A transport boss used his company credit card to pay for holidays, garden furniture and music records in a £100,000 fraud, a ...

Officers have centred in on a Northumberland town this evening amid an ongoing incident. A large Northumbria Police presence was witnessed around Ashington, with reports of armed officers and the ...

A town councillor who served the residents of Ashington for 16 years has died at the age of 80. Coun Victor Bridges was the Labour town councillor for the Hirst ward, and previously served on the ...

For the past couple of months, residents of HC-One’s Ashington Grange Care Home in Ashington, Northumberland, have been delightfully visited every day by a very friendly young cat. As the team noticed ...

A bike thief was tracked down after the young victim's mum made an appeal on a community Facebook page. James Snowdon had ...

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An 86-year-old pensioner has embarked on a 73-mile (117km) wheelchair challenge in support of his wife. Wheelchair-user Thomas Hedley, who lives at a care home in Ashington, Northumberland, has ...

Hundreds have gathered in the Northumberland town of Ashington today, Sunday August 17, to protest against what demonstrators are referring to as "illegal immigrants" in the area. The demonstration ...

Emergency services responded to reports of a disturbance at a house in Ashington, Northumberland, just before 7am today. Two ambulance crews, a specialist paramedic, and one HART crew (Hazardous Area ...

A former mining site is to be transformed into a nature hub, after housing plans backed by a multimillion-pound council loan fell through. Land at Potland Burn, near Ashington, Northumberland, has ...