What stories made Hexham Courant headlines over the years

10 years ago 

FIRE: Fire crews were called to Prudhoe Waterworld after a small fire in an air conditioning unit. The alarm was triggered after midday and was believed to have been caused by an electrical fault.

Robson Green had a book signing at Waterstones in Hexham in 2013, with lead bookseller Glynis Allen (Image: Newsquest)

BAR NONE: A Tynedale enterprise was named the top young business in the Northeast. Health and social care specialist Annie Barr Associates in Bywell made the national final of the Local Business Accelerators competition. 

25 years ago

CRACKDOWN: Mounted police patrols were the latest method used to crackdown on drug offences in Hexham. Police horses can sweep shrubbery areas quickly and give riders a high-level view.

CONFISCATED: Four youths had cans of beer taken off them by police as part of a crackdown on juvenile misbehaviour in Hexham. 

SPOT CHECKS: Police announced they would target young drivers using the streets of Corbridge and Hexham as a race track. Police devised Operation Dash, with officers in unmarked police cars monitoring well-known hotspots in the area.

FLAT PLANS: Prudhoe Town Council welcomed plans to turn what was the biggest eyesore into a new landscaped area with 12 flats.

50 years ago

BYPASS: Plans for Hexham and Corbridge's bypass road finally got the go-ahead by transport minister John Peyton.

DATE: Up-and-coming Northeast pop group Geordie guest starred at a barbecue held by Blanchland Leek Club.

75 years ago

DISSOLVED: Hexham Library Committee, founded two years earlier by the Workers' Educational Association's branch, decided it had fulfilled its purpose and offered its books to the county council's libraries department.

SAVED: Bellingham Rural District Council called on the county council to rethink its decision not to allow sheep grids to be fitted on roads in the North Tyne Valley. Without grids, the high death toll of sheep wandering into roads there would continue to rise, it said.

FITTED: A war memorial in the form of a font was unveiled at Hexham Presbyterian Church to remember five worshippers killed there during World War II.

100 years ago

CRASH: Cyclist Joseph Maddison, a fitter and engineer from Ovington, died after colliding with a car near Corbridge.

TOP COP: Thomas Appleby, former deputy chief constable of Northumbria's police force, died at age 70 near Hexham.

DANGER: Calls were made for the widening of the bridge over the River Tyne at Corbridge after drivers raced over it at speeds over 20mph.

125 years ago

FATAL: Three men died in an accident at Redesdale's Catcleugh waterworks. Thomas Henderson of Haydon Bridge, and George Herbert and Thomas Raymond, both from the south of England, died after a lift cage they were descending in came loose and fell 60ft to the bottom of the shaft.

WHISKY: Joseph Robinson, landlord at Shotley Low Quarter's Manor House Inn, was fined 10 shillings for selling watered-down whisky.   

150 years ago

BIRTHDAY: Approximately 160 people turned out to celebrate the fourth anniversary of Kirkwhelpington Free Methodist Church.