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.
The next blood donor session in Newbiggin will take place at St Bartholomew's Church, Front Street, NE64 6NU
on Friday 21 Aug 2009, 14:00- 19:00.
There are further dates in Ashington and Lynemouth.
To book an appointment or for more information visit www.blood.co.uk.
Suspected boy racers crashed through the gateway of a historic church in Northumberland.
A Vauxhall van crashed at the Grade I-listed St Bartholomew's Church, Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, and knocked down two pillars and the gates.
The vehicle was found ablaze by firefighters at 5.50am on Saturday. The driver had fled the scene.
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.
Old posters which were printed more than 60 years ago to promote community events in a seaside village are to be put on display in a planned £3.4m visitor attraction.
The black and white posters were put up in Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland in the mid-1940s to advertise a Remembrance Sunday parade, a concert in the Co-Op Hall and a youth convention.
Local historian Mike Kirkup with one of the posters
Three of the originals were kept by printers Davison's at their Ashington premises, and lay gathering dust for decades until they were found by members of the town's Lions Club about nine years ago.
Newbiggin-by-the-Sea's multi-million-pound renaissance is set to continue with plans to build more than 50 homes in its traditional heart.
Dilapidated buildings just off Newbiggin's shopping centre are earmarked for demolition.
They could be replaced with modern new apartments surrounding a central square.
Hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of Class A drugs were seized in a year-long crackdown by police vying to rid rural Northumberland communities of drug barons.
The Journal can today reveal the scale of the drug problem that plagues the county's isolated countryside, with a massive haul of drugs confiscated by police specialists.
Earlier this year a top judge said drug dealing gangs were targeting rural villages in sophisticated cannabis production operations.
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.
Rubbish police could confiscate bins if householders fill them with the wrong items.
Northumberland County Council hopes to crack down on contamination in recycling wheelie bins using hard-line tactics.
Householders who repeatedly ignore warnings to stop throwing waste food, nappies or dirty items into the bin which is supposed to be for dry, clean, recyclable materials, will have their bin confiscated.
Newbiggin's North beach has been given the stamp of approval by the Good Beach Guide, despite a drop in water quality off the North East's beaches.
The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) will today announce the results of water tests across the region in its annual guide, with a 16.5% drop in the number of UK bathing beaches recommended for excellent water quality and a 23% decline in the North East area, which stretches down to the Humber.
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