The Northumberland Girls' League held their end-of-season finals day at Cramlington Sporting Club.
The day kicked off with the Under-10 Cup final between Blyth Town Pumas and team-mates Blyth Town Panthers, the Pumas triuimphing 6-0.
Forest Hall, just crowned Under-10 League champions, claimed the Under-10 Shield with a 4-1 victory over Corbridge.
A presentation on plans to revamp the region's hospitals takes place in Northumberland next week.
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is proposing a new specialist emergency care hospital near Cramlington for people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside, improvements to Wansbeck and North Tyneside general hospitals and rebuilding community hospitals in Berwick and Haltwhistle.
A presentation on the plans takes place at a meeting of Warkworth Parish Council on Thursday, June 4 at 6.30pm in the Memorial Hall on Castle Street.
Blood donor sessions take place at St Bede's Church Hall, Catholic Row, NE22 6HS, on the following dates:
Wednesday 27 May 2009, 14:00 to 19:00
Wednesday 17 Jun 2009, 14:00 to 19:00
Wednesday 08 Jul 2009, 14:00 to 19:00
Wednesday 16 Sep 2009, 14:00 to 19:00
Wednesday 30 Sep 2009, 14:00 to 19:00
Wednesday 21 Oct 2009, 14:00 to 19:00
For more information or to book an appointment visit www.blood.co.uk.
A group of learning support staff from Bedlingtonshire Community High School have gone back to the classroom to learn about conservation.
The group hooked up with Northumberland Wildlife Trust to learn about its work and help out at the trust's East Chevington Nature Reserve.
The 16 staff members spent their annual teambuilding day digging a new pond. Although the sun was shining, pond digging is messy work and the group took to the task with such enthusiasm that they were soon covered in mud.
Go Wansbeck has recruited four new business experts to join its enterprise coaching team.
Sophia Ali, Karl McCracken, Lisa Scott and Billy Webber have joined existing coaches Jan Grieveson and Graeme Trotter to help people in Wansbeck to turn their ideas, skills, hobbies or interests into business ventures.
Brave air cadets are launching a daring trip to the French Pyrenees - 12 months to the day since they saved the lives of seven stranded climbers.
Will Close-Ash's efforts to scale the side of the Pic Du Canigou mountain last year were thwarted when he was called upon to lead a risky rescue mission.
The assistant headteacher at Bedlington High School, pictured with Emma Stewart, Dominic Jones, 17 and Matthew Chamberlin, 17, was leading an expedition when he saved seven ill-equipped Belgian tourists who were minutes from death.
Last year a team of teenage Air Cadets, led by Bedlingtonshire High School assistant headteacher Will Close-Ash, launched a rescue mission to save the lives of seven stranded climbers in the French Pyrenees.
Open the article to watch footage of the rescue.
The game of musical chairs at the top of the SG Wealth Management Northumberland League continued with Alnmouth & Lesbury regaining top spot.
Alnmouth were almost back to full strength for their trip to Bates Cottages, and they certainly had too much power for their hosts even though Michael Fenwick hit a defiant 64, including nine fours and one six, when the Cottagers took first knock.
Lynemouth are Morpeth Sunday League Division One champions, but runners-up Traveller's Rest, Choppington closed their league campaign with a point as Amble Pier 81 held them to a 3-3 draw. Chris Glass, Darren Riddell and Josh Hay netted for Pier 81, with Mark Miller, David John Kilpatrick and Stephen Young scoring for the Lewin Cup holders.
Red Row Brick Club bounced back from their defeat in the Lewin Cup final last week to beat Stobhill Social Club 4-1. Ronnie Warwick bagged a hat-trick and Stuart Dunn also scored. Ashley McAlpine replied for Stobhill.
The final reckoning for the Morpeth Sunday League Division Two table will have to wait until next week after Blackthorn Rovers v East Chevington was postponed until next Sunday.
Bosses at Northumberland's new super council are being recommended to stick with its controversial 0845 single telephone number.
County hall chiefs have been urged by campaigners both locally and nationally to change the 0845 6006400 number, which has been provided since April 1 for all people who need to contact the unitary authority.
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