Gardening projects run by cash-strapped schools and community groups are set to benefit from a garden tools 'amnesty' in Northumberland.
Green-fingered enthusiasts are being asked to hand over their old and broken tools to staff at the Heighley Gate nursery and garden centre near Morpeth next month.
They are urged to take in their unwanted spades, trowels, forks, hoes, rakes and other non-powered equipment between Saturday, February 13 and Sunday 28.
The story behind the production of a slice of hot buttered toast is being taken to schoolchildren tomorrow by two Northumberland farmers.
Morpeth arable farmer Jack Storey and Ponteland dairy farmer Dennis Gibb will be visiting Abbeyfields School in Morpeth as part of Farmhouse Breakfast Week.
FARMA member Ian Byatt
The school visit, which involves model dairy cow Annabelle, and the opportunity to make butter and grind flour for bread, has been organised by the NFU to support its Why Farming Matters campaign.
Click below to view exam performance tables for Middle and High schools in Morpeth:
The King Edward VI High School - GCSE (2009), Post-16 (2009)
Morpeth Chantry Middle School - Key Stage 2 (2009)
Morpeth Newminster Middle School - Key Stage 2 (2009)
Collingwood School and Media Arts College- Key Stage 2 (2009), GCSE (2009)
Comparative tables for Northumberland schools: Key Stage 2, GCSE, Post-16
A teenager has been selected to take part in the regional final of a national cookery competition for budding young chefs.
Edward Matthew, 13, from King Edward VI School in Morpeth will compete in a cook-off against other students at Harrogate College on December 1.
He will battle for the regional title of the quality standard beef and lamb Young Chef Challenge and to win prizes, such as professional chef whites and £200 of school kitchen equipment vouchers.
Worried parents yesterday condemned police plans which could have a major impact on their children's popular and high-performing school.
The Northumbria Police Authority is consulting on four potential options to redevelop or replace the Victorian police station in Morpeth, which is nearing the end of its operational life.
Two of the options involve building on the play area of the adjacent, 360-pupil Morpeth County First School, which was rated as outstanding by Ofsted following its last inspection in 2007.
Plans to develop a new police station in a Northumberland town by building on a popular school's main playground have been branded "totally unacceptable".
Governors and staff at 360-pupil Morpeth County First are said to be "astounded and aghast" at the suggestion that part of the school site could be swallowed up by a replacement for the town's Victorian police HQ.
Leaders of the school - which was rated outstanding by Ofsted following a 2007 inspection - say they made it clear to consultants acting for Northumbria Police in the summer that the idea was a non-starter.
Students from a Northumberland school are raising money for a cancer charity at an event this weekend.
A-level business students at King Edward VI School in Morpeth have organised the event at Longhirst Hall in aid of Cancer Research UK on Saturday.
Tickets for the event are available from Katie Green on 07824994207 and cost £12.
A teacher at Chantry Middle School in Morpeth raised more than £1,000 for the Stroke Association in the first abseil off Newcastle's Byker Bridge.
Hannah Barnard's father, Jonty, was hit by a stroke when Hannah was only eight and confined to a wheelchair.
After treatment he was able to walk again and on Saturday he was there to cheer his daughter all the way down.
More than 100 people made the 80ft drop from the bridge to Ouseburn Farm to raise money for stroke sufferers and their families and the charity event made around £10,000.
Schoolchildren have been using pedal power to work up a healthy thirst for this weekend's Wallington Food and Craft Festival.
The Real Food Works, one of the companies that will be attending the festival, has been demonstrating the power of its smoothie bike to pupils from nearby Cambo First School, in Northumberland.
As the bike travels, refreshing fruit drinks are prepared on the back, teaching children about the importance of eating a healthy and balanced diet.
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