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Culture Bellingham
A Hexham Courant MP column argues that children in the North East should have greater access to national cultural experiences, while celebrating local heritage work in Stamfordham and reflecting on recent scenes in Dover and Portsmouth.
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The 74th Hexham Abbey Festival will run from September 23 to 27, bringing music, storytelling and film to Hexham Abbey and Forum Cinema.
Culture The Sele
Hexham has been ranked third among the North East’s best destinations for a quiet break, with LNER’s study highlighting the town’s historic sites, green spaces, independent businesses and access to Northumberland’s countryside.
Culture Priestpopple
Hexham is set to appear prominently in Channel 5 drama Forever Home after serving as one of the production’s main filming locations. The town’s scenery, architecture and hospitality businesses feature in the story behind the new series, which stars Kevin Whately, Douglas Henshall, Lewis Cope, Amy Nuttall and Denise Welch.
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The cast and crew of Channel 5 drama Forever Home, filmed partly in Hexham and Stocksfield, will gather for a North East premiere at Newcastle’s Tyneside Cinema on Friday, 4 September.
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Queen Elizabeth High School Youth Theatre will begin rehearsing Les Misérables in September, with auditions and performances scheduled for January 2027.
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The former Hexham Fire Station at Tyne Mills is due to be demolished next week to make way for a new Northumberland County Council depot, ending hopes that it could become an arts and storage centre for Sir Antony Gormley’s work.
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Hexham Abbey will host Threads Through Revelation, a free exhibition of 14 monumental embroidered panels by acclaimed textile artist Jacqui Parkinson, from 13 October to 22 November 2026.
Culture Priestpopple
A ChronicleLive retrospective looks back at Dontino’s, later known as Studio and affectionately called “Donnies”, tracing its history from a 1972 opening to its permanent closure in 2018 and the planned conversion of the Priestpopple building into flats.
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A new exhibition at Hexham Abbey will commemorate the 110th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme and tell the First World War stories of local families.
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Hexham Abbey will host a Glastonbury-style weekend featuring tribute performances, local musicians, expanded facilities and a Sunday screening at the Forum Cinema.
Culture Haydon Bridge
Hexham library will be designated a Northumberland “hub” library with 43 staffed hours each week, Saturday opening and on-site customer services under revised plans due to go to the council’s Cabinet for a final decision.
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Hexham Abbey has received a £138,088 National Lottery Heritage Fund grant to develop a major conservation project for its internationally renowned medieval panel paintings and other historic treasures.
