The official first day of spring may not be until Monday 20 March, but for staff at wildlife charity Northumberland Wildlife Trust, it starts when the hundreds of frogs return to the pond at its…

Frogs have returned to the pond on a Gosforth nature reserve, which can only mean one thing - spring is just around the corner.

It takes more than a worldwide pandemic to stop the frogs returning to a Newcastle nature reserve.

Spring may not officially begin until 21 March, but at Northumberland Wildlife Trust, spring begins when the frogs return to the pond at its St Nicholas Park reserve in Gosforth, and, as they have…

February 2019 was the hottest since records began, and, with the warm weather came the first signs of spring - flowers, bird song and frogs and tadpoles in the region’s ponds.