2023 has ended, and 2024 beckons. Whilst you may be busy creating new resolutions for the year to come, let’s look back at 2023 by rounding up some of the prominent moments of the year. Local Top Moments The Sycamore Gap Felling The iconic tree was sadly felled in September 2023, and we still don’t know why. The tree was a signature of Northumberland, with… Read More »Look back at 2023
It’s a while since I’ve written for Tyne Valley Express about the Tyne Valley, so before putting words to pc, I went to seek guidance from NWT’s long serving Vice President and former RSPB Northern Director, Ian Armstrong, who is a long term Tyne Valley resident and has observed the landscape and wildlife here for decades. I was seeking oversight and insight of where to… Read More »Wild Tyne Tales
Many blame Brexit for the current economic malaise the U.K. finds itself in and that if we elect a new party, Labour, to power that they will be able to turn things around. Unfortunately, things are not as simple and my point here is not to pick a party over another but to look at what, in my opinion, are the root causes the current… Read More »Economic Woes
