The transformation of Bedlington reaches another landmark later this month with the completion of major improvements to the historic Market Place.

A leaked report has laid bare the full extent of a £16m package of cuts being drawn up by council bosses in Northumberland.

Action taken to reduce the impact of car parking charges on recession-hit town centres across England has been seized on by campaigners fighting to retain free parking in part of Northumberland.

Tourism chiefs in Northumberland want to attract more and higher-spending visitors in a bid to further develop a vital industry which ploughs £710m a year into the county's economy.

The national leader of Britain's miners is bidding to become the next Labour MP for the former North East coal industry stronghold where he made his political name.

More than 100 police officers staged a series of raids on suspected members of an organised crime gang believed to be behind ram raids on ATM hole in the wall cash machines.

Families living on an unfinished upmarket estate have been promised council help after their housing developers were placed into administration.

Northumberland County Council voted to close the facilities used as meeting places by elderly and disabled people at Amble, Blyth, Bedlington, Haltwhistle, Hexham, Ponteland and Prudhoe.

In September last year Melissa, 26, and partner Bradley Gaughan, of Bedlington in Northumberland, were left heartbroken when their son Elijah was born four months early and died after just three hours.

Frustrated families are facing the prospect of having to pay for the completion of unfinished work on their trouble-plagued housing estate following the collapse of its development company.