MORE than 260 people have been arrested, stolen property worth £18,000 recovered and drugs valued at £10,000 seized in a major police crackdown on crime in Northumberland.Read
A CALL has been made for urgent action to generate more renewable energy in Northumberland – after it was revealed the county is a long way short of its 2010 target for the production of green power.Read
ALMOST 200 new jobs are in the pipeline for a Northumberland town as part of a £7.6m investment by one of the country’s leading supermarket chains.Read
STALLS put up in a £3m market revamp could be closed because of frost – as well as wind. Traders already angered by shut downs during gusty weather last night spoke of their anger at the latest stage of the row.Read
A STUNNING collection of photographs taken in all corners of the globe by members of a tiny North East camera club has gone on display at a leading visitor attraction.Read
BRITAIN’S biggest coal company is bidding to resurrect opencast mining operations in a swathe of Northumberland countryside which was extensively dug up for more than 15 years.Read
PEOPLE in Blyth Valley have been warned they could experience delays in receiving their housing and council tax benefits while a town hall information database is transferred to a new system.Read
A MOTHER-of-two has spoken of her terror after a man tried to force her to hand over her car as she visited a Northumberland coastal beauty spot with her children.Read
ANGER has erupted over plans to raise almost £800,000 for Northumberland’s new super-council by increasing the charges people pay for a raft of town hall-provided services.Read
FLOOD victims in a Northumberland town are being asked to take part in a major survey amid claims of massive hikes in insurance premiums in the wake of the catastrophe.Read
FURIOUS stallholders last night claimed problems with a £3m market were getting worse. Traders on Blyth market place – revamped last year at a cost of £3m – say the stalls have suffered a massive failure rate.Read
SCORES of families will be moved out of their homes for six months while they are demolished and rebuilt in a £7m project to remodel an ageing housing estate in a Northumberland town.Read
VILLAGERS who have lived for decades in the shadow of giant industrial chimneys are now facing the prospect of looking out on 13 wind turbines which will be even bigger.Read
Plans to create a 13-turbine wind farm on land next to the Alcan aluminium complex at Lynemouth, Northumberland have been given the green light by the Government.Read
NORTHUMBRIA Police has pledged to learn lessons and make improvements after concerns about the force’s role in Morpeth’s devastating floods were raised during an independent review of the catastrophe.Read
