Recently by Richard Fletcher

Police want help to catch a criminal who jumped into a car compound in Tweedmouth and severely damaged several vehicles.

Someone entered the compound at the Tweedmouth service station and extensively damaged vehicles parked there.

It happened between 12.20-1.20pm on Sunday, February 7. The offender is white, 16-18 years old, of average build and around 5ft10in-6ft tall. He was wearing a black woollen hat and dark coloured tracksuit bottoms and top. He would have been injured and bleeding.

On the hunt for Tweedmouth burglars

Posted by Richard Fletcher on Mar 4, 10 12:56 PM in News

Police in Berwick want the public's help to track down burglars in Tweedmouth.

Sometime between 11.30pm on Friday, February 12, and 1.30am on Saturday, February 13, thieves broke into a house in Etal Way, Tweedmouth, and stole a pink Dell laptop computer, a red Nintendo games console, a satnav device, a black metal detector, JVC camcorder and a Samsung mobile phone.

DC Keith Turnbull from Berwick CID said: "I'd appeal for anyone with any information about this break-in to contact police as soon as possible.

The Maltings Theatre in Berwick is offering entry to a top show for just £1 after being left with a plethora of tickets.

Artistic director Miles Gregory said he has been left scratching his head over why there are still lots of tickets to Colin Hoult's comedy show 'The Carnival of Monsters', which is on this Saturday night (February 27).

He said: "When I booked this show last year, I knew it was going to be a really funny show.

Berwick people are invited to attend a community forum to identify and address local problems and concerns.

The forum is designed to engage with communities and encouraging everyone who lives and works in Berwick to offer their ideas and solutions to local problems, and work together to address them.

The forum will hopefully make the problems known to local government.

An attacker has been jailed for two and a half years after an assault outside a Berwick pub.

Edward Paul Allan, 30, of Grosvenor Court, Chapel Park, Newcastle, appeared at Newcastle Crown Court yesterday and pleaded guilty to GBH and assault.

Officers in Berwick received a report of a fight outside the Hen and Chickens Hotel in August and when they responded they found that Allan had assaulted two men who had tried to intervene in a dispute between Allan and a woman.

Have your say on fire stations

Posted by Richard Fletcher on Jun 19, 09 11:33 AM in What’s On

People in three Northumberland towns can have their say about proposed new fire stations.

Plans to build new stations on existing sites at Alnwick and Berwick have been proposed and a station could also be built on a new site in Hexham to replace the current station, which sits in a floodplain.

The formal consultation began on June 10 and will run until September 10. Information leaflets, including a map of the proposed site, will be delivered to households and businesses in the catchment area of Hexham Fire Station.

Now is the time to have your say about a proposed wind turbine before a planning application is put in next month.

The Berwick Community Wind Turbine team has been working to develop a wind turbine close to the Ramparts Business Park for the last two years.

Following a number of public events and newspaper stories. the project is now entering the last stage of public consultation. The team is now preparing a full planning application to be submitted in July.

Family rescued from tide at Holy Island

Posted by Richard Fletcher on Jun 10, 09 05:58 PM in News

A couple and their grandchildren were rescued by a Northumberland lifeboat after trying to cross to Holy Island.

The group of four got cut off and stranded by the tide after trying to cross the causeway contrary to the displayed safe crossing times.

As the water came in they abandoned their car and made their way into the refuge box, where they called for help in the incident on Tuesday afternoon.

In a copy of Liverpool's win in the 2005 Champions League final, Shilbottle won the Bilclough Cup final in a high-scoring game with Alnmouth despite being 3-0 down at half time.

But Shilbottle went one better by actually winning the game 4-3 in extra time.

Mathew Kreczar had given Alnmouth a sixth minute lead and with further goals from Joe Moscrop and James Swordy after 40 and 44 minutes Alnmouth were in control at half time.

Berwick Town edged past hosts Bedlington Terrier Reserves 2-1 to reach the final of the Sanderson Cup.

During a close fought game Michael Haley gave the home team a half time lead, which they held until the 80th minute when Stuart Payne scored an equaliser for Berwick.

Berwick then took the tie when they were awarded a disputed penalty which was converted by Scott Pithe.

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