These ewes must have been grateful to lose their hot and heavy coats when Stephen Waddington found a pair of shepherds giving the sheep an annual trim at Holystone last week.
Beautiful and beautifully appointed Brinkburn Priory in Northumberland will form the backdrop for a special preview performance as part of the annual classical music festival which starts tomorrow.
The acclaimed Gabrieli Consort & Players will be giving music-lovers a taster there next weekend of its production of Haydn's The Creation, ahead of its performance at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall the following week.
Controversial plans to fell protected trees in a Northumberland village are to be determined tonight.
Ian Black, of The Wynd in Amble, has applied to Northumberland County Council for permission to fell 32 trees and prune others - all subject to a Tree Preservation Under - on land at Studley Drive in Swarland.
The application also proposes a replanting scheme for the whole site involving 46 trees and came about after Mr Black removed three without permission. Nine residents at Swarland have objected to his application saying the loss of the trees will impact on the character and visual amenity of the area.
The council's North area planning committee is to determine the application tomorrow night.
More than 2,000 female council workers in Northumberland are set for payouts after agreement was finally reached to settle a long-running, £50m equal pay claim.
Women county council employees such as cleaners, kitchen assistants and carers are in line for the compensation payments as a result of being underpaid for years in comparison to male colleagues who earned bonuses.
Northumberland County Council is the last local authority in the North East to settle its equal pay dispute with the GMB and Unison - and defended its case as far as an Employment Tribunal scheduled for earlier this month.
Farmers in north Northumberland and the Borders have been picking up tips on using their water effectively to guard against potential supply problems that are expected in the future.
The combined effects of climate change, rising demand for water, increased regulation and the possibility of droughts are all factors that are expected to have an impact on agriculture in years to come.
The UK's top irrigation specialists met invited farmers last Friday at an event focusing on practical irrigation, which looked at efficient water management, coping with climate change and how to successfully negotiate future water supply contracts.
A new phase of work has started to protect Rothbury from flooding.
Work by Environment Agency contractors on the Coplish Burn in Rothbury over the next three weeks will include replacing an old 30-metre culvert with new piping plus a reinforced box culvert at Lindsay House, Town Foot. The work is funded by the Northumbria Regional Flood Defence Committee.
Phase one was completed last year and included strengthening part of the culvert, from the inlet near Providence Place to Brewery Lane, and from Lee Close to the outfall into the Coquet at Riverside.
The Duke of Northumberland has given in to people power, by withdrawing controversial plans.
His development arm Northumberland Estates had submitted plans to Northumberland County Council to build three homes, three detached garages and a link road on land at Addycombe in Rothbury. The application yielded 18 letters of objection from residents and also opposition from Rothbury Parish Council.
The site is close to where the estates is halfway through building around 100 homes.
Independent rural petrol stations are facing an increasing battle just to survive, as they struggle to compete with their bigger rivals.
Many of the stations also act as convenience stores in their local communities, but dozens have closed over the last few years, in yet another blow to the rural economy.
Gordon Moore, pictured, who owns the Border Reiver Station in Knowesgate, Northumberland, said the margin on fuel from his station is tiny.
Flickr photographer 'Venn Diagram' took this amazing photograph on Simonside during a guided walk as part of the Rothbury & Coquetdale Midsummer Walking Festival, and added it to the Your Place Northumberland Flickr group.
Stories about a rarely-seen goat that lives on the mountain proved true when the group reached the summit...
Much more needs to be done to adequately protect communities in Northumberland from the threat of future flooding, a Northumberland MP claimed yesterday.
Berwick Lib Dem MP Sir Alan Beith warned Government ministers that there is a lot of work to do if towns and villages such as Morpeth and Rothbury are to feel safe following the devastating flooding which hit them last September.
His comments came on the day of the Government's long-awaited response to Sir Michael Pitt's review of the 2007 summer floods, which caused havoc in much of England.
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