Schoolchildren are to be taught about the dangers of swimming in the River Tyne following the death of a 13-year-old boy last month. Robert Hattersley, from Crawcrook, got into difficulty while ...

Right now, the tide in River Tyne (North Shields) is rising Next High tide 2hr 33min (17:10 GMT) Next Low tide 9hr 5min (23:42 GMT) Low 01:49 1.7 Tidal information supplied by the UK Hydrographic ...

His striking photographs for the newspaper captured scenes around Britain just a few years before ... across this industrial stretch of the River Tyne. The oldest, the High Level Bridge, was ...

Northumbria University has begun a year-long study into the birds to explore their "unique role in urban ecology" ...

Nestled between Haltwhistle and Lambley Viaduct is the former Featherstone Park Prisoner of War Camp or 'Camp 18' as it was known.

The Esso Northumbria was the first in a series of Very Large Crude Carrier ships, built by Swan Hunter at Wallsend in 1969. At the time, she was the largest vessel to have been built in Britain.