Alan Dee’s guide to the new films: Marvel Avengers Assemble
WELCOME to summer – the first of the big blockbusters has arrived, which means that just about everything else has moved to one side to allow Marvel Avengers Assemble a clear run at the box office.The...
View ArticleLottery fund helping to buck the rural decline
AS VOLUNTEERS who run the Twyford village shop prepare to move into a new, purpose built store, Big Lottery bosses are urging rural communities to reach out for financial help. This month the Big...
View ArticleFamily man’s attempt to save Brackley playhouse
A POTENTIAL buyer who wants to save one of Brackley’s most popular family destinations hopes a deal can be struck within the next few weeks. Last weekend the Bumblebees Playhouse, in Oxford Road,...
View ArticleMatt Adcock’s film review: irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy
Can it really be 15 years since the awesome Trainspotting put Scotland and drugs on the big screen in a smart, funny and engaging masterpiece based on the ground-breaking novel by Irvine Welsh?Welsh...
View ArticleA licence to level retail playing field
SO, what’s the only type of outfit that’s still expanding on our High Streets?The fish spa craze appears to have come and gone, the coffee bar boom seems to have slowed down, new nail stylists are...
View ArticleSpot checks by trainee specials
Students training to be Special Constables gave 11 motorists 14 days to make their vehicles road worthy during spot checks in Towcester last week.Last Thursday evening student Special Constables...
View ArticleYoung people in Towcester are ‘doing it for themselves’
A TEAM of young volunteers dressed in flourescent pink to drum up interest in Towcester Vision Youth Cafe’s latest project to create a wall of song lyrics.Project V launched its first artwork during...
View ArticleBank holiday morris display
BICESTER: The Twyford-based Olwswick Morris will celebrate the new season with a performance at Bicester Avenue Garden Centre on May Bank Holiday Monday.Centre manager Adrian Drake said he was pleased...
View ArticleElectric racers to light up Silverstone Circuit
STUDENT teams are gearing up to take on professional engineers in this year’s Greenpower Corporate Challenge at Silverstone Circuit on Sunday.The annual event, organised by The Greenpower Education...
View ArticleGeoff Cox’s guide to new DVDs: The Iron Lady, Mission Impssible
POLITICAL biopic THE IRON LADY (12: Twentieth Century Fox) treads a road not covered by BBC4’s The Long Walk To Finchley.The TV drama examined ten years in the young life of future Prime Minister...
View ArticleChance for teenagers to experience famous track
YOUNG people will get their first taste of driving when they get behind the wheel of a Mercedes-Benz at the home of British motorsport next month.Mercedes-Benz is giving 100 young people the chance to...
View ArticleCar owners told to be vigilant after catalytic converter thefts
CAR owners are being told to be vigilant after a series of catalytic converter thefts in south Northants.The first theft from Whittlebury Road, Silverstone, happened between 1.30pm on Wednesday, April...
View ArticleBee friendly – book early
BUCKINGHAM: Children and their families are invited to paint plant pots and fill them with bee-friendly plants for Buckingham’s bees on Saturday, May 5.And after the session, organised by BTCV with...
View ArticleIn training for Three Peaks
BUCKINGHAM: Buckingham Table completed their final warm-up session by walking the Malvern Hills last Saturday in preparation for the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge in aid of Padbury-based charity...
View ArticleThe King’s Speech (review)
I WAS shocked and saddened to hear that The King’s Speech is to close. The closing notices were posted on Friday yet I saw the production at London’s Wyndham’s Theatre two days earlier and, like...
View ArticleBan on lorry drivers using road as toilet
AFTER bottles of human waste were found at the side of a street in Towcester residents are being asked if lorries should be banned from Old Tiffield Road.During one of their regular litter last picks...
View ArticleNew ‘Vendee Drive’ takes the traffic strain
A NEW congestion-busting route from the A41 to the Middleton Stoney road in Bicester opened on Tuesday this week.The new perimeter road through the Kingsmere development has been named Vendee Drive in...
View ArticleBrackley are trounced at Stewarts
RUGBY: Brackley’s league programme came to a close with a 57-0 trouncing at Stewarts & LLoyds.Only the two promoted sides Northampton BBOB and Biggleswade had handed out greater punishment,...
View ArticleOpen garden weekend in Flora’s village
ONCE home to Lark Rise to Candleford author Flora Thompson, the village of Fringford near Bicester will hold an open gardens weekend on Saturday and Sunday, May 19 and 20.At least 10 gardens will offer...
View ArticleChildren say fond farewell to long-serving school governor
THE children of East Claydon School held a farewell assembly on Monday to thank a special governor for his hard work and support for their school. County councillor David Polhill has been a governor of...
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