Football fans in a former pit town are being urged to get behind their famous non-league club as it prepares to kick off an exciting new era.
Ashington FC - which has strong links to the World Cup winning Charlton brothers and Newcastle United legend Jackie Milburn - played at the town's old Portland Park stadium for just over a century.
Earlier this year it was finally forced to quit its spiritual home, which will now be redeveloped as the site for a new £25m Asda superstore.
Fire service plans for a £10m shake-up of 999 cover in Northumberland are finally to go ahead - three years after being approved amid a storm of controversy.
Work is expected to start early next year on the PFI-funded modernisation, which involves the closure of fire stations in Blyth, Cramlington, Morpeth and Ashington and the loss of about 28 full-time firefighter posts.
Record-breaker Natalie Johnson was the toast of her Northumberland school today after chalking up the best set of GCSE results in its history.
Sixteen-year-old Natalie, pictured, a student at Hirst High School in Ashington, recorded a magnificent 12 A* grades, including 100% for each module in physics and chemistry.
The great North East's tradition of prize leek growing has been dealt a blow with the scrapping of one of the country's biggest shows.
For the last 28 years, the world open leek championship and world heaviest onion challenge at the Northern Club in Ashington, Northumberland, has attracted entries from across the UK.
Voters in part of Northumberland will go to the polls next year to elect their first-ever representatives on a new grass-roots network of local councils.
Five parish councils - the first in the Wansbeck district's history - are set to be created as part of April's switch to unitary local government in the county.
Ashington's two high schools enjoyed great A-level results today.
DURHAM fast bowler Steve Harmison may be surplus to requirements as far as the England Test XI are concerned, but he has been doing his bit for golf.
Harmison, who plays off a handicap of 10 at Longhirst Hall, has officially opened the club's Connect Effect YoungStar Academy and said his club's mission is to find youngsters good enough to make it as Tour golfers.
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