The past few weeks have seen the puffins settling back into their Farne Island burrows off the Northumberland coast as they prepare for breeding season. Photographer Wil Cheung was eager to set foot back on Inner Farne after bird flu forced two years of having to capture its wonderful wildlife from the water. “It’s been …
At four miles long and a 15-minute journey time, it was hardly full steam ahead on what was one of Northumberland’s smallest railway lines. The link from Seahouses to North Sunderland and then Chathill on the main line of the North Eastern Railway between Morpeth and Berwick, was always cash-strapped. The privately-financed track opened in …
The line in the hymn and anthem Jerusalem, celebrating England’s green and pleasant land, could apply to much of Northumberland. But there is one shade of lurid green which is not so welcome and is causing serious problems for one of the most valued areas of the county’s landscape. Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve (NNR) covers …
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