VILLAGERS’ hopes of buying their local pub have got off to a flying start, with more than £20,000 already put into the share purchase fund to buy the Rose and Crown at Slaley, Northumberland.Read
A PUBLIC meeting will be held tonight to discuss controversial plans from housebuilder Taylor Wimpey to build 54 homes on two sites in Corbridge, Northumberland.Read
THE OPENCAST firm bidding to dig over 2m tonnes of coal from a scenic site on the Durham-Northumberland border has sold the land just weeks before a decision is due.Read
ORGANISERS of one of the region’s most popular events fear traffic chaos after it was announced that one of two main roads into it would not be fixed for another six months.Read
A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy with a chronic lung condition may be forced to leave the school he loves if opencast coal proposals on a village’s fringe are given the go-ahead.Read