Blogs and Latest News
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We LOVE Northumberland
CRAG Little Shore has been shortlisted for the Northumberland County Council LOVE Northumberland awards for achieving bathing water designation for Little Shore. We have described in previous blogs the huge effort put in by our CRAG Little Shore volunteers to gather the support and the evidence necessary for the successful application. And we have described…
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Coquet Tales
The Big Splash wasn’t the only event at the Puffin Festival (as I’m sure many of you already know), it was also where the latest of book of poems by friend of CRAG Ali Rowland was launched. Ali writes, “At last, after some time assembling this, I’m able to announce the publication of ‘Coquet Tales:…
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The Big Splash
After all the hard work, our volunteers were able to celebrate with many other people who like using Little Shore. The Big Splash event at Amble’s Puffin Festival was a perfect time to celebrate the achievement of bathing water designation for Little Shore. CRAG joined with the Swimblers and Fenwick Ridley, Team GB open water…
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Little Shore – we’ve done it!
Little Shore – we’ve done it. On 15 May 2026, Little Shore received bathing water designation from DEFRA (The Ambler: https://www.theambler.co.uk/2026/05/15/now-we-can-celebrate-ambles-little-shore-awarded-bathing-water-status/). This is thanks to all the hard work of the volunteers from the CRAG Little Shore group. Bathing water designation means that the Environment Agency is legally required to monitor the quality of the…
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CRAG in the Community – Riverfly Sampling
CRAGs Rothbury WI and Rothbury CAN water quality groups were out on a fine morning in May, riverfly sampling with the Dr Thomlinson C of E Middle School Biodiversity Group. The event marked the launch of CRAG’s riverfly kick sampling project, to collect data on riverfly numbers at different sites along the Coquet. Riverfly kick…