Northampton Chronicle & Echo News Update 3 July, 2024

The latest headlines from the Northampton Chronicle & Echo

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00:00This is your morning update for Wednesday the 3rd of July 2024, brought to you by the

00:07Northampton Chronicle and Echo.

00:12Allow plenty of time.

00:14Travel advice for 480,000 F1 fans heading to Silverstone this weekend.

00:20National Highways is advising people attending the British Grand Prix to allow plenty of

00:25time for their journeys.

00:29Dedicated student basketball players transform Northampton Park wall with impressive mural.

00:36Students from Northampton International Academy, ANIA, who are also members of the NN Street

00:41Ballers Basketball Initiative, have enhanced an area of the racecourse.

00:48Northampton charity Battling Food Poverty honoured to receive prestigious King's Award.

00:55The McCarthy Dixon Foundation, based at the Swan and Helmet pub in Grove Road, received

01:00the award from His Majesty's Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire, James Saunders Watson,

01:07in recognition of the support it gives to people in need across the county.

01:13Greenlight to convert home in Northampton into six-person HMO, despite 34 objections.

01:21The two-storey home in Bush Hill, Weston Favell, will be increased from a four-bed

01:26family home into a five-bed shared house.

01:31We are here for you, long-standing Down Syndrome group encourages families to reach out.

01:37The charity is run by parents, for families, expecting parents and people living with Down

01:43Syndrome, and has made a positive difference across the county for the past 25 years.

01:51Daventry Country Park Memorial Bench Fire leaves local family devastated.

01:57The wooden bench was installed in Daventry Country Park, in memory of William MacDonald's

02:02wife.

02:05Familiar foes lie in wait, as saints discover their Investec Champions Cup fate.

02:12Phil Dowson's men will take on two of the teams they beat in the knockout stages of

02:16the previous campaign's competition, as they have been placed in Pool 3, alongside Munster

02:22and Vodacom Bulls.

02:26In pictures, 11 very cute babies born in Northampton in June 2024.

02:33To celebrate the town's new arrivals, Chronicle & Echo asked parents to submit a picture of

02:38their newborn, with their name and middle name, place and time of birth and birth weight.

02:46For more news go to northamptonchron.co.uk, and for more videos check out shotstv.com.