News
Charity in urgent appeal for drivers
Due to an increased demand for its service, Bell View is looking for drivers who can spare one to two hours per week transporting older people.
Wedding artefacts offer slice of history
Tiny cake cards which date back to as far as the early 20th century and offer an insight into family history have been found in the build-up to an exhibition of vintage wedding dresses and Christening gowns.
Pupils have eye for design
Pupils from a north Northumberland village school got in touch with their creative sides to design an advert for a mobile pottery painting studio.
Residents warned of online car-sale scam
Residents should be cautious when they buy on line following an investigation into a complicated car sales e-scam warns Northumberland County Council’s public protection service.
Upgrades in line for Embleton service
A coastal village is set to get a new and improved Post Office service as modernisation works are taking place.
Book signing on Holy Island
Author Kate Tristram will be at Lindisfarne Priory on Holy Island next week to sign her book, The Story of Holy Island. It tells the story of the island and its people from its misty beginnings as part of the mainland in the stone age to the present day.
Sport
Around the clubs
Alnmouth, Alnwick, Belford, Dunstanburgh, Percy Wood, Seahouses, Warkworth and Wooler all feature.
Gary shows who’s Boss
An Alnwick golfer has received a limited-edition BOSS watch after scoring a hole-in-one during a recent competition at his club.
Chance for youngsters to get a taste of fishing
What a varied week, fishing and otherwise, writes Jon Tait.
Video
VIDEO - Emily Davison Service video
A centennial memorial service for Northumbrian heroine Emily Wilding Davison was held at St Mary’s Church in Morpeth. It was part of the Emily Inspires! programme of events that paid tribute to the internationally famous suffragette who died after falling under the King’s horse at the Epsom Derby.
Lifestyle
Island to host world premiere of Gospels piece
A work by a Northumbrian musician and composer will have its world premiere on the island where the Lindisfarne Gospels were painstakingly created 1,300 years ago as part of the celebrations for their return to the region.
The woman behind that fateful race day
A new play about Emily Wilding Davison comes to north Northumberland later this month as the spotlight turns to the women’s rights campaigner on the centenary of her death.
Alnwick man bids for glory in pencil art competition
An Alnwick artist is set to measure his talents against the rest of the world in an international contest aimed at celebrating pencil art.
Can I have a lift? To Monte Carlo...
A new play is to be staged in Northumberland, written by one of its own.
A year on from cuts to theatre funding
A theatre company which lost out on vital funding last year is still forging ahead with productions, despite the future remaining uncertain.
A blast from the past helps to keep traditional music alive
A celebration of traditional music will be coming to north Northumberland later this month.
Community
Loyal support
On behalf of the Christian Aid committee may I say a very big thank-you to all the churches in the Amble area for their loyal support during Christian Aid week.
Festival success
The success of the recent Puffin Festival in Amble was due to the unstinting work carried out by the Amble Action Group Committee, Julia, Helen, Anna, Elaine and Kate, who gave up their time and effort to make this work for the community, I cannot thank them enough.
Poppy funds
At the annual fund-raising dinner/dance of the Warkworth and Amble District Royal British Legion held on June 1, at the Sun Hotel, Warkworth, the evening raised the fantastic total of £655 for the Poppy Appeal.
Managing the environment
Beatrix Potter was not a sentimentalist, but a well-recognised scientist with a great deal of research into fungi. She had a paper read at the Royal Society which she personally could not attend because she was a woman.
Do we want a troglodyte community?
The Planning Inspector’s rejection of an appeal to allow an unacceptable over-development of the Links site near Beadnell is vindication of the planning committee’s decision to ignore yet again the county planning department’s recommendations.
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Weather for Northumberland
Tuesday 18 June 2013
Today
Sunny spells
Temperature: 11 C to 14 C
Wind Speed: 15 mph
Wind direction: South east
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Temperature: 10 C to 17 C
Wind Speed: 12 mph
Wind direction: East
