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July 2024

  • VW campervan against a blue sky

    Brief letters
    Charles and Camilla could become happy campers if they travelled by VW

  • Bamburgh castle seen in the distance overlooking a long stretch of sandy beach and calm sea; the sky is blue and there is a small village seen behind the castle

    Bamburgh judged UK’s best seaside destination by Which? readers for fourth year

  • Branigan crouching down and looking away from the camera, at one of two large heart-shaped tree trunk prints behind her

    ‘Its memory will live on’: prints of Sycamore Gap tree to go on display

  • Kit eating grass caught on camera at night in a black and white image

    National Trust celebrates birth of baby beaver one year after reintroduction

  • Brief letters
    Now that’s not what I call a lazy journalist

  • Rapid results: UK ballot counters braced for race to declare first winner

June 2024

  • William Armstrong’s Cragside home, pictured from below

    Weatherwatch
    William Armstrong: Victorian who built first hydroelectric-powered house

    Visionary engineer predicted problems with fossil fuels and advocated renewable power generation

May 2024

  • The Sycamore Gap tree just after it was felled in September

    King to plant sapling from Sycamore Gap tree in Windsor Great Park

  • Face of Aras Rudzianskas, 13, who died on Tuesday after he got into difficulty in the River Tyne on Saturday.

    Second boy dies in hospital after being pulled from River Tyne

  • Carl and Stella Hattersley stand beside the River Tyne holding a photograph of their late son Robert

    Northumberland council criticised after latest drowning in River Tyne

  • A view of the Tyne at Ovingham, near Newcastle.

    Boy dies and second in critical condition after getting into difficulty in River Tyne

April 2024

  • Construction of the car batter factory at theBlyth site had begun by the time Britishvolt had been put on ‘life support’ in the summer of 2022.

    Britishvolt ‘gigafactory’ site to be sold for £110m to US private equity firm

    Blackstone’s plans for data centre unlikely to generate thousands of jobs failed startup promised with Northumberland battery plant
  • Who She Wanted and What She Got, Kids at the In-laws, Boxing Day, South Bank,
Middlesbrough. 1982

    Boom and bust in the industrial north-east – in pictures

    A new exhibition brings together Chris Killip and Graham Smith’s seminal shots of England’s north-east from 1975-87, a period when heavy industry and working-class life were transformed
  • SallyAnn Gibson on the 5th hole at Alnmouth village golf club, which is under threat from coastal erosion.

    ‘Awful’: climate crisis threatens to sink historic north-east golf club

    Saving Alnmouth from rising seas and coastal erosion complicated by links course being on private land

March 2024

  • Puffins rest on the rock of Inner Farne after recently migrating.

    Northumberland’s Farne Islands reopen to visitors after bird flu outbreak

  • Workers removing the Sycamore Gap tree by Hadrian's Wall in October 2023.

    Felled Sycamore Gap tree to go on public display in Northumberland

February 2024

  • Campaigner Dennis Fancett, chair of the South East Northumberland Rail User Group

    ‘Proper exciting’: passenger trains to return to Northumberland Line after 60 years

  • Ingrid Pollard with a work made of slate in the Belsay Hall library.

    Turner-listed artist brings landscape into 19th-century Northumberland hall

December 2023

  • An upturned car at a roadside

    Rise in dashcam submissions leads to more dangerous drivers being caught

  • The incident involved a Suzuki Vitara, a Range Rover Evoque and a Ford Focus.

    Two teenagers dead after car crash in Northumberland

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