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  • Mart report from the week beginning August 7

    On Tuesday Hexham and Northern Mart held their weekly sale of prime sheep and cattle. Five Clean Butchers Heifers forward this week which sold to a high of 229.5ppkg for a very well finished Limousin x from Messrs GW Dodd & Sons, Saugh House, Belsay

  • Warning issued to residents over loan sharks

    Northumberland County Council is urging residents to be on their guard when borrowing money or being offered credit. The authority’s housing and public protection trading standards team have received reports of a business working in the county putting

  • Dozens of police officers arrested across Northumbria force

    POLICE have arrested dozens of their own staff in the North-East over the past four years. Figures released this week by media group Newsquest’s Data Investigation Unit revealed that a total of 34 members of staff working for Northumbria Police

  • Development the blueprint for growth of firm

    A CONTENTIOUS housing development has been hailed as the 'flagship project' for a local firm of architects. As eight new homes at the Coach House site on Corbridge Road, in Hexham, near completion, Ollie Currie, a director at Corbridge-based 33

  • Fun day says thank you to fund-raisers

    A TEAM of fund-raisers from the Tyne Valley have raised almost £9,000 for prostate cancer research. Ashley Kennedy and her mum Shirley Hind have worked together, along with some of their friends, to collect £8,945 by climbing mountains, sponsored

  • Forsyth plays his cards right to seal vital win

    HEXHAM got their Northern Alliance Division One season off to a flyer with a confident 3-0 win away to Hebburn Town U23 on Saturday. Despite torrential rain across the North-East, the weather was a little kinder at Mountbatten Avenue, where the

  • Rail union to protest over rising ticket prices

    PROTESTERS will gather outside Carlisle railway station on Wednesday as an increase in rail fares on Britain’s railways is announced. Activists and supporters of the RMT rail union will attend more than 30 stations across the UK, calling for a publicly

  • Allendale Dalek saved from extermination

    THE Allendale Dalek has been saved - for one year at least. Members of Tynedale Local Area Council meeting overruled a recommendation from Northumberland County Council planning officers to refuse planning permission for a shed which houses a Dalek

  • Trial set for man accused of burgling Co-op

    A MAN accused of the burglary of a village shop is due to stand trial next year. Gary Hosie (36), of Merton Road, Newcastle, will return to Newcastle Crown Court on February 11 after denying a charge of burgling Wylam Co-op on April 23. He

  • Popular show takes a break for a year

    A TRADITIONAL town show which has been a mainstay for more than 50 years will not take place this year due to pressure on volunteers. Prudhoe Town Show, which usually takes place in September and attracts gardeners, cooks and those showing off their

  • TV bakers will share tips at event

    THEY impressed millions of people on TV, and now a couple will give Tyne Valley residents first-hand lessons in the art of baking. Richard Winfield and Bernadett Szucs, the owner of Newcastle-based Dreamworld Cakes, appeared on Channel 4's Bake

  • Woman rescued after fall

    A WOMAN was rescued after a fall in Blanchland on Saturday.  Volunteers from Northumberland National Park Mountain Rescue Team joined Teesdale and Weardale Search and Mountain Rescue Team and the North East Ambulance Service at around 12.30pm to