Lunch for 30,000
Dec 12 2006 By The Journal
School meals staff in Northumberland are gearing up to cook festive lunches for 30,000 pupils.
They will be cooking 1,680 kilos of turkey, 1,800 kilos of sprouts and 750 kilos of Christmas pudding.
Duncan Johnson, head of facilities for Northumberland County Council, said: "It's a mammoth task but it wouldn't be Christmas without the annual festive lunch."
New graduates
THE first university-accredited trainee paramedics have graduated in the North-East Ambulance Service.
Eighteen students passed an intensive nine-week residential course at the service's training college in Morpeth.
It is the first course that has been accredited by Teesside University and NEAS said it marked the "rising professional status of paramedics".
Online debate
A COUNCIL debate on the proposed reorganisation of schools in Blyth will be the subject of a live online webcast at 7.30pm on Thursday night. People can watch and listen from the comfort of their own home by logging on to the borough council's website www.blythvalley.gov.uk and following the live broadcast prompts.
Calendar aid
WEAR Valley District Council chairman Eddie Murphy has launched a calendar featuring pubs of the Wear Valley and every copy sold will raise money for the Crook and District Parent Carers Association charity, which helps the parents of disabled children.
