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Students and staff at a Wooler school transformed their garden from a wilderness into an award-winning wonderland.

Glendale Community Middle School scooped a bronze medal for the best horticultural project in the prestigious Northumbria in Bloom competition.

The school turned the plot from a weed-plagued disaster into a gorgeous garden in just a year.

The headteacher of a school which closed its doors for the last time on Friday has warned that others will suffer the same fate.

Dave Vero was head at Milfield First School, near Wooler in Northumberland, which has been shut down due to falling pupil numbers making it no longer viable.

By its last day, the school had only seven full and two part-time pupils.

More than 130 years of schooling in a Northumberland village came to an end on Friday, amid emotional scenes.

Milfield First School, near Wooler, closed its doors for the last time two months after Northumberland County Council decided to shut it.

The loss of the village's only school came after an approach to the council by governors who were concerned that falling pupil numbers were making it no longer viable. On its last day the school had a roll of just seven full-time and two part-time pupils.

Its closure is the end of an era for Milfield where a school first opened in 1874.

A staff member at a school in Wooler was yesterday handed an award in the third North East Schools Awards.

Jim Wood from Glendale Middle School won the Caretaker of the Year Award, sponsored by ncjMedia.

The ceremony was staged yesterday at the Centre for Life, in Newcastle.

A caretaker at a school in Wooler is on the shortlist for this year's North East Schools Awards.

Jim Wood of Glendale Middle school is one of three finalists in the Caretaker of the Year Category.

The awards - which are run by The Journal in association with our sister paper on Teesside, the Evening Gazette, and main sponsors Northumbrian Water - are now in their third year.

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A major review is to be carried out amid fears that a declining population in Northumberland will force the closure of more small schools and harm rural communities.

A working group of county councillors will be given the task of investigating the likely future impact of demographic change on the demand for school places across the county.

It will try to identify how many schools are at risk of closure because of falling rolls and how council policies - such as in new housing development - can help tackle the problem.

Around 1,500 schoolchildren from across the region spent yesterday in a showfield near Wooler learning about the importance of the countryside.

A total of 40 schools from Northumberland and Tyne and Wear attended Glendale Agricultural Society's Children's Countryside Day.

An event for children from across the region will be today welcoming its most unusual visitors - an Anglo-Saxon quarrying family.

The Glendale Agricultural Society's Children's Countryside Day is now in its fifth year and will draw about 1,500 children to the organisation's showfield near Wooler.

Pupils from 40 first schools are attending today's event which is designed to teach children the importance of rural issues.