I have received several messages urging me to review the latest restaurant to join the growing gastrohub at Amble.

Final preparations are taking place for the inaugural Glendale Arts Festival, which runs throughout June in Wooler and beyond.

REVIEW: Northern Sinfonia, Alnwick Playhouse.

From cricket to opera and everything in between – that’s what you can expect from the Alnwick Playhouse this summer.

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First impressions speak volumes. From the outside, the Red Lion at Milfield, north of Wooler, looks like a traditional, stone-built coaching inn.

Musicians Derek Allan and Shaggy aka Jason Vare, make up the north Northumberland duo We Steal Flyers, who are well-known mainstays of the area’s music scene. This year, the Gazette is featuring occasional extracts from Derek’s diary, which will feature the group heading out on three tours of Europe and playing at the famous SXSW festival in Texas.

The concert programme for the 2013 Brinkburn Music Festival, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, has been unveiled .

Europe’s most successful Elvis Presley tribute artist, Lee Memphis King, will get Alnwick Playhouse all shook up when he performs there next month.

He developed his theatrical skills in front of audiences in north Northumberland, having been part of the local amateur dramatics scene.

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Local artist and naturalist John Steele is hosting an introduction to sketching the animals, plants and landscapes of Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve.

While the Alnwick area is fairly well stocked with Indian restaurants, those looking for a taste of even further east have to travel a little way for a sit-down Chinese restaurant.

Fancy fine dining is one thing, and I am partial myself on occasion, but sometimes what you feel like is honest pub food.

Top authors will be appearing at events in Alnwick for the second year of Words Across Northumberland, a spin-off of Hexham Book Festival.

A fund-raising concert is being held in aid of HospiceCare North Northumberland later this month.

Jazz met Johannesburg at a special concert to celebrate school links which spread across the world.

A Northumberland calligrapher celebrated his 92nd birthday in January and now an exhibition to mark his work is taking place.

REVIEW: Jo Caulfield, Better The Devil You Know, at Alnwick Playhouse, on Saturday, May 4.

A new exhibition will provide a unique glimpse into the social and economic life of Alnwick and its surrounding countryside in the first half of the 19th century.