The Annual School Awards at Glendale Middle School were presented at a Presentation Assembly on Monday 18th July at 2pm.

View list of award winners

Cyclists are invited to join a free group ride from Wooler to the College Valley on the Saturday July 23, starting at 10am from the car park in Padgepool Place.

The Valley of the Sentinels route goes through Akeld and Kirknewton and up the College Valley to Mounthooly - with an optional three mile off-road extension towards the Border Ridge - and then back to Wooler.

On Saturday 25th June Glendale Middle School took a team of 22 athletes to Gateshead International Stadium to compete in the Northumberland Minor Athletics Championship. Having already performed very well at the Area and Inter Area Championships hopes were high.

However not even the most optimistic of supporters could have predicted the success that was to follow.

Jeremy added this picture of woodland near Wooler to our Northumberland Communities Flickr group.

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Spectacular photos shared by members of our Northumberland group on the Flickr photo-sharing website. Click on a photo to see the caption and to view it in a larger size.

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On Saturday 4th June 2011, the North of Tyne Mountain Rescue Team are happy to be organising the 17th Alwinton Round. Based in and around Alwinton, there will be three walks to suit all abilities ranging from a 6 mile 'family walk' to the 20 mile walk for the more experienced.
Big 20 mile walk and Long 15 mile walk begin at 10am from Alwinton village, registration in the Rose and Thistle pub.
Family 6 mile walk starts between 11am and 1.30pm.

Further information from alwintonround@googlemail.com or visiting our team website at www.northoftynesearchandrescue.org.uk

Michael Chesterson added this picture to our Northumberland group on Flickr.

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A bid to more than quadruple the number of people visiting Wooler Tourist Information Centre has just been launched with the opening of its new office in the Cheviot Centre, Padgepool Place.

A £25,000 redesign of the Cheviot Centre foyer has enabled the TIC office to move to the ground floor where a staffed counter and display stands greet everyone who comes in.

"The TIC used to be upstairs and attracted around 10,000 people a year compared to around 70,000 people who used the Cheviot Centre," says Neil Wilson, Assets Manager of the Glendale Gateway Trust which runs the Cheviot Centre.

"While the TIC rated highly in the services it provided for visitors, it struggle to make an income on sales to help cover its costs. Now a wide range of merchandise - together with a dramatic view of the Cheviots displayed on the counter - are the first things visitors see when they enter the centre."

Award-winning actor Caroline Horton relives her Parisian grandmother's wartime experiences in a riveting one woman show - You're Not Like the Other Girls Chrissy - at Wooler's Cheviot Centre on Thursday April 7, 7.30pm.

Set in Paris 1945, this is a fond, comical and ultimately poignant portrait of one woman's experience of love and war.

Songs and tunes from Ireland, Scotland and North East England will fill Wooler's Cheviot Centre on March 19 when a talented pair of musicians Gareth Davies-Jones and Calum Stewart perform to raise money for Glendale Free Music Festival.

Singer-songwriter Gareth Davies-Jones (pictured below) was born and raised in County Down in the north east of Ireland and now lives near Newcastle while Calum Stewart (pictured below right) is originally from Elgin in north east Scotland and studied on the folk degree course at Newcastle University.

Taking songs and tunes from each of these three distinctive regions of the British Isles Gareth and Calum have put together an evocative and engaging evening of musical entertainment.