The regions best selling
countryside magazine
The regions best selling
countryside magazine
AFTER an absence of over 150 years, one of Europe’s most spectacular birds is rapidly returning to the skies over Northumberland.
SALLY DIXON tried to make the right impression on her boyfriend by offering to help on his family’s farm; not her wisest decision.
STEWART BONNEY heads for the Cheviot Hills for a circular walk which takes in riverside, forest and moorland.
ALLAN POTTS goes on a fungus hunt in the autumn woodlands.
Well, mostly sandstone to be more precise, and a jolly good thing too, as JOHN GRUNDY explains.
GRAHAME ANDERSON visits a remarkable museum just off the A1 north of Alnwick.
SUSIE WHITE admires the garden sculptures created by artist blacksmith William Pym in his Langley workshop.
VERONICA HEATH finds out about the wild goats which roam our border uplands.
KARENZA STOREY begins a two-part history of the Kidland Valley, in the Cheviot Hills, by looking at the period from prehistory to the end of the 18th century.
DAVE NEVILLE asks whether suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, who so publicly ended up beneath the hooves of a racehorse, intended to take her own life.
JOHN STEELE welcomes the new freedom of access to many areas of open country, but stresses that it brings with it responsibilities.
PHIL HUNTLEY looks back at the heyday of shipbreaking in Blyth.
JOHN SURGEY follows the course of the Ouse Burn from South Gosforth downstream to its confluence with the Tyne.
STEWART BONNEY visits a breeding herd of South American alpacas — near Wooler.
ALAN WELLS recalls the events leading up to and following Northumberland’s worst rail disaster.
A taste of Northumberland
PASTIES: THE ORIGINAL TAKE-AWAY
News view
A round-up of local news stories
Book review by John Watson
Your letters
What's On Guide