A top tourist attraction is to host a special event celebrating the achievements of Northumberland schools which promote healthy lifestyles for their pupils.
More than 100 people from the 153 schools in the county which have been awarded official Healthy School status will attend the event at the Duchess of Northumberland's Alnwick Garden on Tuesday.
Organised by the county council, the celebration will include the presentation of certificates and plaques to representatives of 21 schools.
Controversial Government buildings in a Northumberland town have won a clutch of awards.
The Defra Lion House buildings at Alnwick were built last year with an environmentally friendly theme, boasting three wind turbines which some claim stand idle for much of the time.
The green attributes also include photovoltaic panels, solar collector panels for hot water, a biomass boiler, and rainwater harvesting.
Camera equipment worth hundreds of pounds was stolen from a car in Northumberland.
Police are appealing for witnesses to the theft in a country lane in Howick, near Alnwick, Northumberland, on June 30.
Among the items stolen were two cameras, camera bags and memory cards. Anyone with information can call police on (03456) 043043.
A teenager was killed and two other people seriously injured last night when a car collided with a tree.
The driver of a Vauxhall Corsa, understood to be a 17-year old boy from Alnwick, Northumberland, died in the smash near his home town.
He is the second 17-year-old from the area to be killed in an accident on the road in less than a month.
A man has been barred from all pubs in Alnwick after he was convicted for an assault.
John Anthony Herbert Costa pleaded guilty to assaulting a man by punching and kicking him at Alnwick Magistrates Court.
He was given a nine-week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months and banned him from all pubs in Alnwick for six months as part of a supervision order.
People in a Northumberland seaside village which has no mobile phone coverage have launched a campaign to get a signal.
Craster has no mobile reception, because it is in a hollow surrounded by rocky crags.
It is understood mobile phone masts work on a line of sight basis and because of this the nearest one, around half a mile away, misses out the village.
One of Alnwick's biggest employers has been put up for sale, sparking fears over the future of more than 150 jobs.
International pharmaceutical company Sanofi Aventis has announced that it is seeking a buyer for its site at Alnwick, where 170 people work.
The Alnwick site, established in 1982, is one of only six company premises in the UK but the country's only base for research and development (R&D), in particular preclinical research.
A road will be closed for four weeks over the summer holidays while workers upgrade the sewage system.
A section of Howling Lane in Alnwick, near the junction with Alwynside, will be shut to traffic while the sewage network is improved. Construction traffic will also be using the lane to access the site.
The £200,000 scheme will involve upgrading the combined sewer overflows, which are designed to discharge diluted wastewater into watercourses in times of very heavy rainfall to protect properties and surrounding land from flooding.
Culture vultures swooped on Alnmouth at the weekend to enjoy a great display of Northumbrian arts talent.
The Alnmouth Arts Festival, now in its fifth year, offered a taste of a range of different media in locations throughout the village.
Photographs, paintings, and crafts by both amateurs and professionals were on display at a range of locations including people's houses, a cafe, a gallery, the ex-servicemen's club, the golf club, a gazebo and even in the tiny space of the ferryman's hut.
A talented Northumberland teenager has been hitting all the right notes in her quest for musical success.
Following years of dedication and practice, Belford- flautist Amy McMeekin has been picked to join the Northern Sinfonia's junior winds group, which is based at The Sage Gateshead.
Amy, a pupil at Duchess's High School in Alnwick, has also recently achieved success in the grade eight Royal Schools of Music exam, which is the highest level obtainable.
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