Tributes paid to Dipton Mill pub landlord and brewery founder Geoff Brooker

Tributes have been paid to a popular Northumberland pub landlord and brewer who has died. Geoff Brooker, 67, ran the Dipton Mill Inn with wife Janet for more than 20 years, and founded the award winning Hexhamshire Brewery. “It

Pint to pint: Dipton Mill Inn, Northumberland

Draw the definitive English country pub and it would look like the Dipton Mill Inn, near Hexham in Northumberland. Describe a coaching inn interior and it would be low-ceilinged and solid-beamed with five ales on the bar and a tinkling log fir

Newcastle Falcons among the winners in our North East rugby awards

A windy Friday night in Newport is no place for the fainthearted, but Newcastle Falcons