The leader of Northumberland County Council says the Conservatives have already made "great strides" in their first 100 days in control of the authority.

And councillor Peter Jackson, says it is only the beginning as more positive changes are set to continue for everybody across Northumberland.

Since becoming the largest party on the council following May's elections, the Conservatives have already fulfilled several manifesto promises, including halting Labour plans to relocate County Hall from Morpeth to Ashington at a cost of £80m, creating five area councils across the county and delivering on plans to improve roads through the £100m repair programme.

Other successes including recalling Labour's flawed housing plan for 26,000 new homes, reviewing the activities of Arch, creating a business plan for Active Northumberland, enacting senior management changes, replanting illegally felled trees at County Hall and carrying out enhanced verge cutting and landscaping.

Cllr Jackson said: "We made key promises during the election campaign and we have already delivered on some of them in our first 100 days in charge.

"It's clear we are making great strides towards our goals of making Northumberland a better place for people to live and work and a more attractive place for the hundreds of thousands of tourists who come to our wonderful county each year.

"But we are far from complacent and know there is more we need to do to achieve all of our aims.

"We will continue to keep working hard as Conservatives and as councillors and to make sure we can build on our positive beginnings throughout our time in office.

"There is a long way to go to fulfil all our manifesto pledges, but we are committed to ensure we meet them all as soon as possible."