After her previous sell-out shows, North East entertainment legend Leah returns to the Phoenix with her feel-good show Rock, Roll and Remember.

Remember the fashion, the fun and the music, from crepe sole shoes and drape jackets to miniskirts and beehive hairdos?

Rock, Roll and Remember has fun in the Fabulous Fifties, swings through the sensational Sixties and glides through the Glam Rock era.

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.

Pudsey will do the honours by illuminating the display in Blyth town centre on Friday.

The switch-on will take place in the Market Place at 5.30pm, with entertainment for youngsters and their parents starting at 4.45pm.

A street collection for the Children In Need appeal will be taken by members of the local 1000 Squadron Air Training Corps, and festive carols will be sung by pupils from the town's schools.

Blyth Market, which will be held all day on Friday, will also be staying open late so that more people can take advantage of the shopping opportunities.

The Christmas lighting display and ceremony has involved Blyth Town Council, the BBC, the county council and Blyth Valley Arts and Leisure Ltd.

The Blyth All Weather Lifeboat Constitution is inviting people to join them onboard the Abbie Deans Spirit of Blyth and Wansbeck Rescue Vessel for a trip up the river.

Keen sailors and members of the public will be able to talk to the crew and volunteers and explore the facilities at the events.

Blyth Community Forum- Thursday 26 November 2009, 6:30 pm at the Buffalo Community Centre, Regent Street, Blyth

The two-hour sponsored aerobic workouts will be led by qualified instructors across 70 leisure centres in the North East and Yorkshire.

Ashington Leisure Centre, Blyth Sports Centre, Concordia Leisure Centre and Newbiggin Sports and Community Centre are all taking part in this great fundraising event.

The Aerobathon event aims to raise over £90,000 for the Child's Voice Appeal - a helpline for adults concerned about a child.

Derek, 34, from Red Row, is getting ready for a mammoth fundraising effort where he will play seven consecutive 12-hour gigs in seven Northumberland pubs.

Primarily a singer, he has no backing group and is frantically learning the guitar before the gig, which starts today.

Lives Worth Living will be performed by the Blyth-based Headway Arts group and is free to schools which want to host it.

The production stars actor Kris Brown, who is himself learning disabled and a wheelchair user, alongside fellow actor Steve Byron.

Loosely based on Shakespeare's The Tempest, it is bursting at the seams with red hot hits.

They include Good Vibrations, Monster Mash, Great Balls Of Fire, It's A Man's World and Hey Mister Spaceman.

The dates and venues are as follows:

Blyth Community Forum
Wednesday 30 September 2009, 6:30 pm at Blyth Community Enterprise Centre

It is part of the Marine Conservation Society's National Beachwatch weekend, and volunteers are asked to meet at Fort House education resource centre at 10am.

They will carry out a survey of beach litter as they clean it up, with the results used by the Society to lobby for a reduction in the amount of rubbish scarring the coastline.

For information contact warden Arthur Cranson on (01670) 797323.

Members of the Blyth Music and Theatre Company will perform a collection of great songs from hit musical productions which it has staged in its home town over the last half century.

The 50th Anniversary Show - to be held in the Phoenix Theatre tomorrow , Saturday and Sunday - will feature songs from musicals such as South Pacific, Annie, Oklahoma (pictured), The Sound of Music, Calamity Jane and My Fair Lady.

The county's updated Flood Action Plan addresses past, present and future responses to flooding.

Extensive public consultation on the document starts on September 7, which is exactly a year after the flooding catastrophe in Morpeth which left 1,000 homes and businesses under water.

Blyth Battery - which is considered one of the most complete examples of a coastal defence battery in eastern Britain - has been revitalised as a visitor and education complex following a £525,000 investment.

Colin Durward, chairman of the Blyth Battery Volunteers, in Home Guard uniform

Cash from the Heritage Lottery Fund, English Heritage and Blyth Valley Council was used to revamp the crumbling structures, which include a searchlight tower, gun emplacements, a magazine block, observation posts, a rangefinder tower and an engine house.

The North East stage starts at Darlington and heads through Durham, Northumberland and Tyneside, finishing at Baltic Square in Gateshead.

Hugh Roberts, chief executive of the Tour of Britain, said: "We are extremely pleased to be bringing the 2009 Tour of Britain back to the North East for a second time.