The Big Lottery funded Their Past Your Future II project examines life in Berwick and its Polish twin town Trzcianka during the Second World War.

The exhibition, administered through the Museums, Archives and Libraries Partnership, runs at Berwick Library in Walkergate until March 15, before going to Wooler Library and Wooler Book Fair from March 17 to 27.

Annabel Milne is determined to bring art into people's lives both through classes and also by taking children to visit art galleries for the very first time in their lives.

She has a wide background in art, including studying fine art at St Martin's College of Art in London, doing an MA at Edinburgh College of Art and then working at Tate Britain and in art publishing as well as teaching art and design and art history.

The Glendale Agricultural Society is holding its annual members quiz next Tuesday at the Tankerville Arms Hotel in Wooler at 7pm. Teams of four are invited to register their entry in advance by phone 01668 283868 or email info@glendaleshow.com

From the end of January, the Wooler Work Web in association with the Glendale Learning Partnership is bringing the training to the people who need it most, launching a series of subsidised courses in the Glendale area.

The aim is to remove obstacles of time, distance and cost which can severely limit access to training for people living in isolated rural communities.

Many of the courses are free or at minimal cost which is important in an area where income is often considerably below the national average.

Glendale Gateway Trust, based in Wooler, was created in 1996 and has since secured £4.9m of funding for the community.

On Saturday, November 21 the trust is staging an open day and tours to give people an insight into its achievements.

The tutorial video (watch below) shows Northumberland County Council's new recycling centre in action and helps residents understand what can and can't be put into the recycling bin.

In Northumberland the council is responsible for collecting waste from more than 140,000 households as well as thousands of business premises.

The children, from Seahouses Middle School, Branton First School, Alnwick South First School and Longridge Towers, made the wildlife models when they took part in the Children's Countryside Day run by the Glendale Agricultural Society.

They include a cardboard red kite, an egg box hedgehog, an orange squirrel, a lemonade bottle salmon and a badger made from boxes.

The impressive creations will now go on display during the half-term holidays in the National Park Visitor Centre, Ingram.

A series of events are being held across the county to inform people of career opportunities with the service.

The theme for the inaugural event is The Future of the Uplands. There will be 60 places available at the Cheviot Centre, Wooler, from 6pm-8pm.

The national park authority has invited Peter Jackson, a board member of One North East to chair the meeting.

People who want to confirm a place, or who have a question that they would like to raise, should e-mail npforum@nnpa.org.uk or telephone (01434) 611516.

And for that reason - and a few others besides - you should block out a couple of hours on Sunday afternoon and get yourself a ticket for Behind the Scenes of TOTAL HELL.

Shots from Andy Wilton's Behind the Scenes of TOTAL HELL

Made by Wooler-based film-maker Andy Wilton, his first feature-length offering has been four years in the making, and takes the form of a mockumentary - a spoof documentary - about the making of a low budget horror movie in the North East.

We take the opportunity to look at three interesting pictures of the village and the surrounding valley from the Journal's photographic archive.

Ingram School was enjoying a celebration almost 60 years ago, too, in our first picture. The school is holding its Christmas party in the early 1950s, with headteacher Mrs Proudlock presiding.

The county's updated Flood Action Plan addresses past, present and future responses to flooding.

Extensive public consultation on the document starts on September 7, which is exactly a year after the flooding catastrophe in Morpeth which left 1,000 homes and businesses under water.

The event likely to attract the biggest crowd is the Glendale Show (pictured), now in its 117th year, featuring a host of rural attractions and stalls. Spectacular carriage driving and falconry displays and a Ready Steady Cook style cooking competition are some of the highlights of the event on Bank Holiday Monday.

In the bottom corner of the county on the same day, Blanchland & Hunstanworth Show (see link below) will be taking place, and two days before on Saturday Bellingham will also be welcoming visitors to its Show to take part and watch various traditional competitions.

And in an attraction organised by Sunny Hill Eggs of Belford, visitors will be invited to knock cartoon chickens off their perches with mini-rugby balls.

The balls are the kind the chickens at Sunny Hill play with on a daily basis.

Former Scottish international and Newcastle Falcon Peter Walton will be pitting his wits against Margaret-Ann Maxwell of Doddington Dairy Cheese in the contest at Glendale Show near Wooler on Bank Holiday Monday, August 31.

Margaret-Ann Maxwell of Doddington Dairy Cheese

The challenge has been issued by show organiser the Glendale Agricultural Society and the sponsor of its demonstration kitchen, the Northumberland National Park Authority.