Do you know Bernard…

A local business in Towcester is calling out to the people of Northants to ask if they know a very generous customer who visited them last week.
Towcester Tearooms is fundraising for both The Alzheimer’s Society and MacMillan Cancer Support this year, culminating in this summer’s challenge where 8 local men, including the Tearooms owner, Tony [...]

Crime Down

CRIME in Northamptonshire fell by 5.9 per cent during 2008/09, the fifth successive year that crime has come down in the county.
During the last year, between 1 April 2008 and 31 March 2009, offences dropped from 63,567 to 59,904 – 3,753 fewer than in the previous year.
This year there were 15,000 fewer victims of crime [...]

Tiny Tows Succeed at Waitrose in Towcester

Each month, Waitrose Partners choose three causes to benefit from a share of the supermarket’s £1,000 regular donation.
Shoppers at the checkout are each handed a green token which they can place into one of three labelled boxes at the store exit, allowing them to learn about and vote for the cause they would like to [...]

Grafton Scout District is Thriving

Grafton Scout District is Thriving. The numbers of members are increasing rapidly across South Northants.
There are 4 Scout sections that young people can become members of :-
Beaver Scouts – 6 – 8 years old
Cub Scouts – 8 – 10 1/2 years old
Scouts – 10 1/2 – 14 years old
Explorer Scouts 14 – 18 years [...]

Northants Police Good at Turning Up for Work

OFFICERS and staff at Northamptonshire Police have posted some of the best attendance figures in the country.
The latest annual statistics show that the Force had the fifth highest attendance figures for officers and sixth highest for staff members across the whole of the UK.
And Northamptonshire Police finished top of the pile among its Most Similar [...]

First day of Spring

Today Friday 20th March is officially the first day of spring – somehow it seems to have been a long and cold winter.

Time Capsule in Towcester Rural Village

A new garden room is being built at Pear Tree Cottage in Alderton and our builder Malcolm Southern suggested putting a time capsule in the walls.  So it doesn’t get lost, details of the location and contents are going to be held with the house deeds with the instruction that it should be opened in [...]

Towcester Museum Gets Waitrose Boost

PLANS for the Towcester Museum have moved a step forward after supporters received a donation from Waitrose’s Community Matters scheme.
The Friends of Towcester Museum was awarded £361 by the supermarket’s Towcester branch after taking part in the charity scheme last month and now members are hoping to use the money to buy display [...]

Weekly Newsletter Full Round Up Of News In Towcester and Villages

This week’s newslettter for full round up in Towcester http://bit.ly/dBPUw

Twitter comes to Towcester

The social networking event of the moment – its all the rage and and it here in Towcester.
The Editor runs fees to Twitter as TowcesterNews, Ethos Recruitment are not only podcasting but regularly provide useful updates on their Tweats.
Drop Dead Gorgeous are there too, and this morning Towcester Tiles joined the fray.
Twitter provides a platform to tell your friends and the [...]