Hero climber Will Close-Ash last night relived the moment he launched a daring three-hour rescue mission to save a walker who had plunged 250ft down an icy ravine.
Bedlingtonshire Community High School assistant headteacher Mr Close-Ash was trekking through the Scottish Highlands when he came across a stricken walker who had fallen from a narrow mountain path.
Cold and shivering, the terrified woman had shattered bones in her arm and shoulder after slamming into rocks as she plummeted down the mountainside.
Click below to view recent exam performance tables for Bedlington schools:
Bedlingtonshire Community High School - GCSE (2009), Post-16 (2009)
St Benet Biscop Catholic High School - GCSE (2009), Post-16 (2009)
Meadowdale Middle School - Key Stage 2 (2009)
Comparative tables for Northumberland schools:
Key Stage 2, GCSE, Post-16
A man has appeared in court accused of a stealing lead from a school rooftop in Northumberland.
Christopher Turner, of Hollymount Square, Bedlington, appeared before South East Northumberland magistrates' court yesterday, charged with theft of the metal valued to be around £1,500.
The court heard how the 36-year-old is jointly accused of stealing lead and copper flashing from the roof of Meadowdale Middle School, in Hazelmere Avenue, Bedlington, on Saturday, with Scott Maddison.
A defendant is due before magistrates today accused of lead theft from a school roof which has left another man fighting for life.
The injured man was discovered after he plunged from the icy roof of Meadowdale Middle School, on Hazelmere Avenue, in Bedlington, on Saturday.
Last night he remained in a critical condition at Wansbeck General Hospital, in Ashington.
A gas leak meant that Meadowdale Middle School was closed yesterday until the New Year.
The school will reopen on Tuesday 5 January.
A hero teacher from a school in Bedlington was killed after plunging 70ft while desperately trying to rescue a fellow climber on an icy path in Scotland.
Alastair Aitken, 37, was trekking through the Highlands at the weekend when he spotted someone who had slipped and plunged into a freezing river below.
The man survived the fall but suffered serious injuries and was left helpless at the bottom of the cliff face.
Pupils from Bedlington have been working hard to help out youngsters in Eastern Europe.
Students at Bedlingtonshire Community High School filled pencil cases with basic stationery to send to a school in Romania.
The school was approached by a parent, Jill Kinghorn, to help to fill 1,000 pencil cases, and was delighted to help.
Hundreds of youngsters are being challenged to make money grow as part of a drive to foster a new spirit of enterprise.
About 1,500 school pupils in Wansbeck are joining forces with local companies of all sizes, who are investing thousands of pounds in the project.
From left, Callum Gardner- Kerr, Reece Aitmann, Suzi Howey of Food Local Food, David Turner and Joseph Beers at St Benet Biscop High School
Make £5 Grow is the brainchild of the Wansbeck Education Enterprise Network (WEEN).
Northumberland's attempts to finally get its hands on funding from a Government programme to rebuild dilapidated schools is set to take an important step forward.
The county has so far been denied any money from the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme, which was launched in 2004 with the aim of rebuilding or renewing every secondary school in England.
Now the Liberal Democrat-led county council is being recommended to progress efforts to gain entry to the programme - with plans to improve under-performing schools in the Wansbeck area.
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