JILL HOPE is calling for improvements to safety at a road junction in Hunsbury, after yet another accident early on last Monday morning,  23 September. The accident occurred at the junction of Rowtree Road and Towcester Road at about…..

DO YOU RUN A BUSINESS IN NORTHAMPTON? Do you ever have to phone Trading Standards to ask their advice? Well if you do in future, expect a hefty bill. The Conservative-led County Council has decided to charge business customers £58 an hour for advice. The Liberal Democrats askes them to reconsider. So did the Federation […]

I’M TALKING ABOUT the St James floods in April 1998. Today a walkabout with St James Residents’ Association (SJRA) identified 24 blocked drains. Several with trees growing in them! I have reported it to the county council and will be demanding quick action. STOP PRESS Sunday, 11 August: I inspected the area in the morning […]

PEOPLE IN ST JAMES have commented that they are outraged by the fact that Conservative and Labour county councillors have just voted themselves a pay rise of over…..

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Tory leaders are protecting the Northamptonshire Police and Crime Commissioner, say Liberal Democrats following their party’s removal from the county’s influential Police and Crime Panel. In the first new county council meeting, nominations to the panel saw an amendment proposed that would see an extra Labour councillor take a place on the committee at the […]

At the county council election on 2 May 2013, Jill Hope was elected as Liberal Democrat Councillor for the Sixfields Division. The votes cast were as follows: Jill Hope……………….865 Conservative…………813 Labour……………….637

PART of St James was been moved into Sixfields division for the county council elections in May 2013. WHEN you vote at elections, you’ll vote at your normal polling station, but instead of voting for a councillor in the old St James division, you’ll be voting for a councillor in Sixfields division.

Do you think that the Conservative County Councils cuts to PCSOs and streetlights will make Northamptonshire less safe? You can vote on these issues here.

LOCAL residents turned their backs on the local Tories in two recent council by-elections. Towcester’s previous county councillor moved 200 miles away to Cornwall, but she remained on the council, claiming £7,000 a year in allowances. Then the Tories had the nerve to waste £3,000 of taxpayers’ money on an oil painting to commemorate her […]