The QT

Sunday 19 May 2024
19/05/2024

Kielder

Animal tragic for the Borders raider

One of the perks of joining a local newspaper back in the 1990s was the chance to write about anything and everything. Sure, there were specialist senior reporters who regularly mopped up the front page exclusives on crime, politics, education and health. But that still left plenty more for the general news pool and, as …

Northumberland chicks spread their wings

The French Connection has delivered news of a Northumberland osprey in its wintering grounds in Senegal in Africa more than 3,000 miles from the Kielder Forest nest where the bird hatched. French ornithologist Jean-Marie Dupart was surveying ospreys in the Saloum Delta national park, which has many miles of unspoilt waterways. He came across and …

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