Fishing has been central to life on Holy Island in Northumberland for centuries. Now, despite intense opposition, a proposed highly protected marine area – which would effectively kill off local ...

Geordie folk proggers Lindisfarne have announced a whopping 60-date UK tour running from April all the way through to the band's traditional end-of-tour seasonal show at Newcastle's O2 City Hall venue ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Monument To St Cuthbert Unveiled At Lindisfarne Monastery. A new monument to St Cuthbert - one of Britain’s holiest of saints - ...

Lindisfarne, better known as Holy Island, has featured in lots of TV show and numerous films over the years.

English Heritage to unveil new monument after original removed during Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries He was and remains “northern England’s most popular saint”, according to the Oxford ...

Not everyone who writes for Roker Report knows each other; in fact, many of us aren’t even in the North East. A couple of years ago, two of our “silver foxes” (Lars and Kelvin) met up on the beautiful ...

Lindisfarne Festival, the event which brings a close to festival season in the North East, is turning 10 in style this year. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Shields Gazette, you can get ...

ANDY beaches that stretch as far as the eye can see and castles that soar into the sky. That’s our most vivid memory of a weekend exploring Northumberland’s stunning coast. Visit castles that soar ...

The lamp of civilisation (languages, books, artistic tradition) was kept alive in monasteries such as Lindisfarne — Holy Island — in the dark centuries after the Romans had left Britain. The most ...