The leader of Northumberland County Council has expressed his sorrow at the news that HMS Northumberland will be scrapped. The Royal Navy frigate has a close association with the county ...

A Navy frigate affiliated to the county of Northumberland will be decommissioned in cost-saving measures announced by Defence Secretary John Healey. Along with other savings, Mr Healey said that ...

HMS Northumberland's sonar apparatus was struck while deployed underwater by a vessel it was tracking in the North Atlantic in late 2020. The collision was revealed by a Channel 5 documentary ...