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Tony Henderson

Tony Henderson

Seahouses Heritage Museum to auction off its exhibits

BUYERS could land an off-beat bargain when thousands of items from a seaside museum come up for auction.Read

Beamish Museum celebrates a bygone age of trams

FOR 50 years trams transported the masses across the North East. By 1950-51 they had been ousted by buses in Newcastle and Gateshead and in 1954 Sunderland followed suit.Read

A splash of colour returns – and it’s all due to the cuts

IT is something which generations of children who passed through the gates of a Tyneside industrial town’s junior school could never have envisaged.Read

DLI's regimental silver sale raises £62,000 to help memorial

THOUSANDS of pieces of regimental silver sold to help finance a memorial statue have fetched almost £62,000.Read

Final swim before the plug is pulled at at Newcastle City Pool and Turkish baths

USERS of a listed city centre swimming pool and Turkish baths were plunged into a mix of sorrow and anger yesterday as the attractions closed to the public as part of spending cuts.Read

North East survey reveals woodpigeon a common sight in gardens

SUBURBAN life is increasingly suiting what was once a countryside bird, a survey of North East gardens has shown.Read

North East beaches fail water quality tests

A NUMBER of beaches in the North East have failed tests on water quality after one of the wettest years on record.Read

Starved puffins found washed up along North East coast

HUNDREDS of puffins have been washed up dead and dying on the North East coast as the latest victims of the extreme cold weather.Read

Scanner to reveal secrets of a 320 million-year-old skull found in Blyth

AT 320 million years old, this fossilised amphibian skull is by some margin the oldest patient to be seen at a North East hospital.Read

There's a buzz at the Great North Museum over the future of bees

WARM sunny days with bees going about their beneficial business in the background seem far away as the winter weather still has the whip hand.Read

Risque 1930s cartoons by Morpeth man H. Beresford Wilson up for auction

MYSTERY surrounds a batch of professionally-drawn cartoons from the 1930s coming up for auction next week.Read

Adventurer's watch is up for auction in Newcastle

AWATCH which belonged to a pioneering cameraman and adventurer who worked on films from James Bond to Tarka the Otter is to be auctioned on Tyneside.Read

£10.5m visitor centre on Hadrian's Wall to boost tourism

A VISITOR centre to boost Northumberland National Park takes a big step forward today.Read

Carraw B&B expansion plans may harm Hadrian's Wall site say planners

ROOM expansion plans by an award-winning farm B&B on the line of Hadrian’s Wall may be thrown out because of concerns over the impact on the world heritage site.Read

Wildlife photographer Leslie Holburn wins competition

TALKING to weasels is not a exactly a habit for wildlife photographer Leslie Holburn.Read

Cycling research on Tyneside shows more are getting on bikes

RESEARCH on Tyneside has, for the first time in a UK urban environment, tracked routes chosen by cyclists on commuter and every day rides.Read

Northumberland hero who discovered Antarctica to be rescued from obscurity

AMBITIOUS plans were revealed yesterday for an expedition to Antarctica which would rescue a North East explorer from historical obscurity.Read

Bede’s World in Jarrow to get oak amphitheatre

AN amphitheatre which once stood on an ancient royal palace site in Northumberland is to be replicated at a Tyneside heritage site.Read

Quality of North East rural life drives job creation says new report

THE high quality of the North East’s rural landscape is attracting creative entrepreneurs from outside the region who set up businesses with growth potential, a new report says.Read

Newcastle photographer captures majesty of red kite in flight

A RECORD of the flight of a giant red kite around top landscape locations in the North East was unveiled yesterday.Read

Author Profile

Environment editor Tony Henderson was writing about green matters long before they were fashionable. A well-respected voice on everything from recycling and architecture to nature and heritage matters, he is a multi-award winner and has also published two books of articles from his popular My Country feature.

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