Northumbria police arrested a protestor while Palestine Action supporters were awaiting the release of Actionists detained ...

and forged a new kingdom – Northumbria. So great was Oswui's power that both the Picts and the Gaels recognised his overlordship. Only after the Picts defeated the Angles at Dun Nechtain ...

The Angles were Germanic invaders who came from the Danish-German border and conquered most of Roman Britannia, giving the country its later name, England (Angle land), and dividing it up into seven ...

Known as 'Picti' by the Romans, meaning 'Painted Ones' in Latin, these northern tribes constituted the largest kingdom in Dark Age Scotland. They repelled the conquests of both Romans and Angles, ...

The Kingdom of the Angles under King Oswui had ... their Northumbrian puppet king. The new King of Northumbria, Ecgfrith, wasted no time in wreaking revenge on the Picts. The Picts were massacred ...

The former leader of Northumberland County Council has hit out at successive Government's for failing to dual the A1 in the county.

Sunny with a high of 43 °F (6.1 °C). Winds from W to WSW at 8 to 11 mph (12.9 to 17.7 kph). Night - Cloudy with a 56% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 6 to 8 mph (9.7 to 12.9 kph). The ...