Northampton Chronicle & Echo Morning Update 24 July, 2025

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00:00This is your morning update for Thursday 24 July 2025, brought to you by the Northampton Chronicle and Echo.

00:11Major 100 million plans unveiled to continue transformation of popular holiday park in Northampton.

00:20A huge redevelopment of the billing Aquadrome Holiday Park has been proposed,

00:24aiming to completely transform the 295-acre site with more than £100 million of fresh investment.

00:35It's disgusting. Mum's anger as Northampton paedophile to be released from prison just over two years into sentence.

00:43Edwin Darby, formerly of Bury Lane, Wooten, was sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court to four and a half years in May 2023,

00:51after he pleaded guilty to two counts of assault of a girl under 13 by touching.

01:00Rogue Northamptonshire car dealer sentenced after selling vehicles with higher mileage and forged MOTs.

01:07A rogue car dealer from Northamptonshire has been sentenced in court after using false names to sell vehicles,

01:14which had a higher mileage than advertised and had forged MOT certificates.

01:21Three-year-old Teddy Scott from Spratton has been announced as the Wicksteed Park competition winner

01:27after wowing judges with his determination and ingenuity for his crazy golf technique,

01:33winning free games for life at the park's course.

01:37A spokesman for Wicksteed Park said,

01:39Northampton MP Mike Reader backs government's plans for water reform.

02:01Published on Monday, July 21st, the report calls for OFWAT, the statutory water regulator, to be scrapped.

02:11Man, 28, arrested after leading police on five-minute pursuit through Northampton.

02:17Shortly before 10am on Wednesday, July 23rd,

02:21Northamptonshire police received several calls reporting that a blue Ford Mondeo

02:26was being driven in a dangerous manner on the eastbound carriageway of the A43 Lumber Tubes Way.

02:34For more news, go to northamptoncron.co.uk.