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Northumberland County Council will once again be backing Keep Britain Tidy’s Great British Spring Clean in 2026. Ten years since its inception, The Great British Spring Clean will take place from 13 to 29 March and will involve passionate individuals, councils, community groups and businesses ensuring the environment that we inhabit is kept clean and tidy for years to come. Last year, the campaign saw more than 462,000 bags of litter collected by volunteers up and down the

Residents in North Northumberland and the Scottish Borders are benefiting from improved public transport links, as two new cross border bus services launched in the area this week. The service, which is being delivered jointly with Scottish Borders Council, sees the two new services 34 and 34A replace the current 34 service (Duns – Coldstream) and 266 service (Wooler – Berwick) routes, bringing improved travel options for rural communities on both sides of the Border. The cha

Find out more top tips >> www.northumberland.gov.uk/waste Residents are being reminded of the importance of placing the right materials in their recycling bins – after it emerged that almost a quarter of material collected in the county is contaminated. Over 23% of all material collected from recycling bins at kerbside in Northumberland, is in fact contamination, including black bags, nappies, dog waste, food waste, textiles and clothing and electrical items. Just one conta

The penultimate station to be completed on the Northumberland Line has been officially opened. The first train rolled into the new station at Northumberland Park near Backworth in North Tyneside shortly after 8am on Sunday, February 22nd, opening up a new era of transport connectivity for the region. From Northumberland Park, customers will be able to travel to Newcastle in around 12 minutes or Ashington in 23 minutes. The station is also an interchange with the Tyne and We

Bedlington – the final station on the Northumberland Line – will open to passengers on Sunday, March 29th. It's the sixth station to be completed on the line, which since its opening in December 2024, has seen life-changing benefits not just in terms of travel, but also investment, educational and job opportunities, and enhanced public transport connectivity across the wider region. The line has seen well over a million passenger journeys and the final preparations are bei

Northumberland County Council is offering funding from a pot of £50,000 for projects aiming to help the environment. Up to £5,000 is available from the Council’s Environment and Climate Fund to support community initiatives such as reducing emissions, enhancing energy efficiency, educating and engaging the local community, and promoting waste reduction through reducing, reusing and recycling. Applications are now open at https://www.northumberlandnetzero.uk/apply/climate-fu

Northumberland residents can now recycle more items at the Council’s Household Waste Recovery Centre’s (HWRCs), operated by SUEZ recycling and recovery UK (SUEZ), in a bid to further increase recycling rates and make recycling everyday items like coffee pods easier for residents. Two new bins for coffee pod recycling have been introduced at each of the 12 sites – one for metal pods and one for plastic. The coffee remains from the bottom of the pods will be sent for composti

The County Council’s plans for a new community woodland are underway in Hadston and Red Row. During two community planting events, over 300 trees have been put in the ground with another 10,000 more being planted over the coming weeks by a local tree planting company. The Old School Field site in Hadston has seen a total of 80 volunteers from Hadston House Youth Club and members of the public plant tree species including Rowan, Downy Birch, Silver Birch, and Hornbeam. The

A new management plan is being put in place by the County Council to ensure that Northumberland’s designated stretch of coastline continues to be protected. The new plan, formally adopted by the Council, will cover The Northumberland Coast National Landscape, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty which runs along 64km of coastline from near Berwick-upon-Tweed to the Coquet Estuary. The Northumberland Coast National Landscape Management Plan will run until 2030 to ensure tha

Cutting-edge technology is being trialled to enable better and faster planning decisions in relation to flood risk in the county. A project is underway within the County Council after it was awarded over £725,000 in Government funding to carry out pioneering research into how AI can support faster and better planning decisions relating to flood risk on a national scale. The money came from the UK Government’s Regulatory Innovation Office (RIO) which funds regulators and loc

Fifty middle and secondary school pupils from across Northumberland came together to discuss climate change issues in a mini COP30 UN summit. The event, hosted by Northumberland County Council in the Council Chamber at County Hall, saw nine schools debate pressing issues such as deforestation, flooding and sustainable energy, sparking enthusiasm and respect for both worldwide and local challenges. Following the success of last year’s event, this year has been bigger and bet

Landmark moment as Northumberland County Council plants it’s millionth tree. A 2-metre-tall Oak tree has been planted at East Cramlington Local Nature Reserve by the Council’s Great Northumberland Forest team as part of National Tree Week. Since the introduction of the Great Northumberland Forest initiative in 2019, the Council has created 190ha (hectares) of tree coverage - that’s over 27 trees for every child under the age of five in Northumberland, helping to boost biod