Shocking new figures have revealed that there are more than 2,000 homes in Northumberland standing empty.
Northumberland County Council's data showed that there were a total of 2,176 "long term empty" (LTE) homes in the county - those that have stood vacant for more than six months.
Furthermore, 892 of those have been empty for two years or more, while one councillor said she knew of a house that had been unoccupied for more than four decades.
