Work starts on Northumberland summer surface dressing schemes

Work has begun on Northumberland County Council’s summer surface dressing programme. A total of 19 sites will be repaired and improved in the county’s annual ‘surface dressing’ initiative, covering an area of 443,290 square metres.  This repair method is used where the existing road surface has worn over a period of several years. This can […]

A1 dualling scheme debate intensifies after deaths

Calls for safety improvements on the A1 in Northumberland have escalated after five people died in two major incidents just nine days apart. Campaigners have said the current traffic situation on the key route is “the worst it has ever been”, says the BBC. The government has pledged to improve safety at certain junctions in […]

Northumberland residents call for A1 dualling due to summer traffic

Residents of villages near the A1 in Northumberland have renewed calls for it to be dualled after bank holiday traffic led to major delays. Drivers were stuck in long queues from where the road becomes a single carriageway in Northumberland. Trudy Long, owner of Carr’s Corner village shop in Longframlington, said she knows not to […]