IT’S the market town where no market has been held for around 150 years. It even has a Market Square ... but no market graces its ancient cobbles.
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SERVICES which protect children and young people from harm in Northumberland have been rated as outstanding, and among the best in the country, by national watchdogs.Read
PLANS to revive a run-down centrepiece building in the heart of a scenic Northumberland village have gone on hold in a row over affordable housing.Read
NORTHUMBERLAND’S fighting spirit is on the agenda for Newcastle University historian John Sadler in a series of Tynedale library lectures in the next two months.Read
MUCH like an apprentice from a bygone era, a teenager from Northumberland is learning the ancient art of leatherwork as part of a modern-day apprenticeship scheme.Read
A CHARITY has had its future assured by a £330,000 lottery fund boost. The cash injection gives Northumberland’s Natural Ability five years of funding to enable them to develop ambitious plans.Read
AS A child of five in 1916, Allen Smith watched in awe as his father James carried a blazing barrel above his head in the traditional Allendale New Year Tar Bar’l ceremony.Read
FOLLOWING the departure for Spain of choirmaster Ed Aldcroft, the Dale Singers of Allendale will start life next week with a new conductor, Sophia Castro. Read
