Berwick Town maintained thier good start to the season in the North Northumberland League with a 4-3 win over visitors Wooler.

Stuart Payne knocked in two of the homeside's shots, with Michael Antcliffe and John Yule getting the other two.

A NORTH school was celebrating yesterday after winning £1,500 in The Journal's Tokens For Schools competition.

Glendale Middle School in Wooler took second place in the their category of the competition, which featured prizes of £2,500, £1,500 and £500.

Ruth Bull headteacher at Glendale, yesterday said she was absolutely delighted to have an extra £1,500 to put towards updating the school's computers.

Two weeks after watching in despair as her luxury food business was quite literally swept out to sea, Helen Henderson will again today defiantly set out her stall.

The former family law solicitor will take her place alongside fellow artisan producers at this weekend's Alnwick Food Festival.

And while customers may find her pitch in Alnwick Market Place less well stocked than normal, Helen is determined "the show must go on" just 14 days after the worst floods in living memory left both her home and livelihood in ruins.

A man who suffered a stroke has celebrated his 65th birthday with a group of people who he believes saved his life.

Doug Willis is a regular attendee at exercise sessions, run as part of Northumberland Care Trust's cardiac rehabilitation programme for people in rural areas.

On April 1 this year, he collapsed during one of the sessions at Cheviot Primary Care Centre in Wooler, near his home.

Alnwick Town reserves continued their good start to the season in the North Northumberland League as Michael Smith, Neil McFall, Dale Kennedy and James Jackson all netted in the victory at Wooler, whose two replies came from Warren Lumsden and Paul Hardy.

A project to build a Girl Guide shower block in a village has been given the go-ahead despite fierce opposition from residents.

Northumberland National Park Authority received 47 individual letters criticising the plan that will see an extension to the old Kirknewton Church of England School in Kirknewton, on the edge of Northumberland National Park.

The Girl Guide Association already owns the site, having bought it four years ago, and in 2006 applied successfully for a change of use so that they could have the site as a Girl Guide centre with a dormitory.

A farmer described yesterday how a lake two miles wide and six miles long built up in a Northumberland valley during the weekend's torrential rain.

Simon Henderson, of West Fenton Farm, near Wooler, said that livestock died as the flood engulfed Glendale.

Farm workers donned wet suits and used canoes to reach animals.