Northumberland Gazette, February 16th
Big front pager in the Gazette is the fire that swept through one of Alnwick's oldest buildings destroying the IT business occupying it.
Another supermarket has joined the frenzied dash for Alnwick as Lidl are reported to be in the market to open a store in Alnwick, on the back of the revelations last week in the Gazette that Sainsbury's were close to putting in an application.
The first item of Amble news - a pupil has been expelled from Coquet High School for smoking cannabis.
A retired gentleman in Felton is being hailed a hero for spending 4 hours of his own time picking up litter around the village - he's reportedly happy doing it, but it's a sad state of affairs that he needs to.
Next item of Amble news is that there are 'dogbombs' (my words not the Gazette's) all over the place, and the town council is urging anyone seeing any being deposited and not cleaned away to call the district council to report it.
Witness appeal following an assault - in Amble, an attempted burglary at Warkworth Castle shop, a bus window smashed following a bottle-throwing incident, a car window smashed in Amble by the application of a brick.
Oh, and crime in Alnwick & Amble is down by 21% this year.
A former postmaster from Lucker is facing 12 months porridge after £13k went missing from the Post Office he formerly ran - it's a heck of a lot of stamps!
A mother filmed her own 14-year-old son attacking her for apparently not taking him to the pub as arranged, the result - a 12-month conditional discharge.
The Aln Valley Railway Trust is one step closer to re-opening the line between Alnwick & Alnmouth, initially as far as Lionheart Ind. Est. (neatly avoiding the need to build an expensive crossing of the A1) with the possibility of a park and ride facility in future, although to whence the ride would apply is not clear - the idea of P&R to downtown Alnwick is probably a bit far-fetched though.
In an item entitled "Hot Property" the Gazette reports that the radiators were stolen from a showhome on a development in Amble and further down the column - a tax disc was stolen from a vehicle also in Amble.
In another train-related item, apparently it's full steam ahead for a road train from Alnwick Garden via the castle to the town centre. A "half-hour historical trip" which will include a commentary on the history of Alnwick and places of interest. It's hoped that it'll relieve parking problems in Alnwick, although at £2 per adult, plus parking charges at the Alnwick Garden, it seems a little optimistic to the Paper Boy.
On the letters page, there's a follow-up to last weeks league table of recycling in Alnwick & district.... Apparently the league tables are compiled automatically by having all the bins chipped so they know which houses are recycling how much, and the letter author's garden was invaded by two uninvited 'officials' from the council checking up the tag, because it hadn't been registered by the vehicle. The writer is concerned on three points - firstly that the council officials marched in uninvited and unannounced, secondly that the league tables cannot be relied on because the bins didn't register, thirdly upon the inception of the plan they were told that the bins were not individually identifiable although the officials had a list of addresses and non-registering bins and that it might be a short step from "your bin isn't registering" to "you're not recycling enough" (as the Paper Boy has mentioned previously - measuring recycling volume in isolation is no measure of one's green credentials - reuse or reduce, then recycle).
A Glanton man was banned from driving, for driving whilst disqualified - apparently the Police were alerted to the vehicle which was in a poor state of repair, and noticed that it was displaying an excise licence (assume they meant "it wasn't"). The defendant apparently remarked to the court that he "took a chance" and was now "here to take the punishment". The sentence handed down 100 hours community service, plus an additional 12 months ban on top of the ban he already had and £55 costs.
New plans for 20 houses in Powburn have once again been rejected bythe local parish council - the original plan was for 27 - on the grounds of increased traffic on the main road, and pressure on the local sewerage system, and a lack of affordable housing in the plan. Plans go before the district council in late March.
Another supermarket has joined the frenzied dash for Alnwick as Lidl are reported to be in the market to open a store in Alnwick, on the back of the revelations last week in the Gazette that Sainsbury's were close to putting in an application.
The first item of Amble news - a pupil has been expelled from Coquet High School for smoking cannabis.
A retired gentleman in Felton is being hailed a hero for spending 4 hours of his own time picking up litter around the village - he's reportedly happy doing it, but it's a sad state of affairs that he needs to.
Next item of Amble news is that there are 'dogbombs' (my words not the Gazette's) all over the place, and the town council is urging anyone seeing any being deposited and not cleaned away to call the district council to report it.
Witness appeal following an assault - in Amble, an attempted burglary at Warkworth Castle shop, a bus window smashed following a bottle-throwing incident, a car window smashed in Amble by the application of a brick.
Oh, and crime in Alnwick & Amble is down by 21% this year.
A former postmaster from Lucker is facing 12 months porridge after £13k went missing from the Post Office he formerly ran - it's a heck of a lot of stamps!
A mother filmed her own 14-year-old son attacking her for apparently not taking him to the pub as arranged, the result - a 12-month conditional discharge.
The Aln Valley Railway Trust is one step closer to re-opening the line between Alnwick & Alnmouth, initially as far as Lionheart Ind. Est. (neatly avoiding the need to build an expensive crossing of the A1) with the possibility of a park and ride facility in future, although to whence the ride would apply is not clear - the idea of P&R to downtown Alnwick is probably a bit far-fetched though.
In an item entitled "Hot Property" the Gazette reports that the radiators were stolen from a showhome on a development in Amble and further down the column - a tax disc was stolen from a vehicle also in Amble.
In another train-related item, apparently it's full steam ahead for a road train from Alnwick Garden via the castle to the town centre. A "half-hour historical trip" which will include a commentary on the history of Alnwick and places of interest. It's hoped that it'll relieve parking problems in Alnwick, although at £2 per adult, plus parking charges at the Alnwick Garden, it seems a little optimistic to the Paper Boy.
On the letters page, there's a follow-up to last weeks league table of recycling in Alnwick & district.... Apparently the league tables are compiled automatically by having all the bins chipped so they know which houses are recycling how much, and the letter author's garden was invaded by two uninvited 'officials' from the council checking up the tag, because it hadn't been registered by the vehicle. The writer is concerned on three points - firstly that the council officials marched in uninvited and unannounced, secondly that the league tables cannot be relied on because the bins didn't register, thirdly upon the inception of the plan they were told that the bins were not individually identifiable although the officials had a list of addresses and non-registering bins and that it might be a short step from "your bin isn't registering" to "you're not recycling enough" (as the Paper Boy has mentioned previously - measuring recycling volume in isolation is no measure of one's green credentials - reuse or reduce, then recycle).
A Glanton man was banned from driving, for driving whilst disqualified - apparently the Police were alerted to the vehicle which was in a poor state of repair, and noticed that it was displaying an excise licence (assume they meant "it wasn't"). The defendant apparently remarked to the court that he "took a chance" and was now "here to take the punishment". The sentence handed down 100 hours community service, plus an additional 12 months ban on top of the ban he already had and £55 costs.
New plans for 20 houses in Powburn have once again been rejected bythe local parish council - the original plan was for 27 - on the grounds of increased traffic on the main road, and pressure on the local sewerage system, and a lack of affordable housing in the plan. Plans go before the district council in late March.
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