Updated 12:47pm 30 May 2012

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Police meeting at Cheviot Centre in Wooler

PEOPLE in the Wooler area will get the chance to raise local policing issues at a meeting in the town next month.Read

Heritage Open Days- visitors at Sandstell Road fishing shiel in Spittal, Berwick

Northumberland Heritage Open Days event is launched

THE Northumberland Heritage Open Days event has been launched in Newbiggin, with details of 100 attractions across the county that are well worth a visit.Read

15,000 expected at Glendale Show

ONE of the region’s most popular annual country events takers place today.Read

Stuart Nelson, Glendale Show director

Glendale Agricultural Society gears up for big show day

A MIX of traditional livestock classes and some more exotic animals will be among the stars of this year’s Glendale Show. The annual event, on the outskirts of Wooler in Northumberland, has introduced a livestock points competition for the first time.Read

Bike team to try for drop record at Glendale Show

A BIKE display team is to attempt a world record at a Northumberland event later this month.Read

Ian Murray, who will host the 2011 Glendale Agricultural Society stockjudging day, with his championship winning Texel

Show winner to host Glendale stock judging contest

ONE of the championship winners at last year’s Glendale Show will host this year’s stock judging competition for the show organiser.Read

Northern Reaction enterprise facilitator Neil Osborne; Gemma Douglas, Glendale Gateway Trust; Graeme Cooper, Seahouses Development Trust

Workshops for north Northumberland rural entrepreneurs

PEOPLE in rural areas of north Northumberland are being offered help to turn their enterprising ideas into businesses at a serious of workshops being staged next month.Read

Children find out how vegetables grow at Glendale Show

Glendale Show has big presence in community

Thousands of people are expected to visit Glendale Show once again this summer. Iain Laing takes a look at the preparations for what has become the biggest event in north Northumberland’s rural calendar for more than a centuryRead

Pony showing at the Border Union Show

Cross border bicentennial celebrations

BACK in 1813, a group of farming lairds and local dignitaries gathered together in Kelso to form the Border Union Agricultural Society (BUAS). The group, which was chaired by the fifth Duke of Roxburghe, set out 12 resolutions.Read

Kids discover food and farming at Glendale countryside day

CHILDREN from 42 schools in Northumberland and Tyne and Wear will be finding out about farming at next week’s annual Countryside Day.Read

Ghost investigation at Chillingham Castle

GHOST hunters are needed to investigate paranormal activity at a North East attraction later this month.Read

Special entry prices for Northumberland residents

PEOPLE in Northumberland are being invited to take advantage of special entry offers to a range of attractions throughout the county.Read

One-woman show visits Cheviot Centre

AN AWARD-WINNING actor is to perform in Northumberland next month.Read

Return of Roseden Hill Ride

A CHARITY ride, which raises money for the Society of Welfare for Horses and Ponies and the Pony Club, is being run for a second time next month.Read

Folk duo to play at Cheviot Centre

SONGS and tunes from Ireland, Scotland and North East England will fill Wooler’s Cheviot Centre on March 19 when a talented pair of musicians Gareth Davies-Jones and Calum Stewart perform to raise money for Glendale Free Music Festival.Read

Horse show at the Fenton Centre

THE Fenton Centre near Wooler will hold a Clydesdale Heavy Horse show later this year.Read

Question time session at north area meeting

A PUBLIC question time session will be held at 6pm tonight at the start of a meeting of Northumberland County Council’s north area committee. Local people can ask questions at the meeting, which is in Berwick’s William Elder Building.Read

Northumberland Theatre Company is set to premiere and tour 'Star Quality' this March

New play to tour Northumberland

A NORTH East theatre company is blending theatre and music in its new production.Read

Variety show at Glendale Middle School

A COMMUNITY variety show is taking place in Wooler later this month.Read

Burns Night boost for farmers' quiz event

KNOWLEDGE of Scottish poet Robert Burns's work will prove vital to competitors at the annual Glendale Agriculture Society's (GAS) member quiz night.Read