Alnwick, United Kingdom News

Tha A1068 was closed from 11.25am after a Nissan and a Landrover collided at Hawkhill between Alnwick and Lesbury.

A SECURITY fence built around a Northumberland school despite opposition from neighbours is to be moved at a cost of 11,500 - after a resident's success in a right of way battle.

To some people that is seen as a positive - at least it's not the 25 lost each week in 2010.

YOU spend ages waiting for a bus and then two turn up - only to skid on ice and come perilously close to plunging into a seaside marsh.

The Lindisfarne Middle School fence that has been moved at the rear of Ray Prudhoe's house on Swansfield Park Road.

Formerly the Black Swan, the pub hit the headlines in 2001 when new owners Wessex Taverns announced the Hairy Lemon name.

Following last week's reports that Pippa Middleton and George Percy were dating, today, another source says just the opposite.

A MYSTERY punter could be quids in after betting on Britain's most desirable woman marrying the Duke of Northumberland's son, weeks before recent speculation saw odds slashed.

WINDFARM developers lining up 18 turbines for a moor in north Northumberland have pledged to create a 1.6million community benefit fund to run over the next 20 years.

A DESPERATE shortage of affordable homes in north Northumberland has been highlighted by shock figures which show that thousands of families are waiting for social housing.

POTENTIAL bus service changes have been put forward in a consultation document about public transport in the next five years.

SCHOOLS in north Northumberland had a mixed bag of ratings in the GCSE and A-Level performance tables released this morning.

Community-led plans for the Festival of Alnwick, in celebration of London 2012, are gathering pace following an intense series of meetings between local groups and partners including the town and county councils, Alnwick Castle and Garden, and RAF Boulmer.

Shilbottle Bus Petition Travelsure/Arriva Parish Council Chairman Tommy Scott with the petition and Margaret Farrar, Bob Wade, Margaret Knox and Ken Walker at one of the bus stops in the village.

A CAR driven by a suspected drink driver collided with a police van and a lorry before smashing through a garden fence in Northumberland.

A PENSIONER died after he sat down on a main rail line and was struck by a train, an inquest heard.

Youngsters get to grips with the facts about corn and grain during the farmers' visit to Canning Street Primary School Dozens of pupils aged four and five tried their hand at making bread and butter, as well as feeding chickens.

And a card from the Queen took pride of place in her room, along with messages from other well-wishers. Raised in Eshott, Northumberland, Mabel has witnessed two World Wars, the beginnings of aviation, space travel and the glory days of Newcastle United's famous FA Cup treble in the 1950s.

Seahouses Development Trust recently appointed Ciara Van Vogt as its new chief executive officer and she began work on Monday.

FROM the bride who said I don't to the feuding families who had to be coerced to pose for a picture together, professional photographer George Skipper has seen some colourful weddings in his time.