WE looked back through our archives to find out what made headline news up to 150 years ago.

10 years ago 

HEALTH CONCERNS: Residents living near the SCA site in Prudhoe raised concerns over plans to install a controversial waste-fired power plant at the paper mill.

NATION'S BEST: A Stocksfield healthcare training specialist, Annie Barr Associates, was the North of England winner in the Local Business Accelerators initiative.

REJECTED: The protests of more than 150 objectors were ignored when a controversial housing planning application was approved in Corbridge to build 54 houses on two sites. 

WALKOUT: Two senior councillors walked out on Haltwhistle Town Council after a row over the maintenance of popular beauty spot, Haltwhistle Burn.

25 years ago

QUIT: Kirkley College principal, Dr Joanna Martin, resigned suddenly from her post. 

GREEN LIGHT: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust announced it was going ahead with the long-awaited redevelopment of Hexham General Hospital.

MEADOW: Pupils from the Haltwhistle area joined forces to create a flower meadow in the town. Pupils from Henshaw, Greenhead, Haltwhistle, and Herdley Bank participated.

Hexham Courant: Henshaw pupils with teachers Caroline Thompson and Elizabeth Scott Henshaw pupils with teachers Caroline Thompson and Elizabeth Scott (Image: Newsquest)

ANNIVERSARY: Hexham's Queen Elizabeth High School launched a £350,000 appeal to mark its 400-year anniversary, spending the money on improving its science, computing and community learning facilities.  

ON TARGET: Ponteland Parish Council did not oppose plans of Alan Shearer, Newcastle United striker, to extend his new Darras Hall property.

50 years ago

EXOTIC: Dontino's nightclub began holding stag nights featuring exotic dancers. The entertainment was introduced to meet public demand, said then club boss Donalde Adamo.

THEFT: 400 yards of electric fencing were stolen from Cronkley Farm at Kiln Pit Hill.

ON THE MOVE: Hexham's Cubs and Scouts were on the lookout for a new home as they were faced with having to quit the temporary premises they took up on Hallstile Bank.

75 years ago

HOLLYWOOD: Margaret Lockwood's film The White Unicorn was on show at the Forum Cinema in Hexham.

CHANGE: Hexham's shop assistants called on the town's traders to close half-day on Saturday rather than Thursday, as they wanted Saturday afternoons off and Thursdays were more popular with shoppers according to the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers' Hexham branch.

100 years ago

LEAD DEAL: Allendale's disused lead mines, formerly responsible for a quarter of England's lead output, were taken over by the Weardale Lead Company. 

ORGAN EVENT:  A new organ was installed at the private chapel in Stagshaw.

MILKMAN FINED: Mickley dairyman Hugh Metcalfe, of the village's Low Row, was fined £10 by Hexham magistrates for selling watered-down milk. 

125 years ago

LIMESTONE BRAE BREAK-IN: A greengrocer's shop at Limestone Brae in the West Allen Valley was broken into and 8oz of tobacco was stolen. 

150 years ago

TOP GLASS: Six new stained glass windows were fitted at Hexham Abbey.

DEATH TOLL MOUNTS: A 20-year-old woman called Miss Shanks died after being bit by a rabid dog at her home near Kirkwhelpington. This was the second hydrophobia fatality in the district within three weeks.

MOURNED: One of Tynedale's oldest inhabitants, Mary Armstrong of Hexham, died aged 100.