ASHINGTON'S Kenneth Ferrie is to play in The Rock, the biggest PGA regional tournament in England, which starts its three-day run at Matfen Hall on August 25.
The professional event carries a £30,000 prize fund, admission is free and, with the first day of the tournament falling on a Bank Holiday Monday, a sizeable gallery is expected to follow the most successful player in the history of North East golf.
ASHINGTON currently lie in mid-table in the Wellstream Northumberland and Tyneside Senior League, and while they have little chance of catching runaway leaders Swalwell they still retain their pre-season ambitions of finishing in the top four.
Bearing in mind the fact the Colliers have had to spend most of the season without professional Ben Harmison, because of his success with Durham, that they retain a realistic chance of achieving that goal is testimony to how well the side has coped.
REFEREEING junior football matches watched by over-enthusiastic parents can be more daunting than officiating professional players in front of crowds of tens of thousands, according to a leading North referee.
Northumberland-based Football League official Michael Oliver, pictured, said the pressure heaped on referees by competitive mums and dads outweighed the worry of being the man in black at top games with highly-paid stars.
AN alcoholic who stole and crashed a family car with a baby strapped inside it was sent to prison for four months yesterday.
John Taylor, 35, was three-and-half times over the legal drink-driving limit when he spotted Kevin Young's Citroen parked with the driver's door open and engine running as he staggered along the street on a Sunday afternoon.
A SPECIAL guest was on hand yesterday to start - and then take part in - a charity run which will raise thousands of pounds in the fight against cancer.
Brave five-year-old Kirsty Foster from Ashington (pictured left with sister Chloe), who has survived leukaemia, sounded the horn at the beginning of the Cancer Research Race for Life in Newcastle's Exhibition Park.
In the first of two races during the day, 2,235 women set off on the 5km route. For the afternoon race a further 2,225 women took part, all of whom had worked hard to raise money for the charity.
Many of the runners had lost relatives to the disease or were survivors themselves.
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