Opposition

Council leader Mark Arnull (Reform UK) (top), Jonathan Harris (Liberal Democrats) (left), Daniel Lister (Conservatives) (right), and Sally Keeble (Labour) (middle).

Leaders strongly criticise new Reform-led council for having 'no manifesto'

West Northamptonshire Council is offering a £3 million loan to the Grosvenor Centre to bring in H&M and create flexible office spaces.

Opposition expresses discomfort as council approves £3m loan to shopping centre

Calls have been made for councillor Fiona Baker to resign following a damning OFSTED report into SEND children's services at WNC.

Opposition calls for councillor to resign after damning OFSTED report

Many stalls at Commericial Street have been left empty as businesses struggle to make a profit.
Credit: Nadia Lincoln LDRS

Opposition ask WNC if it is 'attempting to kill off' longstanding market traders

Here's how the market is currently looking

Opposition slams 'rude, reckless and disgraceful' plans for new Market Square

Labour councillor Enam Haque (right) is calling for urgent improvements to NGH

'Northampton General Hospital cannot last another 10 years the way it is'

Engineers at work on the first arch for the Greatworth green tunnel in September 2023.

Opposition criticise Tory MP's idea to build an 'international' train station

Opposition to the proposed demolition of Overstone Hall is flooding in.

Opposition floods in against Overstone Hall demolition

RAF Scampton could be transformed into housing for asylum seekers - but locals aren’t happy

Row as historic RAF base could be used to house 1,500 asylum seekers

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

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The Voi trials have been extened to 2024. Cllr Emma Roberts (inset).

Voi e-scooter trials extended to 2024 despite 'lots of unanswered questions'

West Northants Council has been criticised for its handling of transport to school provision

Opposition says council's transport to school provision is in 'complete chaos'

West Northamptonshire Council says it will be supporting around 17,500 households with vouchers and extra cash to help with grocery shopping and energy bills this winter

Concerns over West Northants Council's rollout of the Household Support Fund

Kwasi Kwarteng has cut his trip to the International Monetary Fund in Washington, USA short.

Will Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng announce a budget U-turn today?

Labour group leader Wendy Randall labelled Kwasi Kwarteng's mini-budget a "massive giveaway for the richest" as thousands in West Northants struggle to heat and eat

Labour councillor says county MP ‘living in cloud cuckoo land’ over mini-budget

The HiMO action group protested outside the Guildhall before a council meeting last week

'SHOCKING': Opposition calls on council to 'act swiftly' after FIFTY illegal HiM...
"It is shocking that recent days of action have uncovered dangerous living conditions, illegal HiMOS and criminal activity. We pay our taxes, and we all deserve to feel safe where we live.”
Logan MacLeod

Labour councillor Emma Roberts says she hopes Veolia can avoid a strike among Northampton's bin collectors

Labour tells Veolia to live up to promises as bin collectors strike looms

In its current form, a single warehouse would dwarf Towcester's town hall

Save Towcester Now gets 800 signatures to fight 'massive' warehouse development

‘If your telescope is really good, perhaps you’ll even make out the swirling clouds of Jupiter’s upper atmosphere’ (Photo: JPL/NASA/Getty Images

Jupiter will be in 'opposition' this week and will appear bright in the sky - he...

Councillor Danielle Stone

'We feel vindicated by missing millions report': Opposition borough councillors ...

Sywell CEVA (Church of England Voluntary Aided) Primary School in Overstone Road, Sywell. Photo: Google

Northamptonshire school teachers set to strike for two days over controversial a...

Labour leader Keir Starmer will address the nation tonight - here’s how to watch

The East Stand at Sixfields is yet to be fully completed.

Opposition calls for Sixfields deal to be ‘open to scrutiny’ – but council denie...

(Photo: Carl Court/Getty Images)

MPs have voted against maintaining food hygiene and animal welfare standards in ...

Borough councillors are not impressed with the government's decision to appoint the interim leader of the new shadow unitary authority

Northampton councillors slam ‘undemocratic’ decision for government to appoint n...

Northamptonshire County Council's last ever budget was agreed at County Hall last week

Opposition councillors condemn Conservatives' financial record after final North...

The makeup of the new Kingsthorpe Community Council is set to be voted on during a full Northampton Borough Council meeting at the Guildhall on Monday

Fury over Kingsthorpe parish proposals being 'railroaded' onto residents
Opposition councillors are ‘beyond angry’ at plans to ‘railroad’ two wards into a new community council for Kingsthorpe.
James Averill

Roundup weedkillers are one of the most popular brands known to use glyphosate. Photo: Getty Images

Call for Northampton Borough Council to stop using weedkiller with cancer links

Jupiter and its moons will be visible without a telescope (Photo: Shutterstock)

This is how to see Jupiter and its moons without a telescope tonight

Generally brightly coloured and featuring cartoons, should confectionery packaging be redesigned to lessen its appeal? (Photo: Shutterstock)

Should sweets and soft drinks be sold in plain packaging to protect kids? Have y...

Among the proposals being put by Northampton Forward as part of a Government funding bid is a plan for a large park at Greyfriars. But Labour says the process by which the plans are being drawn up is not democratic.

'Quango' should not be allowed to put forward Northampton masterplan without cou...

Figures revealed this morning showed that the county council paid 19 employees more than 100k in 2017/18, a year in which it faced a massive financial crisis

'Fat cat' salaries for senior Northamptonshire County Council staff sends out 'w...

The county council's cabinet meets monthly at One Angel Square

'It's the end of democracy' - opposition councillors hit out at new cabinet meet...

Cllr Matt Golby, leader of Northamptonshire County Council

Calls for Northants County Council leader to resign

Proposed plans. Credit: The Environment Partnership

Opposition against plans to build 132 homes on former Northampton middle school

"The whole situation around and in the bus station is not good."

Bring in the health inspectors on Northampton bus station before an accident hap...

County council leader Councillor Heather Smith at the opening of the One Angel Square building - which the authority now hopes to sell.

Northamptonshire County Council's Â£40.9m hope for selling off capital among rea...

Some 27million of cuts are expected to be announced at a cabinet meeting next week.

Opposition brands county council decision to fund two new cabinet members at tim...

ELECTION 2017: Why charities should be allowed to campaign freely at election ti...

Northamptonshire County Council wil be conducting a review of the way adult social services are delivered, meaning "technically" all 300 or so jobs are at risk. NNL-140730-154759001

Some 300 adult social care jobs at Northamptonshire County Council 'technically'...

Northampton Borough Council loaned the Cobblers Â£10.25m through 2013 and 2014 for a stadium revamp. However the East Stand project failed. Inquiries were launched as to how that happened in January. ENGNNL00120110804153742

Council acted like a bank '˜giving away money willy-nilly' says councillor of Â£...

Northampton Borough Council's cabinet has approved plans to use Â£500,000 from its reserves to recover the money loaned to the Cobblers.

Opposition to try and halt plans to use extra Â£500,000 in recovering Â£10.25m N...

If approved, one of the new buildings would be used to manufacture photovoltaic panels and frames

Opposition to plans to build on land near renewable energy park in Northamptonsh...

Northamptonshire's Labour group has had a motion to review street lighting arrangements across the county defeated.

Bid for street light review in Northamptonshire refused amid claims a man was ki...