MP’s praise for award-winning chef putting Northampton on the culinary map

The MP for Northampton South has visited the kitchens of an award-winning town centre curry house to meet the chef named the best in the region. Mike Reader saw at first-hand how Abdul Hye makes his ‘Vegetable Volcano’ dish – a staple on the menu at Saffron in Castilian Street. Abdul was named the winner of the East Midlands Chef of the Year at the Bangladesh Caterers Association awards at a lavish ceremony in London last month. During the visit, Abdul was presented with a letter from the Labour MP, which read: “I am writing to extend my heartfelt congratulations..

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First ever ‘MP Heroes’ Award for Northamptonshire business owner is presented at Westminster

One of the county’s leading female business owners has been awarded a prestigious ‘MP HERoes Award’ – in recognition for her achievements in business and her commitment to Northamptonshire’s charity and non-profit sector. Jessica Pilkington, founder and director of Northamptonshire based PR and marketing company Pilkington Communications, was nominated for the award by Mike Reader, MP for Northampton South and collected her award from Westminster Palace this month. Jessica, who in her new role as an MP HERo, will now attend year-round activities at Parliament and be called upon to champion female entrepreneurship in the UK, said: “This is a huge..
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Rolling down the River Nene

Words and pictures by Laura Malpas Journey through Northamptonshire, crossing over yet another bridge, we hardly give a thought about the river flowing by, unless of course there has been excessive rainfall. Generally, the River Nene quietly gets on with its business of travelling its one hundred and five miles through the East of England to the tidal waters of The Wash. This month I’m learning about the Nene, how it shaped the land, supports wildlife, and the human settlements which have relied upon it over several millennia. The River Nene has existed for around ten thousand years, formed at..
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Meet the meritorious masters of melancholic metal

Katatonia, Stockholm’s ‘architects of existential dread’ launch a busy month for the ‘mender on November 1, and the meritorious masters of melancholic metal (their words, not ours) have had more than 30 years to ripen their sounds, from doom and death metal to soul-gripping post rock. Sky Void of Stars, their latest long-player, is the band’s 12th album, ‘...a dynamic journey through vibrant darkness,’ the band promises, ‘Born out of yearning for what was lost and not found, the very peripheries of the unreachable, but composed and condensed into human form and presented as sounds and words true to the..
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