TESTS are to be carried out at homes close to a large cement factory after complaints from local families that they are being plagued by excessive dust and noise.Read
BOSSES at a Northumberland school have gone ahead with controversial plans to erect a £25,000 security fence despite claims that it is a waste of taxpayers' money.Read
ANGRY parish councillors in Northumberland have accused the county council of reneging on a promise to consult them properly over the establishment of a key umbrella organisation.Read
CELEBRATIONS were held last night at a unique collection of wartime relics which have been transformed into a new visitor attraction and educational resource for the region.Read
THE devastated family of a teenage girl who died suddenly in her sleep last night spoke of the "huge void" she has left behind in the lives of all who knew her.Read
STUDENTS in a former pit town famed for its sporting heroes are getting a head start in their efforts to become the next generation of star performers.Read
FINANCES have improved at a North East college where teachers voted for strike action last year in protest at cost-cutting measures, according to a new report.Read
A TELECOMS giant's bid to site a mobile phone mast half a mile from one of the region's top historic treasures has been given the green light by a Government planning inspector.Read
A GREEN power company is to invite bids for the contract to build a 13-turbine wind farm in a North East landscape which has been dominated by giant industrial chimneys for decades.Read
A TELECOMS giant has sparked anger by deciding to put up a mobile phone mast outside a popular primary school - despite only getting planning approval because of a council blunder.Read
PARENTS of a North East victim of the Lockerbie bombing say the long-running campaign for a public inquiry into the atrocity will continue, although optimism is fading that it will ever happen.Read
JOBSEEKERS in Northumberland who can’t take up employment opportunities because of transport problems are being offered help by a pioneering project that literally puts them on the road to success.Read
THE Duke of Northumberland has stoked up the fierce debate over wind energy development in the North East by launching a withering attack on the impact of massive turbines on the region’s unspoiled countryside.Read
