YOUR article on wind farms purports to present a balanced picture, yet it quotes from the ‘Renewable Energy Foundation’ which is a lobby group against wind farms with finance from the fossil fuel industry. It quotes from 12 ...
WE have been readers of The Northumbrian for some years now and have enjoyed many holidays in your lovely county, and hope to retire there in the not-too-distant future. However, we have just read the article on wind farms which ...
WHEN I walk my dog at Boulmer I often see a pair of barn owls, but on February 8 I saw and followed a long-eared owl in the fields just back from the coast. I have never seen one before, so to make sure I went to check in my bird ...
I AM part of a group in Belford researching Thomas Tait, a clockmaker in the village in the early 1800s, as part of a project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund on Belford’s Dissenting history. After Thomas left Belford he opened ...
THANK you for publishing our letter (Issue 131) seeking a new home for a set of back copies of The Northumbrian from Issue 1 to 120. We had a quick response from Mr Morris Garret from Manchester and were able to deliver all the ...
I WAS interested to read your article about the Deer Stalking Certificates (Issue 131). I am very concerned about animal welfare and won’t eat meat if I can’t be sure that the animal had a good life and a ‘kind death’. This ...
I WAS interested to see the photograph of ‘The Retreat’, where John Prescott started work as a vet in Morpeth (Issue 131). It was originally called Thorpe House and it was where my grandmother, Rachel Dickenson, was born and ...
IN John Grundy’s article ‘In Bridge Terms’ (Issue 128) the bridge referred to as West Wylam Bridge is called Hagg Bank Bridge, but it has always been known to the people of Wylam as The Points Bridge. Hagg Bank is also known as ...
FOR the past couple of years I have ordered a variety of items, such as books, CDs and table mats, as Christmas presents from The Northumbrian and have always been very pleased with their quality. Last September my husband and I were ...
MY husband and I regularly journey between County Durham and Berwick. We always take the scenic route north from Morpeth on the A697 to Wooler and have often stopped for coffee at the Embleton Hall Hotel in Longframlington. We ...