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North Northumberland is also home to vibrant and hard-working communities that serve in their own way. Whether it is those in the fisheries of Amble and Seahouses, the farmers working the land across the constituency from Alwinton to Norham to keep us fed, or the servicemen and women at RAF Boulmer who protect the UK’s airspace, the people of North Northumberland rightly take great pride in the work of their hands, in the county that they call home, and in the contribution that they make to the common good. Nowhere is that more true than in the grand town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, with its historic walls and majestic bridges, one of which, the Royal Border bridge, serves the east coast main line. My particular favourite, though, is the Union chain bridge, for all that it represents for the Union between Scotland and England. We truly have cross-border lives in North Northumberland. Today we have a choice to build either walls or bridges across that border, and I choose to be a bridge builder.