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News for Medievalists (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
Aerial shots reveal Wall's secret history Tony Henderson 19 November 2008 The Newcastle Chronicle & Journal HERITAGE high-flyers have plotted over 2,700 previously unrecorded historic features in around Hadrian's Wall. English Heritage's aerial survey and investigation team has studied the Wall and its setting 15km either side of the structure. Team members have examined 30,500 aerial photographs taken...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
By Tony Henderson RECENT flooding has been part of the price for the way the landscape has been changed in the past, a North river scientist has said.
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ARLT Weblog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Roman treasures are coming home Oct 6 2008 by Tony Henderson, The Journal See also the BBC report FINDS from Northumberland which have been voted Britain’s greatest archaeological treasure are set to return to the county. Their homecoming is just one of the spin-offs from news today that the Vindolanda Roman [...]
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
By Tony Henderson THE success of a five-year environment- led regeneration programme in the North East was marked yesterday.
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
By Tony Henderson THE Duke of Northumberland will today lead the centenary celebrations of a building tucked away in a picturesque bay on the North East coast.
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
By Tony Henderson ARTIST Ettie Spencer spent yesterday encasing an entire farmhouse in black plastic and bailer twine.
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
By Tony Henderson ACAMPAIGN group has been set up to fight plans for what members fear will be a giant Tesco supermarket on a hospital site. The planning application for the Newcastle General Hospital land is to go before city councillors next month.
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 09/14/2008
By Tony Henderson AVISION of how a Newcastle city centre site will be turned into Europe's premier science quarter is about to take another step forward. A masterplan goes before the council's planning and transport strategy committee on September 25.
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
By Tony Henderson FROM volunteer to chairman - that's how David Brettell has risen in the wildlife world. David, 45, became a volunteer with Northumberland Wildlife Trust in 1995. Now he has been appointed as the new chairman of the trust, which has 13,000 members.
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
By Tony Henderson URGENT action is needed to avert the collapse of coral reefs, warn North scientists.
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
By Tony Henderson NEW gardener Violet Diver tabled a rotten exhibit in her inaugural flower and vegetable show.
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
By Tony Henderson FOR the last 30 years, a small team has been beavering away in remote corner of Northumberland, breeding salmon. The hatchery at Kielder has produced a staggering 10 million fish in that time.
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
By Tony Henderson RECRUITMENT began yesterday of an army of amateur nature recorders. It is hoped that thousands of people in the North East will contribute to a new website which will detail sightings of plants and animals.
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
THE latest step in a drive to protect the last areas of ancient woodland in the North East took place yesterday amid one of the best examples of the habitat in the region.