An HMP Northumberland baking project is working to stop the cycling of reoffending through teaching valuable skills and boosting the self esteem of prisoners.

Six men have been sentenced for attempting to operate a criminal enterprise whilst in prison. Some of the group were at the ...

The Met Office has issued an Amber warning which covers northern England for strong winds, heavy rain and snow ...

Mya Malthouse joined the County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Service after finishing her A-Level studies ...

A rapist who caught after his brave victim spoke out has died in prison.

Helen Spree, 61, was the chair of the independent monitoring board (IMB) at HMP Liverpool before her arrest for misconduct in public office and conspiring to convey prohibited articles into prison.

The solar farm in Seaham, County Durham, was approved by Durham County Council's planning committee and will be built on land which was once home to a coal mine ...

HMP Northumberland is a category C prison, holding 1348 male offenders, located near the village of Acklington in Northumberland. Sodexo took over the operational management of the prison in 2013.

The 18-year-old, care of Northumberland Road, Bristol, admitted the September 16 assault on a prison officer at HMP Werrington Young Offenders' Institution when he appeared at North Staffordshire ...

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During the investigation it was revealed that he had been working with two other prisoners, Gladstone Allen, 33 and Scott Wilson, 35 to brings drugs into both HMP Northumberland and HMP Durham. Drugs ...

Farmers in Northumberland have staged a demonstration against controversial plans for an agricultural inheritance tax. A tractor rally made its way through Morpeth towards County Hall, where ...