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  • Household hurly burly has come with the odd hiccup

    If you are going to have a new kitchen fitted, don’t do it in November. At the time of writing, Hextol Towers is a riot of whirring jigsaws, screeching drills, clattering hammers and swirling sawdust all played out to the counterpoint of the hysterical

  • The poetry of Wilfrid Gibson – a panacea for our times?

    Reading the poems Wilfrid Gibson wrote about his native Northumberland takes you to another place – a place less rushed than the world we live in today. And it’s a world Mike Tickell is hoping to introduce to more people who, up until now, may have

  • Live music at Corbridge Parish Hall pop-up event

    A POP-UP event will bring live music and good food and drink to Corbridge Parish Hall. Quirky to the Core has organised the live music event, called Tyne for a Folking Drink, for Sunday, November 17. The music is being performed by North-East

  • Top cop leads cybercrime unit at Northumbria Police

    She’s one of the officers leading the way in how Northumbria Police tackles complex cybercrime, but when Rachel Richardson joined the force in 2005 she was nothing more than a new recruit with a desire to become a detective. Now, 14 years into her

  • Thieves target rural farms during the week

    THIEVES and poachers have been spotted across Tynedale this week, according to police. Northumbria Police's Farmwatch flagged up a number of reports on farms, including the theft of a trailer from a shead near Carter Bar ovenight on Wednesday,