A LONG-running project to convert rare wartime relics into a tourism and education centre is on course to be completed early next year.
Blyth Battery - which was built on the town's seaside links to defend the port during two world wars - has been described as the best surviving example of an anti-aircraft battery on the east coast of England.
For more than a decade, Blyth Valley Council and local heritage enthusiasts have been working to bring the collection of buildings back into use as a visitor attraction and educational resource.
A NORTH East businessman gunned down above his restaurant could have been murdered in a fit of mistaken jealousy.
Illegal immigrant Zhong Guo, pictured, travelled to Blyth and shot the man he believed was having a relationship with his former girlfriend.
But Northumbria Police last night said they did not know whether Shahdad Pouresmaeilieh was anything other than a business colleague of Yung Fang Zhang.
BRITAIN'S first offshore wind farm - located half a mile off the Northumberland coastline - should soon be producing energy again after standing idle for more than two years.
Green power company E.ON is on the verge of completing the installation of a new armoured cable which will allow the blades on the two turbines off Blyth to start turning again for the first time since early 2006.
FRESH warnings were issued yesterday about the potentially fatal risks involved in taking illegal drugs after two teenagers ended up in hospital following a house party.
The girls, aged 14 and 17, were taken by ambulance to Wansbeck General Hospital in Ashington, Northumberland, on Tuesday night with drug overdoses.
They had earlier been among a number of people in a house in Richard Street, Blyth, and are believed to have taken a mixture of illegal and prescription drugs, together with alcohol.
AN 11-year-old girl is fighting for her sight after being shot in the face by a ball bearing (BB) gun. Chloe Laidlaw was playing outside her house, in Blyth, when she was shot in an apparently unprovoked attack.
Police are speaking to an eight-year-old boy in connection with the shooting, which happened at around 5.30pm on Saturday.
Chloe was due to return to hospital yesterday to find out whether she needs surgery on a torn pupil. Doctors said she was lucky not to be permanently blinded by the rubber pellet, because of the close proximity at which it was fired.
Fire service plans for a £10m shake-up of 999 cover in Northumberland are finally to go ahead - three years after being approved amid a storm of controversy.
Work is expected to start early next year on the PFI-funded modernisation, which involves the closure of fire stations in Blyth, Cramlington, Morpeth and Ashington and the loss of about 28 full-time firefighter posts.
MANAGER Harry Dunn will step up his attempts to bring in new faces following his side's defeat in Blue Square North at Farsley Celtic.
Dunn has been working for more than a week to sign a couple of players with Football League experience and remains hopeful the deals can be completed.
MANAGER Harry Dunn failed in his bid to bring in two new players before the game but was no doubt pleased with the performance of his existing squad. Blyth were worthy winners against Workington who rarely threatened.
They declared their intentions from the start taking the game to the Reds and were almost rewarded after six minutes. Robbie Dale, Andrew Leeson and Philip Bell combined and Ged Dalton forced a save from goalkeeper Adam Collin.
Blyth Community College has met its target for pupils achieving 5 A*-C GCSE passes.
Blyth was one of 20 in the region to be put on the Government's National Challenge list in May and told that they could be closed if they didn't get 30% of students passing five GCSEs at A-C including English and maths by 2011.
In 2007 the school achieved a pass rate of 28%, slightly below the requirement.
FOLLOWING an opening-day victory at Croft Park, Blyth Spartans have lost twice by the same margin on their travels and both times were unlucky not to return home with at least a point.
They more than matched AFC Telford but a two-goal deficit proved too big an obstacle even though they were back in the game with Gareth Williams' goal 22 minutes from time.
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