This week's dip into the Journal's photographic archives has uncovered pictures of Amble from the 20th century.

Almost £5m of funding is to be made available to help repair roads damaged by flooding in Northumberland.

Transport minister Sadiq Khan has announced a £2.6m cash injection, which will allow repairs to be carried out to three bridges in the county - Allenmill Bridge near Allendale, the Lion Bridge at Alnwick and the Black Bridge footbridge at Warkworth.

It will also fund repair work at 13 landslip sites and 110 other maintenance schemes.

More than 2,000 female council workers in Northumberland are set for payouts after agreement was finally reached to settle a long-running, £50m equal pay claim.

Women county council employees such as cleaners, kitchen assistants and carers are in line for the compensation payments as a result of being underpaid for years in comparison to male colleagues who earned bonuses.

Northumberland County Council is the last local authority in the North East to settle its equal pay dispute with the GMB and Unison - and defended its case as far as an Employment Tribunal scheduled for earlier this month.

Farmers in north Northumberland and the Borders have been picking up tips on using their water effectively to guard against potential supply problems that are expected in the future.

The combined effects of climate change, rising demand for water, increased regulation and the possibility of droughts are all factors that are expected to have an impact on agriculture in years to come.

The UK's top irrigation specialists met invited farmers last Friday at an event focusing on practical irrigation, which looked at efficient water management, coping with climate change and how to successfully negotiate future water supply contracts.

Hundreds of people who use council-run day centres in Northumberland face a three-month wait to find out whether they can be saved.

A series of public meetings on the future of the threatened centres in Amble, Bedlington, Blyth, Hexham, Haltwhistle, Ponteland and Prudhoe - which are used by 370 people a week - has now been completed, and final decisions will be taken in September.

Further private meetings will be held with individual centre users and their families, and feedback from the public consultation analysed, before reports setting out the various options are presented to county councillors.

This is first picture of murder victim Lee Matthewson from Amble. The 21-year-old was stabbed to death during a disturbance on Bolam Road, in Ashington, on Monday.

Emergency services were called to the street during the early hours of the morning, following reports of an altercation.

Mr Matthewson was taken to Wansbeck District Hospital, but he was pronounced dead at around 5.45am.

Fears were voiced last night over the potential impact on the health of elderly and vulnerable people if care chiefs press ahead with controversial plans to close seven day centres in Northumberland.

Relatives of elderly dementia suffers who use the council-run Lyndon Walk day centre in Blyth said they are worried that their conditions will get even worse if they have to uproot themselves and move elsewhere.

Two women told a public meeting in the town that their mothers don't cope well with change, and questioned whether adequate alternative provision will be available if the centre closes.

A savage home invader who launched a terrifying hammer attack on a disabled ex-chaplain and his wife was last night beginning an indefinite sentence behind bars.

Drug addict Christopher Stevenson (pictured)- a serial offender free on a suspended sentence - targeted David and Elizabeth Swales as they returned from a Bible reading class at their church.

He forced his way into the couple's retirement home in Amble, warning he had come for their money.

Fans of Northumberland's coastline can hear a talk by a conservation expert.

Mel Nicholls, the county's Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Officer, is an experienced botanist and zoologist, and will speak about the flora, fauna, bird and marine life along the coast from Scremerston to Amble.

The area, covering 39 miles of coastline from Berwick to the Coquet estuary, boasts some of the most dramatic coastal scenery in the country.

The beautiful architecture of Coquet Lighthouse is the subject of this photo sent in by Richard Hannam of Prudhoe.