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Template:/box-header Northamptonshire (/nɔːrˈθæmptənʃər/ or /nɔːrθˈhæmptənʃɪər/), abbreviated Northants or N/hants, archaically County of Northampton, is a landlocked county in the English East Midlands, with a population of 629,676 as at the 2001 census. It has boundaries with Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Cambridgeshire (including the city of Peterborough), Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire (including the borough of Milton Keynes), Oxfordshire, and Lincolnshire (England's shortest county boundary at 19 metres (21 yd)). The county town is Northampton. Other towns include Kettering, Wellingborough, Corby and Daventry. Template:/box-footer

Northampton (<phonos file="en-uk-Northampton.ogg">pronunciation</phonos>) is a large market town and local government district in the East Midlands region of England. It is about 67 miles (108 km) north-west of London and around 50 miles (80 km) south-east of Birmingham, and lies on the River Nene. It is the county town of Northamptonshire.

The district's population is 200,100 and the town population is 189,474, making Northampton the 21st-largest settlement in England, and the UK's 3rd-largest town without official city status

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Hugh Dennis (left) with Steve Punt on The Now Show

Peter Hugh Dennis (born 17 January 1962 in Kettering) is an English actor, comedian, writer, impressionist and voice-over artist, best known for his work with comedy partner Steve Punt. He uses his middle name Hugh as his stage name, because Equity already had a Peter Dennis, who was on the management panel.

Dennis has performed on various TV and radio shows, including Mock the Week, The Imaginatively Titled Punt and Dennis Show, New Tricks in the episode "Fresh Start", Outnumbered and sitcom Me, You and Him. He has guest hosted Have I Got News For You and played obnoxious GP Piers Crispin in BBC sitcom My Hero. He is friends with Chris Morris and has had cameos on Brass Eye.

Dennis lives in Farnham, Surrey, with his wife, Catherine ("Kate") Abbot-Anderson whom he married in 1996. They have two children, a son called Freddie (born March 28 1997) and a daughter called Meg (born July 2 1999).

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Template:/box-header Local BBC coverage:

• BBC Look East (Corby, Kettering, Northampton, Wellingborough)
• BBC East Midlands Today (Parts of the Corby Borough)
• BBC Oxford (South Northamptonshire)
• BBC Radio Northampton

Local ITV coverage:

• Anglia Television

Local Newspaper coverage:

• Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph
• Northampton Chronicle & Echo

17th century manor house in Coton, Northamptonshire

• ... that Peterborough was until 1965 part of Northamptonshire?
• ... that Kettering is home to the 2nd oldest theme park in the country?
• ... that Wellingborough's oldest existing building is the All Hallows Church which dates from c1160?
• ... that Northamptonshire's county flower is the cowslip?

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