Property gallery: Whalton house was home from the first view

Newly-weds Fiona Ellis and Cinzia Hardy will be starting married life in a barn conversion in the Northumbrian countryside near Hartburn, but will be sad to say goodbye to their current home, just six miles down the road in Whalton. They have

Improving beef performance

Farming at Ogle Dene Farm, Whalton, near Morpeth, most of the progeny from his 135 Limousin and Charolais suckler cows are finished on-farm, generally selling to Linden Foods

The story of lightship captain John Whalton from Key West

The first man assigned to captain the Caesar was John Whalton of Key West. He was stationed aboard lightships marking Carysfort Reef for just over a dozen years, but it was while still stationed aboard the Caesar, on December 19, 1827, that Ca