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The mum claims that North Northamptonshire Council has not been in contact about a school placement for several months and has failed to secure an option for her child.placeholder image

Mum forced to quit job as child has no school place after nearly a year

Reform UK councillors stood outside the Northampton Guildhall. (Image: Nadia Lincoln LDRS)placeholder image

Reform's audit team set to visit council and use AI to find 'any waste'

Sally Keeble (left), Dan Lister (top right) and Jonathan Harris have taken up leadership positions on West Northamptonshire Council after the local elections last week. Credit: WNC / Nadia Lincoln LDRSplaceholder image

New opposition leaders speak out after Reform takes charge

Nether Heyford has the highest council tax bill this year compared to the rest of West Northamptonshire.placeholder image

Village with highest council tax bill in West Northants REVEALED

North Northamptonshire Council is predicting a £24 million Dedicated Schools Grant deficit, whilst West Northants expects its shortfall to reach £13.8m by the end of the financial year. Credit Nadia Lincoln LDRSplaceholder image

Both Northants councils predicting black hole in schools budget of almost £40m

Serife Mehmet, 30, said she has often wished to move away from the area due to the extent of the rubbishplaceholder image

Revolting rubbish and nightmare potholes are making my car filthy

Figures have been revealed from Northamptonshire Children's Trust.placeholder image

Child in care sent more than 250 miles away from home as county figures revealed

The huge mountain of rubbish has built up at a property in Dalkeith Streetplaceholder image

Disgusting mountain of rubbish attracting rats and plaguing street

The leaders of North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire Council have responded to calls from the Local Government Association (LGA) to scrap the council tax annual increase cap.placeholder image

'LGA’s calls for unlimited council tax increases no substitute for reform’

Purple shaded area = old constituency boundary and Green outlines = new constituency boundaries.placeholder image

Daventry candidates say they are committed to representing all constituents

16 year old Amiee, right, is one of the students who transport is still to be arranged.placeholder image

More than 130 Northamptonshire children without school transport due to council ...

Many children with special needs are missing school because they do not have the school transport they are entitled to

Sarah Ward

The young children all during the lockdown months between April and July.placeholder image

Seven Northamptonshire children died during lockdown

Northants health bosses are exploring local test and trace systems. (pixaby image).placeholder image

Local test and trace being considered to combat Covid spread in Northamptonshire

Bella had her thirteenth birthday at Arnold House without her family.placeholder image

"When can I see my daughter again?" Council won’t tell mother whose 13-year-old...

Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Stephen Mold.placeholder image

PCC confident police and fire services are both heading in the right direction

The three district councils in the west of the county are all considering the financial impacts of coronavirus.placeholder image

Little given away on how district and borough councils will financially cope wit...

Stephen Mold is the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Northamptonshireplaceholder image

'This is not something they signed up for' - Commissioner praises Northants fire...

Councillor Richard Auger has been leader of Daventry District Council since November.placeholder image

'Lives have to come first' - Daventry district council leader on dealing with co...

Stephen Mold has been the Police and Crime Commissioner for four years now.placeholder image

PCC looks back on four-year tenure on what would have been election day

Northamptonshire County Council is getting a further funding boost from the Government.placeholder image

Northamptonshire County Council gets extra £13 million from government to deal w...

A third of people who have died in Northants care homes since April 10th have had Covid-19 recorded on their death certificate.placeholder image

Deaths in Northamptonshire care homes rise sharply

Councils across the county have been given an extension on their audit deadlinesplaceholder image

Councils across Northamptonshire given extension by government to sign off accou...

James Thomas was recently appointed as the interim CEO of the new children's trust for Northamptonshire, but will be leaving at the end of June before it launchesplaceholder image

Council had ‘full knowledge’ when appointing children’s trust CEO that he had ap...

James Thomas was only recently appointed as the interim CEO of the new children's trust which will launch in Julyplaceholder image

Newly appointed CEO of Northamptonshire children's trust to leave despite only b...

Northamptonshire will have two unitary authority councils - for the North and the West - from next yearplaceholder image

Government to appoint leaders for new shadow councils in Northamptonshire - inst...

The county council is to be scrapped next year and replaced by two unitary authoritiesplaceholder image

Existing councillors set to take up mantle of helping form two new unitary counc...

Northamptonshire County Council is stepping up its plans to tackle the coronavirus outbreakplaceholder image

From food shortages to medical supplies - how coronavirus is being tackled by No...

The postponement means Northamptonshire will have gone six years without elections for the majority of local councillorsplaceholder image

Northamptonshire elections postponed for one year due to coronavirus outbreak

The government has announced that the local elections scheduled for May have been postponed for one year due to the coronavirus outbreak.

James Averill and Sarah Ward, Local Democracy Reporters

Green Party co-leader Jonathan Bartley visited Northampton this afternoon. Picture by Niklas Halle'n/AFP via Getty Imagesplaceholder image

Green Party leader urges Northamptonshire councils not to delay on tackling clim...

The council's planning committee met this weekplaceholder image

The big planning decisions by Daventry District Council this week

The Northamptonshire Safeguarding Adults Board will not make the report public because it says the data is not its to share.placeholder image

Northamptonshire safeguarding board refuses to make homeless deaths report publi...

The county council will contact the children's commissioner Malcolm Newsam to urge him to appear before themplaceholder image

Northamptonshire councillors back motion to haul ‘absent’ children’s commissione...

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Hope for nearly all under-threat Northants libraries

The county council has a long term PFI contract with Shaw Healthcareplaceholder image

Work ongoing to make healthcare contract more ‘efficient’ for Northamptonshire C...

Northamptonshire County Council is in a long term contract with Shaw Healthcareplaceholder image

Northamptonshire County Council wins £100k settlement after dispute over perform...

Council leader Matthew Golby was responding to calls to resign when he made the remark.placeholder image

Council leader under fire for referring to Serious Case Reviews as 'this sort of...

Northamptonshire County Council will be abolished in 2021 to make way for two new unitary authoritiesplaceholder image

Northamptonshire councillors 'in the dark' over unitary costings want detailed b...

Daventry Distirct Council leader Chris Millar left the room while the debate on whether to commend him took placeplaceholder image

Daventry’s Conservative councillors reject motion to commend their own leader ov...

The financial crisis at Northamptonshire County Council led to the recommendation of replacing it with two new councilsplaceholder image

'No change' in forecast £44million cost to set up Northamptonshire unitary autho...

One Angel Squareplaceholder image

County council to spend £500,000 on more HQ office equipment

Councillor Andy Mercer's cabinet role is being scrappedplaceholder image

Northamptonshire councillor in charge of local government reform told to leave c...

Commissioners Brian Roberts and Tony McArdle wrote to council leaders to express their interest of sitting in on the joint committee meetingsplaceholder image

County council commissioners will sit in on unitary set-up meetings to 'minimise...

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Northamptonshire County Council seeking to recoup millions overpaid in care fees

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