New data laws to cut down pointless paperwork for businesses and reduce annoying cookie pops-up are being introduced by the government today in Parliament.The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill was first introduced last Summer and paused in September 2022 so ministers could engage in a co-design process with business leaders and data experts – ensuring that the new regime built on the UK’s high standards for data protection and privacy, and seeks to ensure data adequacy while moving away from the ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach of European Union’s GDPR.Data is fundamental to fuelling economic growth in all areas of society from...

08 March, 2023

Visitors to the historic house can enjoy live music, shopping, food and drink stalls, family activities and more.This month, Delapré Abbey Preservation Trust will mark 5 years since the Abbey’s doors opened to the public for the first time in its 900 years history. To celebrate, there will be a whole host of activities on Saturday 18th March from 12noon to 9pm.The Abbey’s grounds will become a festival of celebration with festivities taking place inside a decorated teepee. Throughout the event, there will be live music from local bands and artists setting the soundtrack for the day. Take part in...

08 March, 2023

Looking for a new job or to re-energise your career?Working in partnership, The Crown Estate and the Department of Work and Pensions are holding a career and recruitment event at Rushden Lakes on Thursday, 23 March 2023 from 10am – 2pm near the Cineworld entrance.Entry is free and, with speed interviews available on the day, you could go home with a new job.The event aims to help job seekers and those looking for the next step in their career find new opportunities with Rushden Lakes’ retailers, restaurants and leisure operators, and will offer candidates the chance to:meet top retailer,...

07 March, 2023

A lifestyle store in Northampton has invested in state-of-the-art software to improve their customer experience.Bell of Northampton on Kingsthorpe Road has introduced a new retail operating system and advanced inventory planning solution to streamline in house processes.Brightpearl automates the administrative side of the business, creating a higher degree of speed an accuracy in everything from stock transparency across all channels to data input. This, in turn, gives the Bell of Northampton team more time to improve and add products on the website to offer bigger and better things to the customers.Customer service then, is greatly improved for the customer as...

06 March, 2023

Hundreds of families will be flocking to Chester House Estate this Spring to welcome and bottle feed around 50 new lambs.As ewes from a local farm prepare to give birth over the coming weeks, the estate team are now busy preparing for the new arrivals. Ninety bales of straw are on order, dozens of crates of milk formula are on route and the specialist Lamb Barn is being equipped with nine individual pens in preparation for the new-borns.Cllr Helen Howell, North Northamptonshire Council’s Deputy Leader and Executive Member for Sport, Leisure, Culture and Tourism, said: “Thousands of visitors will be...

06 March, 2023

Good Business Charter publishes first annual report on state of responsible business in the UK  Three years ago, on the cusp of the Covid-19 pandemic, a new minimum standard to define ‘good business’ was launched, in partnership with the TUC and CBI, and with founder members which included Capita, Deloitte, Brompton and London City Airport. A Last Supper, hosted by founder Julian Richer, with key trade associations just before lockdown brought such gatherings to an end and sowed the seed for a later streamlined Good Business Charter collaboration with FSB.  The 1,000th member, just two years later, would be another membership organisation, the Institute of Directors,...

06 March, 2023

Northamptonshire based podcaster, food blogger, Farmers Wife and Mother, Milly Fyfe is launching an e-cookery book to help people who enjoy cooking but are time poor, create family friendly meals from scratch, with backing from HRH The Princess Royal.It comes at a time where people are feeling the pinch, purse strings are tight, and people are looking for cost effective ways of preparing meals with batch cooking, slow cooking and low energy cooking.The recipes are pulled together from the successful food blog No Fuss Meals for Busy Parents and the podcast ‘The Countryside Kitchen meets’ where Milly interviews food producers...

03 March, 2023

Northampton Film Festival has been running in Northampton town centre since 2019 but for the first time, it is going ‘on the road’ to bring audiences in Daventry, Corby, Wellingborough and Lings (East Northampton) a programme of short films connected with the festival and their area.The screening will include the first public outing in the county for the multi-award-winning Northampton-made short film The Operator from Screen Northants and Mark’d by Corby filmmaker Danny Gibbons which won Best Drama at Northampton Film Festival 2021. Due to the pandemic Mark’d was only screened online so this will be its first cinema screening...

03 March, 2023

People can discover an abundance of affordable and fresh produce at Northampton market as traders settle into their temporary new home at Commercial Street Car Park.Residents looking for quality products and services at bargain prices during the current cost of living challenges and supermarket shortages are encouraged to visit the site – and the current scheme offering an hour’s free parking for shoppers who spend £5 there is also being extended until the end of April.Stall holders at Northampton’s Market will be trading at Commercial Street Car Park over the next 18 months while the historic Market Square is redeveloped...

01 March, 2023

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has unveiled a new centralised website, targeted at helping the UK’s 5.5 million businesses.The new ‘Help to Grow’ site from DBT is aimed at upskilling both big and small businesses across the country by helping them to:Learn new skills Reach more customers Boost business profitsBusinesses have told us that they need easy to find information from the Government, which is why this centralised page will make it simpler for firms to find, access and use the information and support they need in one central space. This site also brings together the wealth...

01 March, 2023

New draft guidance published by the CMA will help businesses work together with confidence towards achieving environmental goals.In March 2022, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) provided its environmental sustainability advice to the Government. As part of that work, the CMA found that businesses needed more clarity about what is, and what is not, legal when working together towards sustainability goals.Brexit has also offered an opportunity for the CMA to go further than it has before in providing reassurance to businesses and clarity on the CMA’s enforcement approach in relation to environmental sustainability agreements.The CMA’s proposed new guidance, published today...

28 February, 2023