Thursday: HOW DARE KATE CRONIN PUT THIS BEHIND A PAYWALL? Friday: HOW DARE KATE CRONIN NOT PUT THIS BEHIND A PAYWALL? Dog’s abuse on a daily basis for just above minimum wage & attending court on my days off. No wonder this industry is shedding great reporters faster than we can count.

Here’s Corby MP Lee Barron getting behind Andy Burnham’s bid to return to Westminster ⬇️

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Shabana Mahmood’s postal ballot was investigated in a 2004 vote-rigging scandal in Birmingham The future home secretary submitted two postal ballot documents with very different signatures:

Me after reading the FB comments under my court stories

No matter how many years I sit in court, I’m always so surprised at the level of kindness & empathy judges show to young, vulnerable defendants. They somehow don’t lose focus on their humanity, despite how battle-hardened they must be. www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/...

Absolutely sobbed at this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The victim in this case has been the most wonderful person to work with. Despite the risk of identification she wanted to tell her story She faced a long wait for justice & had to face her attacker in court but she made it. So many women never get there. www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/...

This was an absolutely superb episode. There are people trying to destroy the BBC and they’re not doing it because of bias, they’re doing it because it is big enough and strong enough to call out the lunatics who have taken over political and conversational spheres.

Countdown to Reece’s mea culpa video, straight to camera, hands together, saying he’s grown as a person and found God

Thought this was a great piece to explain to all those journalists on social media concerned about where all the hate and racism on their FB pages is coming from. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Corby’s childhood cancer rates are being examined by public health bosses after renewed pressure from local parents following the screening of Netflix’s Toxic Town www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/environ...

I’ve been following this astonishing £4m burglary case for three years now - it’s finally ended after two trials, with the one man given jail time walking free because he’s already served his sentence www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/...

I agree 100 per cent with Bridgey

Kettering now entering the ‘find out’ phase of roundabout flag painting

I’ve heard the recordings that this family made of their racist Reform councillor neighbour. I’m rarely shocked these days, but I’ve never heard anything like what this family was subjected to.

Local journalism update: this Reach title is trying to cause a run on the banks.

So many fans these days 🙏

When I worked at the Croydon Ad we switched off comments under stories in around 2010, largely because of how toxic they were. 15 years later the Facebook pages of local newspaper are rife with racism and toxicity. Well done to @katiecronin.bsky.social for calling it out in Northamptonshire

Super letter from my dad in The Tablet today

I’ve spoken to close friends of Abdhi Patel, from Northampton, this evening about the loss they are feeling so deeply after she was killed in the Indian air disaster. Abdhi sounds like such a wonderful woman. Condolences to all those who loved her www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/emergen...

The response to this story tonight has been overwhelming. While the news is shattering for friends and family of the Modhas, I’m sure it brings them some comfort to see that they were so, so loved in Wellingborough.

I’ve been looking at how the DOGE-style financial shakedown by Reform-led North Northants Council is shaping up - and it’s a different story to the approach taken elsewhere

I sat down with Reform UK’s Cllr Martin Griffiths for his first interview after he was officially made leader of the council last night. He promised no DOGE-style wide-scale redundancies and said he would be running the council, not Reform UK HQ www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/politic...

A brief guide to how to spot a wrong ‘un in 2025 for young journalists: 1) they suddenly start to undermine the police repeatedly on social media 2) they call into question the integrity of the court system 3) they start spouting off about ‘the MSM’ being corrupt /1

An unexpected find for road policing www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/...

Found these stats interesting (via Mail Online). We have only 240 asylum seekers living in North Northants. 6.5 in every 10,000 people. Our population is 360,000. Yet it became an election issue last week & helped Reform to victory here.

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who followed our live election blog on Friday. We smashed all records. I’m so glad people are still interested in local politics in Northants. There were some really good councillors among those who lost seats and we’ll miss them.

Minimum wage for a 9-5 full time job (40 hours a week) is, as of today, £25,396 a year for anyone over 21. Which is why it's amazing to see journalism jobs requiring a degree, job experience, and driving licence advertised at a "competitive salary" of £22,380. tindlenews.co.uk/careers/jour...

I’m inside the only steeple in Corby - at St John’s Church in the old village. I’m watching the treble bell being lowered for restoration and I’ve found some great graffiti from people that locals might recognise.

I was one of only two reporters allowed in court this morning for the first hearing of this harrowing case. Just a total tragedy for poor Marta and her family www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/people/...

Thrilled to have been involved in this incredible BBC Sounds podcast. You’ll be hearing my own concerns about the toxic waste still buried in Corby. Tim and Sarah have worked so hard on this & George, one of the victims, is a fab narrator. He’s on BBC Breakfast this morning

So, so proud to work in this wonderful town ‘The people of Corby cracked on, faced forward, and tried to put their troubles behind them’ www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/people/...

Here’s today’s NT Corby edition featuring our story about a grieving family being asked to remove memorials to their daughter. Please do buy a paper if you’re out today. Every one sold helps safeguard our Corby version of the paper and my job! #corby

I’ve had flu for two weeks. Current symptom is vertigo, which is not helpful during half term with four boys. I think it’s the illest I’ve ever been in my life. Getting jabbed at the beginning of September next year.

Absolute FA Cup magic at Leyton Orient 🏆 🤩

One for the journalism students. Lots of legal and ethical pitfalls to navigate on this story. We’ve gone as far as we can with it. www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/people/...

Some nice coverage of our Robert Gould case on Hold The Front Page today www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2025/news/pa...

Kettering’s last remaining cinema closed this week. It served an area with a population of 100,000. Unsurprisingly it hasn’t made the national press, unlike the proposed closure of the Prince Charles Cinema in the West End of London which has at least 6 cinemas within a square mile.

"People find this hard to believe, but there is a massive housing surplus in this country. We have a higher ratio of bedrooms to population than ever before." Seen a few articles recently using stats like this to justify opposition to new supply. Thread on why this is wrong and a distraction...

I’ve heard almost every word of the harrowing evidence in this horrifying trial. These men showed heroic bravery. It was really remarkable. The jury took three days to consider the evidence and came back tonight with 29 guilty verdicts. www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/...

Fuck me, people still losing their minds about paying £2 a month for a subscription to the paper. Bet they spend more than that on Candy Crush in a day.

It’s been more than five years since this woman made a rape allegation. Now the case has been dropped after she withdrew support for the prosecution

A teen from Corby has tonight been charged with murder

I’m at Northampton Crown Court for a case where a man is accused of glassing someone. He denies it. The court can’t deal with his case because there’s not a single barrister available to defend him. He’s only been told this at 2.45pm.

For anyone following the Robert Gould Rushden teacher case, our jury has now been out for five hours and six minutes. They’re being brought back into court shortly and will then be sent back down to continue their deliberations.

Me: degree, post grad journalism qualification, two years’ senior training, 22 years of experience, attends court on day off to pick up paedophile case Readers: HOW DARE YOU EXPECT ME TO PAY TO READ THIS?

Macaulay is the first ever Corby councillor to be given a seat on the NNC executive since its inception in 2021. Congratulations to him. Highways is a big old job! www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/politic...

Totally ludicrous queue to get through security into Northampton Crown Court this morning. Goes all the way back to the prison van entrance