10 March 2010

The county council will receive a petition on Wednesday night demanding that plans to create a toxic waste dump locally are scrapped.

Augean PLC are planning to bury low-level nuclear waste at a site neart to the village of Kings Cliffe between Corby and Peterborough.

The petition has 3,000 signatures, and is part of a presentation at the village's middle school by the campaign group Kings Cliffe Waste Watchers.

Planning officials from Northampton will be there to receive it ahead of a final decision on the issue, that will be taken by county councillors there next week.

Three people were rescued by firefighters from there home early on Sunday.

They had to escape from their flat in reigate walk after arsonists set wheelie bins outside the property alight.

The front door was severely damaged but no-one was hurt.

Police have made extra patrols in the area, and are asking people to make there bins secure if they possibly can.

Police are appealing for details after an aggravated burglary in the village of Harringworth.

A 90-year-old man was held by two robbers at his home last Thursday and cash was stolen, with the victim receiving a wrist injury.

09 March 2010

Art has met geneaology in a project open to the public this week just outside Brigstock.

A Victorian lighthouse keepers´ wife at Land's End, a medal-winning wartime telephonist and the mother of a medieval archer - just some of a host of women reclaimed from obscurity by the "Invisible Threads" project.

It's based at Sudborough Green Cottages in Fermyn Woods. The pieces include printed teatowels and colourful and elaborate textiles.

The exhibition at the cottage remains open at
Fermyn Woods Friday and Saturday ( March 12/13 ) between 12noon and 3pm.

Listen to Carole Miles and Kathy Page from the project below.

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06 March 2010

Two men are being held by police after a house
fire off Shetland Way in Corby overnight.

Five fire crews dealt with the fire at a ground
floor flat on Orkney Walk at around 2am, bringing it under control
and leading people inside to safety.

Police and fire forensic teams are due to continue
investigations today, while the men remain in custody.



Three people were injured by a road traffic
accident in Corby yesterday.

None of the injured were seriously hurt by the accident which happened
at around 1:30 on Oakley Road near to the town centre.

As a result, Police closed the road between there and Geddington Road
until around 3:15, causing some traffic delays around town.


Corby will be one of just ten boroughs across England and Wales
to trial so-called "community contracts".

It's a plan by the Home Office to develop
voluntary agreements between locals, elected
officials and public service providers.

04 March 2010

Police in Corby want to speak to a taxi driver about an assualt two weeks ago.

They say two men and a woman caught a taxi from Kettering to Corby at 1am
on Sunday February the 21st. When the vehicle stopped at Chatsworth Road in Corby
one of the men assaulted the other two passengers before leaving the scene.

Police want to speak to the driver to help them with their investigations.



A breast cancer support group has been launched by a county charity in Corby.

The Mayor of Corby is backing the group being established by the Crazy
Hats charity at the Stephenson Way Community Centre.

04 March 2010

A couple in Corby have won an apartment in town worth a £100,000.

Ellen and Paul Jordan were handed the keys to the flat on Walton Homes'
Radbrooke Rise development off Gainsborough Road on Wednesday.

Theyve been living in Corby for 4 years, they'll say they will look
to sell the apartment in order to give them and their family extra income.

Lakelands Hospice will begin to roll out their Hospice at Home service this week

From money already raised the charity on oakley Vale is aiming to give respite
to carers by providing a service for
seriously ill people.