A couple have been recognised for their work fostering children.
Northumberland County Council commended Michael and Marie McGuire who have fostered more than 60 young people in the last 30 years.
A certificate, bouquet of flowers and £60 of vouchers were presented to the McGuires during the council's celebration of Foster Care Fortnight, which was from May 11 to 24, to encourage more people to be foster carers.
Visitors to a Morpeth garden centre will soon be able to learn all about the heroic Great North Air Ambulance as part of a weekend dedicated to raising awareness for the charity.
Representatives from the ambulance service - GNAA - will be at Heighley Gate Nursery and Garden Centre on Saturday and Sunday to promote the GNAA Weekly Lottery and to inform visitors to the garden centre about their work.
Centre manager, Steve Bowyer said: "We are delighted that the GNAA, which is one of our charities of the year for 2009, are coming along to the garden centre for the weekend.
A specialist fire and rescue service team dedicated to water rescue operations has been set up in Northumberland.
The new team will improve the county council's emergency response to major incidents such as last September's devastating flooding in Morpeth.
Funding from the Environment Agency and the county's fire service has allowed 21 firefighters, mainly based at Morpeth fire station, to be equipped and trained.
A Morpeth-based pharmaceutical company is searching the North East for the new face of a best-selling face cream. Pharma Nord UK, which has offices in Morpeth, has teamed up with The Journal to find a model for a new advert.
The product is 'Q10 revitalising face cream' which protects skin from premature ageing.
Newcastle GP Dr Chris Steele, pictured, who regularly appears on ITV's This Morning, often acts as a spokesman for the company, but they are now looking for a fresh face to represent their product.
Shops in Morpeth are set to be festooned with protest posters as worried traders step up their battle against rival bids for new out-of-town supermarkets.
Over the next two weeks, it is hoped that scores of the special posters will go up on shop windows in Morpeth - bearing the blunt message 'Hands Off Our Town'.
They have been produced by the town's chamber of trade as part of its campaign against moves by retail giants Tesco and Sainsbury's to build major new stores on the outskirts.
A presentation on plans to revamp the region's hospitals takes place in Northumberland next week.
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is proposing a new specialist emergency care hospital near Cramlington for people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside, improvements to Wansbeck and North Tyneside general hospitals and rebuilding community hospitals in Berwick and Haltwhistle. The proposals would also affect emergency care services at Hexham General.
A presentation on the plans takes place at a meeting of Warkworth Parish Council on Thursday, June 4 at 6.30pm in the Memorial Hall on Castle Street.
A schoolboy hailed a hero after using first aid training learned at school to save his mum is heading to London to receive a top award.
Brandon Flanighan, 12, stayed calm and remembered the lifesaving lessons from the young first-aider course after he and his sister Lara, 13, found their mum Jacqueline, 44, lying semi-conscious in a pool of blood in the kitchen.
She had collapsed and gashed her head at the family home.
A series of events and activities aimed at helping the recovery process in a Northumberland town devastated by flooding gets under way again in the next few days.
This summer Morpeth and its surrounding area will play host to about 40 different events celebrating its culture, heritage and traditions - nine months after 1,000 homes and businesses in the town were flooded last September.
The series began in the run-up to Christmas when the community was getting back on its feet following the catastrophe. Now the summer arts and culture programme stretching from June through to September - organised by the Greater Morpeth Development Trust, the town's chamber of trade and the Town Council - will keep the momentum going.
College staff honouring the memory of a popular student from Morpeth who died from a rare blood disorder have raised more than £1,000 for a charity which helps teenagers fight cancer.
Danny Petini, 18, a sports science student at Northumberland College in Ashington, died on New Year's Day 2008 after battling leukaemia and the blood disease haemophagocytic syndrome.
Danny's last months were spent at the teenage cancer unit at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary, where the quality of his care was highly praised by his family.
Two Northumberland teachers have been selected as finalists in the North East heats of the 2009 Teaching Awards.
Dianne Greenwood, headteacher at Abbeyfields First School in Morpeth, has been nominated in the Lifetime Achievement category.
And Fiona Conley, a teacher at St Joseph's RC Middle School in Hexham, is one of four nominees for the Special Needs Teacher of the Year Award.
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