Northumberland is pretty rich in historic castles...but which one is best?
Just for fun, the Your Place microsites is running a poll to find Northumberland's favourite castle.
You can vote below for either Alnwick, Bamburgh, Chillingham, Chipchase, Dunstanburgh, Langley, Lindisfarne, Prudhoe, Thirlwall or Warkworth (or add in your own if we've missed it off!)
The results will be revealed next Friday.
An action group is hoping Northumbrians' generosity will help people to change their lifestyles for the better.
Mark Curr and Adam Bell, active travel co-ordinators for South-East Northumberland Sustrans, are aiming to get people cycling whenever they can, including offering to hire bikes out for free to help workers commute by bike.
But although they have a good supply of new bikes for community events such as group bike rides and car-less days at businesses, their fleet of donated and second hand bikes is limited.
Northumberland's new super council is to retain the existing county council's official logo when it takes over following local government reorganisation in April.
A working group has concluded there is merit in reviewing the 35-year-old logo to ensure it reflects the new unitary council's vision and values.
However, the need to prioritise effective service delivery from April 1 means it will be retained for the time being.
A Wansbeck housing association is putting up £45,000 for a package of neighbourhood improvements after conducting a series of estate walkabouts with its tenants.
Wansbeck Homes - which manages the district council's 5,300 houses and flats - is acting on improvements suggested by tenants.
Tomorrow will see the launch of a new free newspaper for Journal readers in Northumberland.
Journal Extra will come free with The Journal every Thursday with 36 pages of news and sport from around the county in addition to The Journal's normal service.
Regular features in Journal Extra will include a nostalgia page, readers' pictures of Northumberland and a weekly focus on one of the county's schools. There will also be weekly promotions and competitions exclusively for our Northumberland readers.
A funeral service was held this week for a former councillor who was a stalwart of local government in the Wansbeck area of Northumberland for more than 30 years.
Ken Roach, who was 83 when he died, was first elected to the former Bedlingtonshire Urban District Council in 1955, and was a founder member of Wansbeck Council when it was formed in 1974 under local government reorganisation.
Developers are being taken to court over their alleged failure to rectify a series of problems on a trouble- plagued luxury housing estate.
Ho Sanderson and his wife Margaret are due to appear before magistrates in Bedlington next month after legal proceedings were started against them by Wansbeck District Council.
Ho Sanderson at the then derelict Hartford Hall near Bedlington, before the development work began.
The prosecution refers to the couple's alleged failure to comply with planning conditions imposed by the council on the development of the Hartford Hall residential estate near Bedlington.
Lee Hamilton and Andrew Johnson with a brace swept title contenders Tow Law Town to victory at Bedlington Terriers in the Northern League at the weekend.
The Terriers are currently lying 16th but have a cushion of several points over the bottom clubs.
Traveller's Rest, Choppington returned to the top of the Morpeth Sunday League table with a 5-2 win over Bedlington Northumberland Arms.
Jonathan Doyle and Paul McGlen netted for the Northumberland Arms, whilst Jonathan Young, Simon Kilpatrick and Damien Mullen with a hat-trick saw the Traveller's to the three points.
Josh Haye also bagged a hat-trick for Amble Pier 81, and proved to be the major difference as they defeated Linton and Woodhorn SC 3-0.
Acting certainly runs in the family for one Bedlington mother and daughter. Marie McAndrew, 42, took to the stage in Morpeth Pantomime Society's first-ever show, Little Red Riding Hood, when she was just 11 years old.
Thirty years later and her daughter Charlotte, also 11, is following in her footsteps.
Charlotte will be performing in the chorus of the society's production of Aladdin next week. She will be acting alongside mum Marie, who plays the lead role.
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