A BUTCHERS in Rothbury has tasted success in a national competition.
Rothbury Family Butchers has come out on top in two categories of the BPEX Foodservice Pork Sausage of the Year Competition.
One of its wins was in the keenly contested traditional pork sausage category, entered by all 400 competition participants, with the other in the sweet chilli sausage section.
Update on activities from Dr Thomlinson School, Rothbury:
Year 7 Archaeological Day
Year 7 recently spent a day learning about the work of an Archaeologist as part of their History Syllabus. Pupils undertook their own indoor digs to discover many hidden treasures. A great deal of care was shown to correctly uncover, clean, label, store and identify their finds.
Thanks to the PTA for helping with the funding for this exciting day.
Latest Style Updates
A few more changes have taken place over the last few months as part of our ongoing plan to keep our school looking good:
- The Dining Hall was cleared, repainted and the floor again polished beautifully.
- The front steps were removed to create a smooth approach for everyone.
- PTA installed a traversing wall for the pupils in the outdoor Green Gym. Other additions due shortly.
- The Crow's Lookout Post has been cleared, re-plastered, re-painted and re-carpeted to create a new cloakroom area.
Young people are being targeting in a hard-hitting campaign to reduce the number of bonfire and firework-related injuries across Northumberland.
Fireworks injure almost 1000 children in the North of England every year, often resulting in permanent scarring or disfiguration. Now Northumberland Fire and Rescue Service is warning pupils in secondary schools about the dangers in a programme of educational visits.
FREE bus transport for older students is set to leave Northumberland County Council with a £500,000 bill. But councillors last night hailed the scheme to provide passes for A-level and college students as a massive success - and said it was likely to cost much less than feared.
The free pass has seen the number of teenagers using buses more than double, from 800 in July to 1,850 now. The county council took the decision to scrap fares after they rose to £360 a year under the previous Labour administration.
Landmark locations across Northumberland will be seen in a new light this winter with the return of a hugely popular winter festival.
Northumberland Lights - and the award-winning team behind it - are back with more bright ideas for outdoor illuminations.
From November 2 to 30, the winter festival will bathe some of the most beautiful and remote spots from Blyth to the Borders in an array of colour, in celebration of the county's contrasting architectural and natural environment.
ONE of Northumberland's best-known buildings is the latest to be recreated in a series of collectable models.
Lilliput Lane, based near Penrith in Cumbria, has added Cragside and its iron bridge near Rothbury to its range of pottery products.
The model of the National Trust house has been created by Sunderland University graduate Phoebe Harvey, who also produced Lilliput's model of St Mary's Island and the lighthouse at Whitley Bay.
A PUPPET Theatre Company is to perform in Rothbury.
The Lempen Puppet Theatre Company are performing their show The Journey of Turtle at the Jubilee Institute in Rothbury on Sunday, December 7 at 3pm.
The show is part of the Highlights Rural Touring Scheme season.
Tickets are available from Tully's of Rothbury. Tickets and further information can also be obtained from Sandra (01669) 620564 or Margaret (01669) 620082.
Dr Thomlinson's Middle School in Rothbury have been enjoying a whole week of China-themed activities.
The whole school celebrated an entire week off timetable to explore and investigate a wide variety of exciting projects around the theme of China. A variety of outside professional artists worked with the teachers and pupils on themes including:
A young woman fell nearly 30ft from a rock face while climbing in Northumberland.
The 20-year-old had been part of a group scaling Kyloe Crag, near Cragside, Rothbury, when the accident happened at around 1.15pm yesterday.
She was airlifted to Wansbeck General Hospital by the Great North Air Ambulance with suspected spinal injuries.
Police were called to the scene and a team from Northumberland National Park Mountain Rescue Team was also launched.
A TINY rural Northumberland community could end up completely surrounded by wind farms.
The hamlet of Wingates, near Rothbury, is faced with five schemes which are either at scoping or pre-application stage, all within 5km of the houses.
The 22-home community, which was an estate village up until the 1960s, fears the proposals would ruin the uninterrupted views of open countryside, which include Simonside hill and Northumberland National Park.
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Click here to read the new edition of Your Place, incorporating Northumberland County Council's Your County magazine. The magazine can be picked up at Phillips Newsagents, Rothbury.
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