A Russia military delegation arrived in North Korea as international concerns about the two countries’ expanding co-operation ...

Experts trained Ivor, a six-year-old cocker spaniel Labrador cross, to identify the highly destructive pathogen phytophthora ...

There's nothing quite like a real Christmas tree, and now the battle is on as retailers offer up the best value deals and cheapest trees ...

Find out how good your general knowledge is with our quiz that will get you ready for your next trip to the pub.

More than 100 vehicles were stopped and five people arrested in a rural crime crackdown. The operation, staged earlier this month, was part of Operation Checkpoint, an initiative aimed at tackling ...

Ponteland twins Grace and Hannah Stobart, known professionally as Twayn, will support Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra on his winter tour at Newcastle’s City Hall in December. Jools is ...

I went looking for discontinued chocolates in stores including Asda and B&M to see what was still available - this is what I found.

More than 500 people have been diagnosed with lung cancer earlier by a pioneering NHS programme. The Lung Cancer Screening programme, which is now active across the whole North Cumbria and North East ...

A mental health trust is to be gifted a 'Tree of Hope' sapling from the Sycamore Gap tree. Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust (CNTW) is one of 49 recipients chosen by the ...

A solicitor has been promoted less than 12 months after returning to the law firm where she trained. Hexham-based Nicholson Portnell Solicitors has appointed Laura Murphy to the role of senior ...

Away from the basics of sponges and clothes, I spotted a cleaning gadget on Temu that seemed too good to be true, a 4-in-1 Glass Cleaner that came with a brush, scraper, wiper, spray bottle and cloth ...

A new book on Hexham Abbey's 1,350-year history has been released, complete with visualisations. 'Hexham Abbey: A Souvenir', written by Molly Kady, a member of the Abbey’s Conservation Advisory Group, ...