Drug dealers caught in the act trying to dispose of £15,000 worth of heroin as police raided the house they were in are today behind bars.
Brian Gallon and John Mark Jardine were arrested as part of a police operation to crack down on Class A drugs pushers.
Officers from Northumbria Police raided a house on Malvins Road, in Blyth on May 21.
Redditch 2, Blyth Spartans 2
Another Paul Brayson brace saw Blyth Spartans pick up a useful point at Redditch United - a result that left manager Mick Tait frustrated.
Blyth, trailing at half-time in the midlands and then ahead in the second half, remain in mid-table unable, so far, to break into the top eight.
Tait believes his side's away record of one win from eight away games should be much better, along with their league placing.
A controversial threat to ban students from a school if their parents flouted parking restrictions is looking increasingly unlikely to ever be carried out.
Bosses at the £30m Bede Primary Academy in South Beach, Blyth, wrote to parents recently warning that their youngsters could be excluded if they fail to comply with controls brought in to protect nearby residents from illegal and nuisance parking near the school.
The Emmanuel Schools Foundation which runs the 630-pupil school, said it was bringing in a 'three strikes and you're out' policy on indiscriminate parking - with pupil expulsion being used as an ultimate sanction.
Peoples Millions presented at 2.30pm today a cheque for £49.290 to Blyth Star Enterprises, a mental health charity in Blyth.
Presented by ITV'S Helen Ford to Gordon Moore and Stephen Mcteer of Blyth Star (photo).
Chief executive Gordon Moore said '' We were blown away by the support and votes we received.
Two gas engineers from Northumberland have won praise for their efforts in flood-hit Cumbria.
Kevin Knox from Berwick and Brian Illingworth from Blyth work for United Utilities on behalf of Northern Gas Networks.
Their normal operating area covers Tyneside and Northumberland but they were asked to assist Cumbrian colleagues.
A community sports day will be held in Blyth tomorrow as part of a project to forge links between local residents and police.
The town's neighbourhood policing team has joined forces with local sports clubs and organisations to organise the free event.
It will be held at the Briardale Centre on Briardale Road from 10am to 4pm. People of all ages are welcome to come along and take part in workshops and demonstrations.
There's no one quite like grandma... That's why they are being invited back into the classroom to pass on traditional skills to their grandchildren.
Grandmas are joining girls and boys at Bede Academy, in Blyth, each week to create festive treats.
The five-week project is the idea of Mary Burnett, head of food and nutrition at the school.
She said: "We have a wonderful resource here and we want to involve the community as much as possible.
Courageous Alan Bainbridge has been nominated for a bravery award for "keeping his smile" through gruelling cancer treatment.
While the 15-year-old's friends are out playing football or socialising together, Alan is having chemotherapy to treat a life-threatening cancer.
The teenager, of Blyth, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) in May last year after complaining about feeling unwell and suffering severe pains in his legs.
The fast-growing North East alternative energy sector has been given a further £2m to encourage businesses to develop ground-breaking products.
Blyth's New and Renewable Energy Centre (Narec) will benefit from the additional cash and it says it hopes some of the money will be used to attract hi-tech energy companies into the area from the across the UK and the rest of the world.
Narec hopes the cash, £1.49m from regional development agency One North East and £502,000 the European Union, will assist over 100 companies and help create 40 jobs in this sector.
A cancer sufferer has slammed the Government for failing to approve a life-prolonging drug.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) rejected Avastin as a treatment for bowel cancer in a draft recommendation yesterday.
The drug, which costs about £1,800 a month, has been shown to shrink tumours in 78% of patients when it is added to other chemotherapy drugs.
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