Rothbury

Rothbury, Northumberland, Friday the 9th of July, 2010, just after 7:00 in the evening.

A week-long manhunt was finally coming to an end.

Beside the River Coquet, police had found Raoul Moat.

There was nowhere left to run.

But then, as police attempted to persuade an armed murderer to surrender, something happened that would make an already extraordinary story almost surreal.

Former England footballer Paul Gascoigne arrived in Rothbury.

Gazza believed he could help.

He'd bought supplies: food, lager, a mobile phone, and according to accounts that would become part of British folklore, a fishing rod.

The environmentalist Ben Goldsmith hails the burgeoning mosaic of increasingly wild estates in Northumberland as Britain's Yellowstone.

Close to Emble Hope, in the north of Northumberland, is Rothbury, the largest estate to come on the market for 30 years, which the Wildlife Trust are seeking to buy with an unprecedented £30 million fundraising appeal that's nearing its target.

Other private estates in the area, including the 12,000-acre College Valley and 4,000-acre Hepple Wilds, are accelerating nature reforestation, while the vast 148,000-acre Kilder Forest is increasingly managed by Forestry England for biodiversity.

That's a wrap for this week's edition of Good News for Lefties and the World.

Police appealed to the gunman to turn himself in, but Moat remained on the loose, armed, and extremely dangerous.

On the 6th of July, the black Lexus Moat had used when he shot P.C. Rathband was found abandoned in the small town of Rothbury, 30 miles north of Newcastle.

Police set up a two-mile exclusion zone and urged residents to stay indoors.

The hunt suddenly started to focus on a very pretty market town called Rothbury, right on the edge of the Northumberland National Park, a beautiful little town on the Cocut River, surrounded by glorious but pretty remote countryside that presumably Mote knew pretty well and felt that he could steer clear of the police around there and whatever game he had in mind, whatever he was doing to taunt the police at the time or to evade the police, he felt it was his best bet.

There was still no sign of Mote, but police had found an abandoned campsite in Rothbury and a dictaphone with recordings of Mote complaining how unhappy he was with the media reports about his private life.

He also made threats to the general public unless the stories stopped.

So he's listening to what's going on in the media.

The next thing we hear is that the police have arrested two men, Ness and a one, who They now tell us they believe were friends and aiders and abettors of the runaway man, Raoul Moat.

Police appealed to the gunman to turn himself in, but Moat remained on the loose, armed, and extremely dangerous.

on the 6th of July, the black Lexus Mote had used when he shot P.C. Rathband was found abandoned in the small town of Rothbury, 30 miles north of Newcastle.

Police set up a two-mile exclusion zone and urged residents to stay indoors.

The hunt suddenly started to focus on a very pretty market town called Rothbury, right on the edge of the Northumberland National Park, a beautiful little town on the Coquit River, surrounded by glorious but pretty remote countryside that presumably Mote knew pretty well and felt that he could steer clear of the police around there and whatever game he had in mind, whatever he was doing to taunt the police at the time or to evade the police, he felt it was his best bet.

there was still no sign of Mote, but police had found an abandoned campsite in Rothbury and a dictaphone with recordings of Mote complaining how unhappy he was with the media reports about his private life.

He also made threats to the general public unless the stories stopped.

So he's listening to what's going on in the media.

The next thing we hear is that the police have arrested two men, Ness and a one, who They now tell us they believe were friends and aiders and abettors of the runaway man, Raoul Moat.

As I see it, the role of Transport for England would be to create transport interchanges at each of the regional stations that we retain along the line.

In the case of Acclington, acting as the hub for the villages up the River Coquette to Rothbury and down to Amble and Warkworth.

You see here, we've got what we're calling the N2 service that would run down towards the coast via Acclington Interchange, which would be expanding this station out to become an interchange, and then down to the coast to Amble, essentially bringing in a much wider catchment to that railway station.

So as a railway, we get greater revenue, but also fundamentally the public transport system works far better when it is totally integrated.

Police appealed to the gunman to turn himself in, but Moat remained on the loose, armed and extremely dangerous.

On the 6th of July, the black Lexus Moat had used when he shot P.C. Rathband was found abandoned in the small town of Rothbury, 30 miles north of Newcastle.

Police set up a two-mile exclusion zone and urged residents to stay indoors.

The hunt suddenly started to focus on a very pretty market town called Rothbury, right on the edge of the Northumberland National Park, a beautiful little town on the Coquit River, surrounded by glorious but pretty remote countryside that presumably Mote knew pretty well and felt that he could steer clear of the police around there, and whatever game he had in mind, whatever he was doing to taunt the police at the time or to evade the police, he felt it was his best bet.

There was still no sign of Mote, but police had found an abandoned campsite in Rothbury and a dictaphone with recordings of Mote complaining how unhappy he was with the media reports about his private life.

He also made threats to the general public unless the stories stopped.

So he's listening to what's going on in the media.

The next thing we hear is that the police have arrested two men, Ness and a one, who They now tell us they believe were friends and aiders and abettors of the runaway man, Raoul Moat.

Annick, Workworth Castle, Langley and Prudhoe in Northumberland.

Rothbury, Lordship on Cockett, a seven miles above Annick, where is such a town as Corbridge.

Corbridge Lordship, where appear great tokens of buildings by square stones.

Chatton Lordship upon Till, a mile from Chillingham.

Alnwick, Warkworth Castle, Langley and Prudhoe in Northumberland.

