Voters in Northumberland are set to head to the polls next year to vote for their county councillor for the first time since 2021.

Hardy swimmers braved the North Sea for the annual Boxing Day dips. At England's most northerly beach, at Spittal, ...

After WW1 they restarted in 1919 in the North Northumberland League as Amble United, quickly joining the Ashington & District ...

Members of the Blyth Lifeguard and Swimming club celebrated the festive day in a different way to many when they took part in ...

Blyth and Ashington MP Ian Lavery was also on strike at Christmas ... The coal industry, by then much-reduced, was privatised ...

With solidarity coming in from across Britain and the world, PETER LAZENBY speaks to the people who made Christmas 1984 a ...

UK: Cheers greeted the arrival of the first Northumberland Line passenger service at Ashington station on December 15, more ...

When the 08.36 to Newcastle pulls out of Ashington station on Sunday, heralding the first passenger train on the Northumberland Line in more than 60 years, the people of north-east England would ...

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Ahead of services starting on the new Northumberland Line on15 December, Northern has released time-lapse footage recorded ...