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The work is being carried out by Alncom, the Alnwick-based local broadband experts. Alncom managing director Stephen Pinchen said: “We were originally going to install a full fibre network around the Morwick Road area of Warkworth, but made the decision to extend this into the rest of the village via Morwick and The Butts, then widen the whole full fibre network to Acklington and the surrounding areas in Northumberland. "We are local and it’s important that our home region gets access to th...

Trouble: Posting a letter got the defendant into trouble MAGISTRATES have jailed a 44-year-old Carlisle man for six weeks after he admitted flouting a restraining order. Matthew Adam Neale, whose address was given as The County Hotel, Botchergate, breached the order by sending a letter from Acklington - though the charge does not say to whom it was addressed. The letter was in breach of a restraining order that was imposed by magistrates in Carlisle on July 22 last year, the court heard. ...

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HMP Northumberland visitor used sheet of paper setting out dos and donts to smuggle drugs to inmate Faye Bainbridge, of Houghton-le-Spring, was spotted on CCTV as she passed a small amount of a heroin substitute to a prisoner The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Get the latest Northumberland news and updates delivered straight to your inboxInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these n...

Photo credit should read: Yui Mok/PA Wire. The following cases were heard at Teesside and Cleveland Magistrates Court this week. MR DONINIC JOHN TAYLOR, 18 of Blakey Close in Middlesbrough was given a community order and disqualified from driving for two years after trespassing into someone’s home and stealing car keys, house keys, two watches, taking a vehicle without consent and damaging the vehicle and on another occasion trespassed into a different property and stole car keys and took...

Air Commodore Peter Malam Brothers destroyed 16 enemy aircraft during WWII  Was veteran of Battle of France, the Battle of Britain, the Dieppe raid and D-Day Most of his kills came in 1940 when he served as one of the The Few Air Commodore Brothers was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross twice Also received the Distinguished Service Order and the CBE for bravery  

Locked up in February 2021: Terrifying violence and shameful sex offending among the crimes to put these crooks behind bars Judges heard details of terrifying crimes as they sent these offenders to jail Sign up for our regular free newsletter for court stories sent straight to your inboxInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for oth...

Updated Chathill is one of the smaller stations where its hoped more trains will call. At the same time as progress is being made on the reintroduction of passenger services between the south-east of the county and Newcastle, work has been taking place to seek improvements to East Coast Main Line services, including at Alnmouth and Chathill. Conservative MPs Anne Marie Trevelyan, who represents Berwick-upon-Tweed, and Ian Levy (Blyth Valley) have joined with Northumberland County Council to s...

The former Acklington CofE First School. By the autumn, a report recommending closure at the end of December that year was presented to county councillors, in line with the governing body’s approval. Between May and the new academic year, the number of pupils on roll had fallen even further, from 13 to eight, with places available for them in other schools across the Coquet Partnership. However, the family and children’s services scrutiny committee, while agreeing to support the closure, ag...

North East byelaws overview North East byelaws apply to anyone fishing with a rod and line for salmon, trout, coarse fish, eels, smelt and lamprey in all freshwater fisheries. See the national rod fishing byelaws for rules that cover the whole country. The North East is divided into 2 byelaw areas – Northumbria and Yorkshire. Northumbria byelaw area This area covers all waters within river catchments in England that flow into the North Sea northwards from Boulby Craggs, Staithes (near Whitby)...