Rushden Town Band Win

On Saturday 7th March, Rushden Town Band had a big win. They won the Midlands Area Brass Band Championships first Section. Their conductor is Adele Sellers Hudson. She is a talented conductor and music teacher. She also conducts the Oundle School Jazz Orchestra. Rushden Town Band will now compete in the National Championships in September […]

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Zane’s Law Rebuffed

Zane’s Law is a proposed new Law (The Clean Land (Human Rights) Bill) to require public authorities to promote clean air and land. It would also require councils and the Environment Agency to keep registers of contaminated land. The common name for the proposed Law, comes from the name of a seven-year-old boy, Zane Gbangbola,

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Council Mergers

Ever since the early 1970s, the government has been determined to merge many of England’s councils and to cut their number. The motivation for this process is supposedly to increase efficiency, but there is negligible evidence to support this argument. Experience in industry has strongly suggested that as organisations get bigger, they get less efficient,

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Wheatsheaf Pub

The former Wheatsheaf pub sits at a gateway site in Rushden, next door to St. Mary’s Church. The location is one of the few remaining examples of Rushden’s historic “high pavements”. (See the photograph.) The pub has been closed for a number of years. At one point, an illegal cannabis farm was discovered in it.

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NNC’s Asset Sale

North Northants Council (NNC) has voted to sell a number of assets in Rushden, Wellingborough and Kettering. The ones that are in the Nene Herald area are: This piece of land is currently used by Rushden Historical Transport Society for storing vintage vehicles. It is not clear where the vehicles will be relocated to. This

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