Rothbury, lordship on Cockett, a seven miles above Alnwick, where is such a town as Corbridge.

Corbridge lordship, where appear great tokens of buildings by square stones.

Chatton lordship upon Till, a mile from Chillingham.

Annick, Workworth Castle, Langley and Prudhoe in Northumberland.

Rothbury, Lordship on Cockett, a seven miles above Annick, where is such a town as Corbridge.

Corbridge Lordship, where appear great tokens of buildings by square stones.

Chatton Lordship upon Till, a mile from Chillingham.

Within a mile of Penrith but in Westmorland is a ruin as some suppose of a castle within a flight shot of Loda and as much of Eamont Water standing almost as a mediamnis betwixt them.

The ruines of some called the Round Table and of some Arthur's Castle a mile lower meeteth Loda and Emet at Burgham Castle Market towns in Durhamshire Dunholme, Ayclland, Witchingham, the quick market of Darlington standing betwixt Tees and Wear, Stockton-upon-Tees, Walsingham-upon-Wear almost in the middle way betwixt Stanhope and Ayclland, Hartlepool Castles in Durhamshire Dunholme, Ayclland, Prudhoe-upon-Tyne, Stockton-upon-Tees, Barnard's Castle, Lumley Castle not far from Chester Abbeys and Priories in Durhamshire Dunholme upon Wear river, Finklehoe upon Wear, a cell of thirteen monks longing to Durham, Wearmouth, Jarrow There was a priory not far from Darlington as I remember about Tees river The limits of Durhamshire Tees river, Tyne river until he receiveth Derwentwater Earl of Northumbro, Lord of the honours of Cockermouth and Petworth, Lord Percy, Lucy, Lord Poynings, Fitzpayne, Bryan Cockermouth came by Lucy Petworth by gift of a king, Henry the First Fitzpayne and Bryan's lands came to Poynings and by Poyning heir general all three to Percy The Earl of Northumber, castles and manors Cockermouth in Cumberland, a seven hundred lee by year Alnwick, Warkworth Castle, Langley and Prudhoe in Northumberland Rothbury, lordship on Cockett, a seven miles above Alnwick, where is such a town as Corbridge Corbridge lordship, where appear great tokens of buildings by square stones Chatton lordship upon Till, a mile from Chillingham In Yorkshire Seamer, Hunmanby, near Seamer Pocklington market at two miles from Seamer Leconfield, two miles from Beverley Wressle Castle, two miles from Howden market, where the Bishop of Durham hath a fair palace Caton where is a park as is almost of the lordships afore rehearsed Spofford, a great village at two miles from Otley upon Aire river Topcliffe on Swale, a goodly manor house in a park Tadcaster and Healey Lindley by Spofford where Sir Thomas Johnson now is heir He had in Kent a five hundred mark of Poynings lands In South Sax Poynings lordship Petworth Torry Bryan in Somersetshire that Master Kitson bought The Lord Marquis of Exeter had much of his lands in Devonshire He had castles in Wales and was there a great lord marcher Peradventure, Payne Castle by Wye was his, for he bare the name of the Lord Fitzpayne He had some land in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire He had Tallaghtarn, a castle about the mouth of Tay coming from Caermeddin From Caerleul to Burgh on the sands, six miles From Burgh to Workington, twelve miles From Workington to St.

Bees, fourteen From St.

Bees to Furness by the sea coast, fourteen miles From Furness to Lancaster, twelve miles From Lancaster to Preston, twenty miles Esk flu limes et Scottiae et Angliae Lytherde flu it in Escam At Motel Lythel was a moated place of a gentleman called Sir Walter Sealeby the which was killed there and the place destroyed in King Edward the Third when the Scots went to Durham and their king was take by Copland at Durham on a hill thereby where was many Scots buried Bowness is at the point or plain of the river of Eden where is a little poor steeple as a fortlet for a brunt and it is on the hither side of the river of Eden about at eight miles from Caerleul About this Bowness is part of the Pict's wall evidently remaining and it may be supposed that it is called Bowness as who should say the wall ye or point or end Burgh in the sand standeth a mile off from the hither bank of Eden It is a village by the which remain the ruins of a great place now clean desolated where King Edward the First died Burgh standeth from Bowness three miles and four miles or five from Caerleul Burgh longed sometimes to the Morvilles Here was a fifteen years ago the Lord Maxwell sore wounded many slain and drowned in Eden [missing words] At Drumburg the Lord Dacre's father builded upon old ruins a pretty pile for defence of the country Drumburg is almost in the midway betwixt Bowness and Burgh The stones of the Pict's wall were pulled down to build on Burgh for the wall is very near it Netherby is a seven miles north from Caerleul and Esk river runneth on the north side of it There hath been marvellous buildings as appear by ruinous walls and men alive have seen rings and staples in the walls as it had been stays or holes for ships On the one side of it is the bateable ground so that it is as a limes Angliae et Scottiae The ruins be now a three miles at the least from the flowing water of Solway sands The grass groweth now on the ruins of the walls Rockcliffe a pretty pile or castle of the Lord Dacre's over Eden on the farther right about a four mile from Caerleul The town of Cockermouth standeth on the river of Cocker the which thwarteth over the town and Cocker runneth in Derwent hard at the point of the castle of Cockermouth The river of Dargwent after that he cometh to a straight course casteth out an army of his abundant water that maketh a pool or loch called Ooze and afterwards straighteth and at the last cometh into Dargwent and so maketh an isle.