Passionate People, Passionate Places: 12 best beaches in the North East
As part of our Passionate People, Passionate Places campaign, we look at some of the region s best coastal locations
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The centuries-old practice of aristocratic titles only being passed on to male descendants could be about to come to an end, with several high-society heiresses set to inherit the family land and titles.
Boris Johnson is understood to have ordered the issue of male primogeniture be looked into as part of plans to make Parliament more welcoming to women.
If the practice is abolished, it would mean for the first time first-born daughters would take on their father s peerage instead of younger sons, as seen in shows such as ITV s Downton Abbey.
Here, FEMAIL reveals the stunning socialites who could inherit the family pile, and titles, under the new proposals, including Princess Diana s niece Kitty Spencer and Lady Willa Franks.
North East byelaws overview
North East byelaws apply to anyone fishing with a rod and line for salmon, trout, coarse fish, eels, smelt and lamprey in all freshwater fisheries.
See the national rod fishing byelaws for rules that cover the whole country.
The North East is divided into 2 byelaw areas – Northumbria and Yorkshire.
Northumbria byelaw area
This area covers all waters within river catchments in England that flow into the North Sea northwards from Boulby Craggs, Staithes (near Whitby). It does not include the River Tweed or any of its tributaries.
Principal river catchments include the Tees, Wear, Tyne, Blyth, Wansbeck, Aln and Coquet.
£7.9m four-storey boutique hotel will overlook Alnwick Castle, Northumberland
Home to Duke of Northumberland Ralph Percy, 62, and wife Duchess Jane, 60
Hotel will boast 47 rooms and restaurant, bar, fitness centre and meeting rooms
Castle has featured as a backdrop for Blackadder, Robin Hood and Transformers
Harry Potter and the Philosopher s Stone and Downton Abbey also filmed there
Northumberland village named as one of the prettiest in the UK and Ireland by Conde Nast
It is praised for its vast expanse of golden sand that will make you wonder if you’ve landed it all to yourself
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