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Last modified on Tue 9 Mar 2021 08.55 EST Tyne and Wear For millions of readers around the world, the image of the country between the mouths of the rivers Tyne and Wear was woven by Catherine Cookson, the region’s most prolific and popular author. Cookson’s was a landscape of collieries, shipyards, rumbling coal trains, sooty-faced kids and the instantly nostalgic tones of pithead silver bands playing Haydn. While fragments of her world remain – mainly in the doughty cheerfulness of the locals – over the past four decades, as heavy industry has receded, a more distant past has emerge...

The student tragically passed away at the university's Hughenden Park Student Village. Their death is not being treated as suspicious or as Covid-19 related. Residents in Little Marlow have expressed concerns that a film set which is rumoured to be for a Star Wars TV show could be there longer than planned as Covid-19 affects the filming schedule. An application for temporary permission for continued use of the Spade Oak nature reserve for film-making purposes between May 1, 2021, and November 1, 2021, has been supported by the Little Marlow parish council. It could cost up to £10...

The supermarket will be built on the corner of Bicester Road and Gatehouse Road. This will no doubt cause several delays on the roads as there will be a ‘new traffic signal controlled, four-way junction’, which will ‘provide access to the new site from Gatehouse Road and will include the current Gatehouse Way turn-off’.   A giant film set has been built in Little Marlow that is rumoured to be for the new Star Wars TV series. Built alongside the Spade Oak nature reserve the set includes dozens of houses, seemingly creating a galactic village for the filming of the show.

The set is built alongside the Spade Oak nature reserve in Little Marlow and placed in a well hidden wooded area. After The Sun newspaper said that villagers were "furious", residents have responded positively to the building of the new set. In a Bucks Free Press poll, nearly 60% of voters said they were “excited” by the film set. Other locals were impartial to the new set as 30% of voters aren’t concerned as long as the area is returned to its original state. One resident said on Facebook: “It's not really affecting the village itself, and if it brings in some much-needed ...