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Rothbury VE Day celebrations.

15 photos from VE Day 80 celebrations in Rothbury

Tree planting in Ashington.

Tree project to mark 80th anniversary of end of World War Two

Wansbeck Care Home met eight key standards to secure the accreditation.

Care home receives Veteran Friendly Framework accreditation

Ashington Cricket Club will plant 48 trees as part of the project.

Cricket club raises £20,000 for project to commemorate war heroes

Oli Gowing is presented with the Poppy Sword Challenge trophy by Colonel Jassal and Neil Gordon, of Newcastle Building Society. Picture: Steve Dack

Ponteland prove they are up for the challenge

Picture taken during the service at the Castlegate war memorial in 2023 by Alan Hughes.

Services in the Berwick area to honour the fallen

A poppy in tribute

Shopping centre visitors encouraged to make a poppy tribute

Poppies displayed around Rothbury in preparation for Remembrance weekend.

Community launches veterans breakfast club

The war memorial at Castlegate in Berwick. Picture by Eric Musgrave.

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Coun Catherine Seymour at the Castlegate War Memorial site in Berwick.

Restoration and maintenance works begin at a war memorial in Berwick

A landing craft approaching Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6 1944, a scene that the film Saving Private Ryan re-created.

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Fish and chips.

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D-Day veteran Bernard Morgan reads historic note revealing end of WW2 in Europe.

Watch: D-Day hero reads historic note revealing end of WW2 in Europe

175 people who died fighting in the Second World War are already commemorated at Ashington Memorial Garden. (Photo by Ashington Town Council)

Plaques by memorial trees will honour war dead

Janette McNally.

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An indoor market in the Northumberland Hall.

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The academy’s sea cadets joined the service in their uniforms. (Photo by Barry Pells)

Remembrance service led by Bede Academy pupils

Alnwick visitors to RAF Boulmer. Picture: Alnwick Town Council

RAF Boulmer invites dignitaries to see UK's early warning system in operation

Large crowds at the 2022 Remembrance Sunday service in Berwick. Picture by Alan Hughes.

Services in Berwick to honour the fallen

Gill Latif, Paul Harris, Mayor Geoff Watson, Linda Harvey of Alnwick Medical Group, Claire Nicol and Suzanne Anderson.

Alnwick home marks 40th anniversary with community celebration event

The former social club could become a beauty shop. (Photo by Google)

Plans submitted for new beauty shop in Ashington

The new plastic-free poppy (Photo: Royal British Legion)

Royal British Legion announce new plastic-free Remembrance Day poppies

National Service reflected in ex-armed service personnel numbers.

Over 15,000 armed forces veterans in Northumberland

The Duke of Northumberland; George, Earl Percy; Alnwick Mayor Councillor Geoff Watson and Councillor Glen Sanderson; Leader of Northumberland County Council, at the networking event in Alnwick Castle. Picture: Alnwick Town Council.

Duke of Northumberland hosts community networking event

Scores of people attended the Remembrance Sunday service in Ashington.

Ashington remembers its war dead

Remembrance Sunday in Berwick.

17 pictures as hundreds mark Remembrance Sunday in Berwick

Standards raised at a Berwick remembrance service in 2021. Picture by Ian Smith.

Services being held in Berwick to honour the fallen

Cameron Aylwin.

Metal poppy sales raise funds for Royal British Legion
Beautiful hand-crafted metal poppies have proved a hit with Morpeth shoppers in the build up to Remembrance Sunday.
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Dianne Watson, Geraldine Charman, John Wheeler and John Parker from the Alnwick branch of the Royal British Legion.

New RBL branch all set for Remembrance Sunday debut

War veterans David John Dade (Left) and Ken Sprowles at the launch of the Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal in central London (photo: Getty Images)

Annual Poppy Appeal is launched across the UK

Jake, Madelyn and Pat Scott with the Wooler Tommy they helped to make.

Hundreds of knitted poppies used to create 'Tommy' soldier

Wreaths lay at the foot of the Cenotaph after the Remembrance Day (getty images)

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Last year's Remembrance service in Alnwick.

Alnwick branch of Royal British Legion gets new standard

Phillip Rainger, chairman of the Ashington Branch of the RBL, lays at wreath to mark 40 years since the Falklands War.

Ashington to hold remembrance parade this winter

There was a large turnout at the remembrance service marking 40 years since the Falklands war.

Blyth remembers fallen soldiers in Falklands war

A Royal British Legion branch has recently been formed in Alnwick.

New Alnwick branch of Royal British Legion to meet

Tweedmouth War Memorial, picture by Canon Alan Hughes, and the remains of an Argentine trench from the war for the possession of the Falkland Islands in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom, picture from Getty Images.

Wreaths to be laid in Berwick for Falklands casualty

The Fusiliers Band at the Alnwick Remembrance parade. Picture: Jane Coltman

Alnwick Town Council makes donation to Fusiliers

Staff at The Cook and Barker Inn have donated nearly £300 to the Royal British Legion.

Northumberland pub staff donate tips to Royal British Legion poppy appeal

An image to raise awareness of Remembrance in Spittal, featuring the church cascading display.

Strong support for Poppy Appeal and Remembrance

Poppy Appeal.

Strong support for Poppy Appeal and Remembrance

An Alnwick branch of the Royal British Legion could be formed.

Plans for Alnwick branch of Royal British Legion to be discussed

Phillip Rainger, the Ashington Poppy Appeal Organiser, and Brenda Richardson at the War Memorial in Ashington.

Royal British Legion set to launch Poppy Appeal in Ashington

This year's Poppy Appeal launches on Thursday, October 28.

New trio organising Poppy Appeal in Morpeth
Residents, businesses and organisations in Morpeth are being urged to support the 2021 Poppy Appeal.
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