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  • PHOTO GALLERY: A-Levels results day

    Teenagers across the Tyne Valley were celebrating top A-level results this week. The district's schools experienced improved results across the board as students opened the dreaded envelopes on Thursday morning. Check out our photo gallery featuring

  • Team and star of the week - August 15

    THE odds were stacked against Tynedale Harriers in their bid to avoid relegation from the North of England Harriers' League Division 3A.  They needed to accumulate 140 points from their home fixture against teams from across the region, at Hexham's

  • Farmer’s design to help deter criminals

    TIRED of his land being targeted by illegal poachers, a Bellingham farmer has created a new product aimed at stopping criminals in their tracks. John Goodfellow, of Goodfellow Farming Ltd, The Riding, had dealt with poachers trespassing on his

  • OPINION: Public pressure

    THE teacher who made headlines around the world after building a cyborg structure outside his sci-fi museum in Allendale has been granted a reprieve. Neil Cole has been embroiled in a planning row over the “Dalek enclosure” at his Museum of Classic

  • Shop counts the cost of flash floods

    COMMUNITIES across Tynedale were counting the cost this week of flash flooding which hit the district at the weekend. A vast clean-up operation took place earlier this week after flooding hit roads, homes and businesses throughout the area on Saturday

  • Councillors save Dalek from extermination

    THE Allendale Dalek will not be exterminated after county councillors voted to allow it to stay for a year. At Tuesday’s Tynedale Local Area Council meeting, councillors overruled a recommendation from Northumberland County Council planning officers