The Latest Breaking News from Northumberland

Police investigating after former tree of the year winner, estimated to be several hundred years old, felled

The Northumberland National Park authority said it was investigating what had happened.

David Hunter, from Ashington, Northumberland, will be sentenced next week for the manslaughter of his spouse of 52 years.

Travel back with me a few hundred years to before the industrial revolution, and the wildlife of Britain and Ireland looks very different indeed. Take orcas: while there are now less than ten left in Britain’s only permanent (and non-breeding) resident population, around 250 years ago the English cleric and…

Osprey numbers at Kielder Forest, Northumberland, have gone from strength-to-strength since they returned to the county in 2009.

Three people have been arrested and charged in Essex, Kent and Northumberland in connection with a high value cyber-enabled fraud which targeted a…

It is hoped the initiative approach could slash the county's carbon emissions

The fines could increase further by the end of the year

Amy Paton and Nikki Pilkington both tricked the victim, who lives in Blyth, Northumberland, into handing over his savings with lies about how he would be at risk from drug dealers if he failed to do so