The Battlesteads Dark Sky Observatory, in Wark on Tyne, North-East A NEW generation of stargazers are being inspired following the launch of a dark skies festival. Northumberland National Park is working together with CLIF Bar to launch a new initiative to follow on from the first virtual Northumberland Dark Skies Festival. The site was one of five National Parks in the UK to receive a grant from CLIF Bar as part of their National Parks Protectors Fund, receiving a £10,000 grant to support the park’s dark skies conservation projects. The project helps to raise public awareness of the issues of light pollution, and the need to help conserve the pristine dark skies.
Patient airlifted to hospital after seven hour mountain rescue operation in Northumberland
Volunteers were called out after paramedics couldn t get to a patient on a remote Northumberland farm
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Northumberland National Park Authority partners with creative programme Art Diamonds
The winning entry of a competition The Arts Diamond group took part in which encouraged them to create their own poems and illustrations to capture their feelings evoked by the Lost Words. Northumberland National Park Authority has partnered with the Art Diamonds project to help people of retirement age get creative and connect with nature. Art Diamonds is a programme of creative activities and events for people of retirement age led by Gateshead Council’s Libraries, Arts and Heritage Service. The project has almost 200 members who take part in arts activities to help improve their wellbeing.