Your Place Hexham

A team of Northumberland chefs were last night toasting their success after cooking-up a storm in a TV culinary masterclass.

Huw Mainwaring, 56, of Hexham, has been donating blood every month for the last three years in memory of his beloved wife, Annie.

What some people call the 'purest form' of English, the Northumbrian dialect, has been eroded over time and no-one knows how much Northumbrians and Geordies still have their own way of speaking.

Northumberland County Council voted to close the facilities used as meeting places by elderly and disabled people at Amble, Blyth, Bedlington, Haltwhistle, Hexham, Ponteland and Prudhoe.

The Army service records of more than two million British soldiers who served during the "war to end all wars" have been published online for the first time.

By day, Joanne Williams was a traditional bride in a white dress tying the knot with suited and booted partner David Copeland. By night, the lovebirds became a witch and a vampire, surrounded by a host of ghoulish guests.

A spirited debate is raging about the soft drink after a teen at a school in Maine became concerned that it contained alcohol.

The parents of a North East man who died in the Lockerbie bombing have welcomed a police review of the case - but said it falls short of their ultimate aim of a full-scale inquiry into the atrocity.

One of the region's best known soft drinks firms believes it can add £2m to its £4m turnover after developing its own on-site flavour testing labs and launching a range of non-alcoholic cocktails in time for Christmas.

After last week's postponement due to the gale force wind at Wallsend when the changing room roof was gradually disappearing over the coast road, Hexham were keen to get back into action.

Drama enthusiasts in Northumberland villages are looking forward to a stage show which has been secured thanks to a subsidy scheme aimed at taking quality theatre "out into the sticks".