Northumberland County, England News

POLITICIANS will take to Morpeth's streets to press the case for fair parking charges.

A comprehensive school is allowing pupils a lie-in every day in the hope that they will engage more in class if they get more sleep.

The annual Victorian Christmas Market is set to return to North Shields. Organisers say mix of traditional and modern Christmas themed family fun will fill Northumberland Square on Saturday December 12 and Sunday December 13.

SPA hotels, a wider range of evening activities and state-of-the-art interactive entertainment would put Alnwick on the global tourist map, according to former Disneyland Paris boss Christian Perdrier.

A SERIAL thief has been granted her wish to spend the next few weeks in prison after she convinced magistrates she would be better off locked up than on the streets.

NEIGHBOURS have spoken of their sadness after a woman died in a Prudhoe street on a freezing cold night.

COMPOST made from flowers left in memory of Sir Bobby Robson is going on sale this weekend.

EXACTLY what led to a woman being found dying in a street was at the centre of a probe today.

Pupils are celebrating the opening of a new A 20.3 million school in Whitley Bay.

A 59-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the management of a brothel in a Tyneside town.

TEENAGERS in Alnwick are spearheading a consultation for a new bike track. Plans for the facility at The Park, on Swansfield Park Road, have been drawn up by young people at the Gallery Youth Project in collaboration with Alnwick Community Development Trust, Northumbria Police community support officers and Alnwick Town Cou ncil.

ALNWICK'S future lies in its past a ' that's the vision of the French former Disneyland Paris chief who has just been appointed to lead the town's two biggest tourist attractions.

Insects' towering structures will be safeguarded during timber removal process in Northumberland woodland The forestry Commission's Jonathan Farries checks the GPS settings on one of the rare giant ant nests in the Holystone forest.

COUNCIL chiefs were yesterday accused of declaring "war on the elderly" after plans to close seven day care centres were given the green light.

MORPETH will remember its fallen servicemen and women in a series of tributes. The events will honour those who have given up their lives in two world wars and more than 70 conflicts since, including Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Nests in Northumberland made by the formidable hairy northern wood ant - the UK's biggest - have been given a unique GPS address and plotted on hi-tech maps to protect them during forestry operations.

MORE signage is a must for Morpeth retailers as the town's new development nears completion.

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POLICE are hunting for a kidnapper after he tried to snatch a woman from a suburban Tyneside street in broad daylight at the weekend.