A NETWORK of grass roots contact points is to be set up across Northumberland to help the county's new super council connect with people and businesses.
One-stop shops and customer service access points will be established in towns across the county - to deal with things such as rent, waste permits, renewing library books and applying for disabled parking permits.
A hero teacher is launching a daring mission to reach the top of a notorious European mountain - only six weeks after he saved the lives of seven stranded climbers in the French Pyrenees.
Will Close-Ash, assistant head teacher at Bedlingtonshire High School, was leading an expedition in June on the Pic Du Canigou mountain when he saved seven ill-equipped Belgian tourists who were minutes from death.
But now the 32-year-old from Wallsend, North Tyneside, is setting out on another adventure, to the summit of the notorious Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps.
A SCHOOL has become the first in the UK to set up a company turning pupils' enterprise projects into real businesses.
St Benet Biscop Business and Enterprise College in Bedlington aims to create jobs for school leavers through its Benet Enterprises company.
The venture will help former students with the best entrepreneurial ideas to establish their own businesses. Although the Government funds enterprise education as part of the curriculum, until now there has not been a mechanism in place to turn classroom-based enterprises into fully fledged trading companies.
MEDALS won in a boy's-own story of wartime heroism are up for sale in an auction this weekend.
Bomber pilot John Topham survived crash-landing in France before being rescued by the Resistance and buried alive to survive capture by the Gestapo.
Flt-Lt Topham was freed from his grave and was then forced to shoot dead an SS officer - who then took the pilot's place in the tomb.
Bedlingtonshire golf club have been presented with the rare Golf Mark award under a national scheme incorporating Sport England's Club Mark accreditation award.
The scheme identifies and recognises junior and beginner-friendly facilities and the club where double European Tour winner Kenneth Ferrie first started the sport is clearly up to the mark.
A Bedlingtonshire idea that might catch on allows youngsters to start playing for £10 a year which enables them to hit balls on the practice ground and the putting green and buy soft drinks in the clubhouse.
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