16 hours a week. Photo: Childbase Partnership.

Northampton reacts to 30 hours of free childcare for children over nine months

Smoking is now at least 15% more expensive following Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget 2023 - Credit: Adobe

Bad news for smokers: Cigarettes now cost more than ever

Martin Lewis reacts to Jeremy Hunt’s budget after Chancellor name checks him and ‘calls speaker old’

Budget 2023: Martin Lewis gives his verdict

Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt poses with the red Budget Box as he leaves 11 Downing Street in central London on March 15, 2023, to present the government’s annual budget to Parliament. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Budget 2023: Living standards to fall by 6% - OBR

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt addressed the House of Commons with his Spring Budget 2023 on Wednesday - Credit: Getty Images

Key announcements from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget 2023

The Energy Price Guarantee (EPG) will remain at £2,500 for an additional three months.

Budget 2023: Energy Price Guarantee to be extended to June

'The new deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, Lee Anderson is wrong to believe that charities supporting asylum seekers in Calais are involved in a multimillion-pound industry'. PIC: UK Parliament/PA Wire

Lee Anderson: ‘myth’ those on Universal credit are in poverty

Former Speaker of the House, Betty Boothroyd. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)

Iconic former speaker of House of Commons Betty Boothroyd dies aged 93

Therese Coffey says ‘cherish turnips’ amid UK tomato and veg shortage

The PCS Union (Credit: Getty Images)

PCS union announce 100,000 members will strike on Budget Day

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London.

PMQs: How to watch Rishi Sunak face-off against Keir Starmer

Parents Nicole and Chris Taylor have been campaigning for driver safety since their daughter Beccy, pictured, died in a road incident aged 18 in 2008.

‘Powerful’ debate on driver safety left parents, who lost daughter, pleased

Ex-Tory MP Neil Parish resigned after being caught watching pornography in the House of Commons twice.

Disgraced porn-watching ex-MP may stand again at next general election

Dame Andrea Leadsom, the Conservative MP for South Northamptonshire, has secured the Parliamentary debate on the topic.

‘Immense opportunity’ for driver safety to be discussed in House of Commons

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has urged health leaders at an emergency meeting to take "bold and radical" action to alleviate the winter crisis in the NHS. Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

How to watch Prime Minister’s Questions live

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