Some Good Kettering News For A Change

Being from Kettering can be tough.  Our football club is meekly slithering to consecutive relegations, the town centre is a dismal shop-free wasteland and James Acaster is unfathomably considered the funniest person from the borough.  But not everything is going against the residents of the Holy City.

Buccleuch Estates have today been refused permission to bulldoze some of the few remaining woods and meadows in Kettering to build even more warehouses that would be standing empty for years to come.  It's possible Buccleuch Estates will appeal as there are two things the obscenely rich don't like.  Not getting even richer is one and having the proles telling them what to do is the other.  In this case, the people of Kettering, wonderfully well marshalled by Dez Dell plus many others and their "Save Weekley Hall Wood" campaign have risen up and said a resounding "NO" to our betters.  

I'm sure the Duke will be furious that the peasants have stymied his evil plans, and wishes it was the 17th century so he could round up the ringleaders and have them hunted with his hounds.   But it's not, your Grace.  It's the 21st Century now, so you'll have to go the modern route and consider "fiscally-encouraging" our easily-swayed, tame local council to get your way.  Or, perhaps look to get on the right side of history and consider a different plan that doesn't trash what little of our countryside you haven't already covered in asphalt and tin roofs?  

Green - yes, Greed - no.

https://saveweekleyhallwood.com/

Another sunset.  One we hope we'll continue to enjoy
(c) Dan Whitney