Photograpgh by terencewalsh.co.uk

The local council have given the town an early Christmas gift this year.

The council is trying to encourage people to shop locally and support our local businesses inHexham.

FREE PARKING -Dec 19th to the 24th 9-11am & 3-5pm

Parking will be free all day on Sunday 18 December in the three town centres council car parks. There will be free parking between 9 and 11am and 3 and 5pm from Monday 19 to Christmas Eve.

Local business woman Sarah Walsh of B & C Gifts said ” This is excellent news for Hexham, the Council are seen positively helping our local traders. Hexham is magical at Christmas, the Sele and Baumont St just look amazing with the Christmas lights up, our little ones just love it”.

Members choose what they want to do – including art, music, gardening, leatherwork or woodwork – and pay £10 for a tutored session with support from volunteers. Family members or friends can join in, or grab some guilt-free time to themselves. There are trips and singing sessions too. Chrysalis is for anyone in Northumberland who has memory problems and is able to enjoy activities.

Check out thier website at www.chrysalis-tynedale.org.uk

‘We create bespoke, handmade pet portraits using either our customers own photos, or photos that we take during one of our professional pet photo shoots’.

When you visit pets in portraits, view the gallery of pet portraits and choose the style of portrait that you would like. You can then order your pet portrait using either option 1 or option 2. Our portraits are mounted on beautiful luxury paper, or mounted on fine canvas and delivered to your door ready to be hung on your wall.

Option 1

Have you taken a picture of your pet that you love? Let us use your photo to design a unique pet portrait. Simply send us your photos via email or post. It takes us ten days from receiving your photos to you hanging your canvas or framed portrait on your wall. They also make original and surprisingly affordable gifts.

Option 2

Book a professional photo session with us and we will come to a location of your choice and photograph your pet. Select your favourite photos from the session and we will use them to design a stunning pet portrait printed on luxury paper, or mounted on canvas. You will also receive a free DVD of all the photos from your session.

From ordering to delivery of your pet portrait takes less than ten days and prices start from just £34.50. So send us a photo of your favourite pet and sit back and wait for your beautiful portrait to be delivered.

You can view pets in portraits www.petsinportraits.co.uk

A new and innovative speech and language therapy practice has just opened its doors to clients in Northumberland and Newcastle upon Tyne.  Language Matters is run by speech and language therapist, Sarah Squires, who provides therapy to clients in their own home, school or workplace, or from her clinic in Ponteland.

With appointments scheduled to fit in with your requirements, and the provision of intensive or longer-term support available, Language Matters offers a dedicated and bespoke service to meet your communication needs.  Specialist advice, assessment and therapy is offered to pre-school and school age children, young people and adults in the following areas:

• Stammering/dysfluency
• Problems in reading, writing, spelling and dyslexia
• Children’s language development
• Voice disorders

Whether you would like advice and support with a longstanding problem, or it is a new issue, please call for a friendly and informal chat to discuss your language needs.

You can visit sarahs new website at : www.language-matters.co.uk

Hexham Fun Fair

Slaters travelling  fun fair is now at the Mart down in Tyne Green.

A great little fare, brilliant for the little ones. Lot’s of gentle little rides for the smaller kids as well as a good selection of  stomach turning rides for the bigger kids.

The fair will be down at hexham Auction Mart  till the 22 nd of  October.

One good tip is to get a copy of the HexhamCourant , look at the back page of the second supplement and cut out the advert. Each advert has ten ride tokens, each token saving you 50p off the £1.50 price per ride.

We went down on Sunday late afternoon, thinking that the parking on the Tyne Green would rammed we opted to park in Tesco’s, as it turned out there was plenty of room to part so need need to trek over the bridge.

Be Careful!

The ground has been covered in some rather rough hardcore stone, some of the lumps are more than big enough to stub a toe or buckle a push chair wheel.

Sarah has listening to her web customers feedback and updated her service to suit. Updates include a quicker turnaround time from order to delivery in just 10 days, a new choice of three different frame colours and a better online gallery to show the products in more detail.

Personalised gifts for children

How It All Started

” I showed this prototype to my sister who thought it was fantastic. As it happened her workplace were promoting local businesses led by women. After a few nervous jitters I entered a few of our framed names into the exhibition. They went down a storm and we received our very first order within an hour of showing our designs to the general public.

Framed Names - Childrens Gifts

Meanwhile I’d also taken the picture to a local mum’s group and got a great response and so it began! Since then we’ve had requests from all over the UK and it’s brilliant to think my pictures are happily hanging in children’s rooms all over the country.

As well as the handmade framed names, we also expanded to include handmade pictures to decorate children’s rooms.” Sarah Walsh – www.framednames.co.uk

Spook Night Hexham

Spook Night will be making a Halloween return to Beaumont St this year.  After last years success it’s definitely not to be missed!

A family based evening of entertainment and fun, with many attractions including fairground rides, hot and cold food including Blood Soup and Spooky Sausages, laser light show, spooky music, street entertainers, fancy dress competition and much, much more. Free entry.

” Our little ones loved the spooky fare rides last year, we’ll definitely be there again this year ” Sarah – framednames.co.uk

Although osteopaths treat many conditions, most people think of them as ‘back specialists’. Back pain is what many osteopaths treat a lot of the time.

Osteopathic treatment does not target symptoms only but treats the parts of the body that have caused the symptoms. Osteopaths have a holistic approach and believe that your whole body will work well if your body is in good structural balance.

Imagine, for example, a car that has one of its front wheels not quite pointing straight. It may run well for a while, but after a few thousand miles, the tyre will wear out. You can apply this example to the human body, which is why it is so important to keep the body in good balance.

The new Gelson Osteopathic website was designed by local design firm www.twda.co.uk based in Hexham.

Gelsons Osteopathic, Corbridge

“When we were approached to redesign the Gelson Osteopathic website we were eager to produce a design that really suited the clinic, a web design that was professional, friendly and trustworthy.  The clients response to the new design was great, a real pleasure to work with!  “ – Terence Walsh – TWDA.co.uk

Hair by Jobi

Working with hair for 40 years!

Jobi & Co. founded 1990 and located in  Hexham  since 1998.

Never one to miss a good deal Jobi had heard about the £375 Starter pack offered by “Hexham Card” & TWDA as part of the local initiative to get Hexham based businesses online.

“Terry (TWDA) just made the whole thing so easy! I’m by no means a computer person and had been slightly nervous about computer speak and being over charged. But via Hexhamcard Terry came in with a great price, came up with a great design, arranged a photo shoot and even gave advice about using our customer list to create a newsletter to encourage customers into the salon. I’d be more than happy to recommend TWDA!”  -  Jobi, Director

visit the new site : www.hairbyjobi.co.uk

Jobi & Co. | Hair Salon – Hexham

Enjoy this luxurious, value for money experience. Once you have tried it you will never want to go anywhere else.
Jobi says “ What we offer in the Salon is “maintenance free hairdressing” which simply means when hair is cut with absolute precision the style looks after itself. Our aim is to give the Clients the hair they want and can confidently manage.”