A ram worth £1,000 was the prize on offer in the latest link-up with rural communities by the Newcastle Journal.
Readers had to collect three tokens and answer a simple question to be in with a chance of winning the animal.

Archant Life, the regional and country magazine division of community media publisher Archant has announced the purchase of the entire share capital of French Property News Ltd.
The company publishes the 50,000 circulation monthly French Property News, the market-leading magazine title for French property, and organises French property exhibitions across the country.

The Green 'Un, the Ipswich Evening Star's football edition, is celebrating its 80th anniversary season.
It was originally set up in 1923, when it was known as the Football Star, and more recently has been praised by the Football Association as a good example of what football papers should strive to be.

Staff from the Falkirk Herald are to meet up at a reunion in January.
The event is open to all past and present journalists from the newspaper and anyone interested in taking part can contact former Herald reporter Marjory Kenny at marjory.kenny@edinburgh.gov.uk.

The family of the Bristol Evening Post's chief features writer, David Harrison, who died in July, have presented the city's Southmead Hospital with a bench in his memory.

The Newark Advertiser village correspondent for the Norwell area, Peter Burden, has died.
Peter, (77), who lived in Norwell, reported on village news for more than 20 years.

The Birmingham Evening Mail has stepped in to save the only charity in the world helping sufferers of a painful liver condition.
The Moseley-based Pancreatitis Supporters Network would have folded without a £2,000 donation from the Mail's Charity Trust.

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