Whickham Golf Club is getting ready to host its popular pro-am tournament on Friday 24 May thanks to local business sponsorship.

Gateshead-based Hadrian Healthcare Group, which owns The Manor House care home in Whickham, is sponsoring the tournament for the second year running and has also sponsored the first tee sign, leader board, tee fencing and scorecards.

The first person to move into a Barnard Castle care home has become their first resident to celebrate a 100th birthday.

Annie Atkinson, who lives in the Manor House Care Home, was 100 on May 3. The centenarian, who has three children, 13 grand-children and 15 great grand-children, was the first person to move into the home when it opened in December, 2009.

A Northumbria University academic has joined forces with a care home company to analyse and optimise their menus for each season.

Registered nutritionist Carole Marshall is working with Hadrian Healthcare Group in a year-long project led by executive chef Simon Lawrence and operational support manager Karen Brimble.

Hadrian Healthcare Group’s new £6 million luxury care development in Wetherby has opened.

Wetherby Manor is the company’s ninth care home in the north of England. Hadrian Healthcare Group has invested over £50 million in the care sector since 2008, employs over 650 people and holds the Investors in People Silver award.

Mrs Ella Neale is going back in time with volunteers from Groundwork North East in a project to recognise the work of the ‘lumberjills’ during the second world war.

When men working for the Forestry Commission were called up to join the forces in 1939, young women were recruited to fill their jobs through the Women’s Land Army. The specialist Women’s Timber Corp was formed in 1942. They were posted across the country to the working forest areas.