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COUNTY bosses have called for a “reality check” after the destruction caused by Storm Arwen.

SPECIALIST speakers are to discuss what makes great housing in Northumberland and the public is invited to attend.

Northumberlands visitors and residents are being encouraged to help protect birdlife by a council scheme. Space for Shorebirds, Northumberland County Council’s scheme to protect the birds and dunes of the county’s coast, aims to safeguard birds and dunes during spring, which is a time of transition for nesting birds. At this time, some species leave the area for Arctic breeding grounds, while others come to nest on Northumberland’s beaches, having spent the winter in warmer climes....

VILLAGERS are celebrating victory after controversial proposals to build a climate positive house on a popular spot in green belt land were turned down. The application, which would have seen the house - described as a Bond Villains lair by one objector - built on land south of Church Lane in Riding Mill. The applicants attempted to use Paragraph 79 of the National Planning Policy Framework, which allows new dwellings to be built in the countryside where they are of exceptional design, to...