Surf spectacular
National championship at Druridge Bay
A Dog's life
We have the best dog beaches - it's official!
Affordable housing
Dreaming of your own house?
Deer Ambler
Spring surprise
Everybody's talking
Community forum promotes our interests
Hedging bets
Doing what comes naturally
Saving wildlife
Making a river change its mind
RNLI station shop
Spend money and save lives
Amble slimmers
Get thin and save lives
Editorial
Supermarket snags and what's in this "life saving" issue.
Have your say
Letters and email, including photos
Improving Queen Street
Grants can give you an uplift
National 'Elf
Dress up as an elf and save lives
Veggie basket scheme
Disadvantaged people help community
Neighbourhood watch
Keeping an eye on your neighbours
Coquet High School Partnership
Expected drop in pupil numbers
Women's house building project
The house that Jill built
Artograffi
Easter fun
David's Diary
News from Amble Development Trust
Town council report
News update from the Town Council
Confessions of an addict
Harry gives up the weed
Age Concern Northumberland
...need people who are concerned
Chinese freeze affects Welfare
Snow stops take-away
Child Trust Fund
Invest in your child's future
Penny
New year Resolutions
Amble Churches Together
Thoughts for New Year
County Councillors report
Future developments
A tale of two thefts
You have been warned
The Peer Mentors
Students help each other
Residents get the hump over bumps
Calming the traffic?
Dirty wellies in a wine bar
Rural romance
Small skinny latte
Toddlers make their own coffee shop
Poetry corner
Safe to shore
Paddlers Paradise
New look play area
Snippets...
Local food, recycling, school numbers, welfare update
What's On
Including live music, Easter services, volunteering at Warkworth Castle and more. Greetings from Aglaia
Message from a tall ship
Ray King column
Kevin Keegan takes over. "We all eagerly await" |
Safe to Shore
This dark and stormy violent sea
That beats upon the shore
Driven by a North East wind
That chills your mortal core
Then washed away the golden dunes
Now gone for evermore
Brings death to man and bird and beast
And fear from hells own door
Black rolling waves that crush the land
And pound the beach with power
Unleashed by natures forces
That makes man shrink and cower
And fishermen fear, for life and limb
When tossed by wind and wave
They pray that god in heaven above
Their lives and souls will save
And Seamen know the sea is cruel
And shows no man fear or pity
No shelter here of brick and stone
At home in town or city
She crushes steel and wood and bone
Then drives them neath the water
And makes a widow of a wife
An orphan of a daughter
Yet still the call to sea is strong
And man must heed that call
To sail to far and distant lands
In ships both large and small
Or cast his nets to catch the fish
As others have before
And hope the sea - his mistress
Shall bring him safe to shore.
Matt Donoghue
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