VISITORS to Holy Island have given their backing to a pilot scheme aimed at reducing the number of people getting stranded and having to be rescued from the causeway.Read
VANDALS started a fire in one of four cars they damaged on a garage forecourt. The raid happened at 12.20am on Monday at Etal Road, Tweedmouth, Berwick.Read
A COUNCIL that refuses to let a Northumberland tourist attraction have roadside advertising has put a sign on the site's land - without its owner's permission.Read
A GROUP set up to find ways of stopping cars getting stuck on the Holy Island causeway has ruled out any major changes to the road after opposition from local people.Read
THE owner of a £45,000 Porsche stolen from a farm in Northumberland has released dramatic CCTV pictures showing thieves taking his car in the dead of night.Read
INSTALLING automatic barriers to stop drivers using the Holy Island causeway when the tide is in would be ineffective and potentially dangerous, according to local residents.Read
AN ELDERLY couple have become the latest motorists to spark a rescue operation attempting to cross a Northumberland causeway while it was under water.Read
A HOLIDAYMAKER had to be evacuated by helicopter off Holy Island after falling ill. The woman, in her 30s, was staying in the Seahouses area of Northumberland on holiday and had gone with a group to visit Lindisfarne.Read
A ROW has broken out in a Northumberland town over plans for a new home for its Jehovah’s Witnesses congregation. The vicar of a church at Berwick has claimed Jehovah’s Witnesses are not Christians, in response to their application to build a new Kingdom Hall at Scremerston.Read
ISLANDERS whose lives are disrupted by tourists getting stuck on the causeway have told council bosses they will not accept solutions that will inconvenience them.Read
ISLANDERS who regularly see motorists getting stuck on their causeway when it is under water have launched a petition opposing the erection of barriers.Read
