Environment

Efforts are being stepped up to cut plastic waste on the north Northumberland coast.

Northumberland Wildlife Trust will be hosting its first Catch My Drift coffee morning at Hadston House Community Centre.

All nine of Verdant Leisure’s holiday parks, including Riverside Leisure Park at Wooler, will be hosting a tidy-up this weekend to support Keep Britain Tidy’s month-long spring-clean initiative.

It is a fine day: blue skies and sunshine and a breeze ruffling the marram in the dunes.

Vital work to help protect endangered eels species is starting in Warkworth next week.

The RSPB is calling on people who spend time in Northumberland's remote hills and moorlands to look out for hen harriers, England’s most threatened bird of prey.

Volunteers are needed to help protect and monitor vulnerable shorebirds nesting along the coast this summer.

Businesses in north Northumberland were invited to a special event in Alnwick to find out more about a campaign to promote the county.

Work is expected to begin in the autumn on a £1.2million investment into the sewer network in the Whitton and Rothbury area.

More than 80 people turned out to give Alnwick a spring clean on Sunday.

A scheme which encourages responsible dog ownership in Northumberland has signed up its 2,000th member.

Volunteers turned out in force to help clear rubbish from a north Northumberland beach.

Warmer weather is officially on the approach - and as we wait for the summer months, members of the public are being warned to keep an eye out for ticks.

The plaintive ‘courl-eee’ call of the first curlews returning to Northumberland’s uplands is the first sign of spring for many hill-folk.

A Northumberland discovery centre has welcomed its 250,000th visitor.