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Bright yellow balloons were released into the sky today in memory of tragic transplant teenager Leanne Nicholson.
The bubbly 19-year-old, of Choppington, in Northumberland, died a year ago today after her body rejected a second donor heart.
Leanne became one of only five youngsters in more than 20 years to have two heart swaps at the Freeman Hospital, in Newcastle, first in 2002 and again in 2008.
Hundreds more council jobs are set to be axed in Northumberland as town hall bosses seek a further ã40m in budget savings over the next year.
Up to 1,000 posts in the county council's 7,000-strong workforce are potentially at risk - on top of around 1,300 which have been shed over the last two years.
A two-week trawl for further voluntary redundancy applications was launched yesterday, after employees were briefed by their department heads about the latest budget cuts facing the unitary authority.



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