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STROUD was earlier this year given the accolade by the Sunday Times as the best place to live in Britain.

Work to repair a heavily eroded river bank in a Tynedale town has been completed ahead of schedule. The Environment Agency has confirmed its project that involved strengthening the river bank below the riverside footpath in Haydon Bridge and then also re-planting the area with trees has been completed. The footpath located at the back of Rocksprings Crescent that goes towards the car park at Martins Close has now also reopened as a result of the finished work. "We’re delighted that the repair work along this section of river bank on the River South Tyne has been completed ahead of s...

Work has started to repair a heavily eroded section of river bank on the River South Tyne in Haydon Bridge, Northumberland.

A WOMAN who was a tireless fundraiser, resolute in her political beliefs and a former member of staff at the wartime code breaking centre has died. Sheilah Maureen Pitman (nee Westropp) was born into a military family; her father was Major-Gen Victor John Eric Westropp CB CBE, while her mother Elenita Augusta died when she was a teenager. During the Second World War she enlisted in the Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRENs) and worked at Bletchley Park, where the country’s top brains successfully cracked the German enigma codes, credited as greatly shortening the conflict. For years sh...

of silence on the one-week anniversary. we did not stop there. we teamed up with one of our good friends who gathered 3 million signatures on the newtown sympathy card, so now we have a band of americans of over 300 million people who agree that we must stop this violence. we helped to build the sandy hook website that launched one month after the tragedy. and we launched the social media around that website. and now, today, on the 3-month anniversary, we are announcing that we should harass and will harass, innovation to bring solutions to gun safety, mental health, and school safet...