Hindreds of elderly and disabled people who use seven council-run day centres in Northumberland face a three-month wait to find out whether they can be saved from closure.
A series of public meetings on the future of the threatened centres in Amble, Bedlington, Blyth, Hexham, Haltwhistle, Ponteland and Prudhoe - which are used by 370 people a week - has now been completed, and final decisions will be taken in September.
Further private meetings will be held with individual centre users and their families, and feedback from the public consultation analysed, before reports setting out the various options are presented to county councillors.
Sisters who lost their mum to cancer are running together to help other families going through the same heartbreaking fight.
Eldest sister Debbie Hepworth, 40, has completed Race for Life before, but this will be the first time all four sisters have taken part together.
She will be joined by sisters Malana Jarvis, 36, Amanda Huggan, 32, and Jemma Watson, 28, all from Blyth at the Cancer Research UK Race for Life at Newcastle's Exhibition Park on Sunday, July 12.
Budding footballers now look the part after they were given cash to buy new strips.
Youngsters in the Blyth Spartans Under 9 Team, in Northumberland, were given £500 to kit themselves out.
Family bakers Warburtons awarded them the cash so they could buy the under-9s strips which will be worn at both home and away games over the season.
An 18-year-old man has been arrested and charged following an attack with a samurai sword in Northumberland last week.
The incident happened on Tuesday, June 23, in Blyth.
Police attended Southend Avenue in the town just before 11.30pm, where they found a 22-year-old man with serious injuries to his head and elbow.
Blyth Rangers Valencia are set for a Fair old time in London - in the company of England footballer David Beckham.
The Northumberland under-11 side travels to the capital later this summer to spend two days at the former Manchester United and Real Madrid midfielder's Football Academy.
That was their prize for winning the Fair Play Award at the three-day Easter and Spring Festival of Football in Skegness.
Crew members and officials at a lifeboat station are preparing to welcome the public to their biggest fundraising event of the year.
The event, at the Blyth RNLI boathouse at North Gate in the town's South Harbour, will be opened by Hannah Bayman of BBC Look North.
There will be the chance for people to meet the crew and talk about the work of the lifeboat service.
Highways bosses face being forced to improve road signs in Morpeth, Blyth and across Northumberland. Northumberland MP Sir Alan Beith wants to force them to include better signs to boost tourism in the North East.
The Liberal Democrat MP has put forward legislation in the Commons that would require the Highways Agency and other public authorities to promote tourism by providing or permitting appropriate road signs.
The move comes amid frustration at "obstruction" faced by rural tourist businesses in getting approval for signs, according to Sir Alan.
Fears were voiced last night over the potential impact on the health of elderly and vulnerable people if care chiefs press ahead with controversial plans to close seven day centres in Northumberland.
Relatives of elderly dementia suffers who use the council-run Lyndon Walk day centre in Blyth said they are worried that their conditions will get even worse if they have to uproot themselves and move elsewhere.
Two women told a public meeting in the town that their mothers don't cope well with change, and questioned whether adequate alternative provision will be available if the centre closes.
Children looked skywards as they heard what they thought was the low rumble of thunder in the distance. But they weren't prepared for what they were about to witness.
The pupils at Delaval Middle School, in Blyth, Northumberland, looked on in awe as the Red Arrows performed a stunning flyby.
The event, which took place after lessons this week, was part of the school's celebrations to mark its final year with its 270 pupils.
The school, in Plessey Road, is 97 years old and is due to close completely next summer. From this September, it will only have around 50 pupils.
After July 2010, the school, which used to be Blyth Grammar School, will be demolished under plans to remodel the three-tier education system across the county.
Blyth is to get a wind turbine training tower to help teach the industry's technicians of the future, as more effort is made to make the town the industry's skills centre.
The tower will be built at Northumberland College and assistant principal, Paul Cook, said: "The tower will allow us to increase the number of technicians that can be trained and enhance our reputation as the leading provider of wind energy skills training in the UK.
Blade testing facility at the New and Renewable Energy Centre in Blyth
"The training tower and associated infrastructure includes the necessary internal and external features to deliver training courses as part of Northumberland College's wind technician training."
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