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SUSIE WHITE is entranced by the collection of plants in a little-known botanic garden near Newcastle city centre.
ALLAN POTTS explains that some wildlife doesn't just survive wet weather: it has come to rely on heavy rainfall.
North East art historian MARSHALL HALL traces the career and work of the distinguished 20th century horse painter Lionel Hamilton-Renwick
STUART MILLER selects extracts from an account of a tour of Tyneside and south east Northumberland by the Rev John Skinner in 1801.
PHIL HUNTLEY begins a northward journey tracing by-passed segments of the old Great North Road. The first leg takes him from Gosforth to Tritlington, north of Morpeth.
STEVE NEWMAN visits the harbours between the River Tweed and Budle Bay.
VERONICA HEATH welcomes the arrival of a new equestrian training area near Belsay.
JOHN GRUNDY is not surprised by a distinct Scottish influence in many of the county's buildings.
SUSAN BURKE meets Don and Sylvia Clegg, whose championing of the cause of Kielder Forest's red squirrels has achieved international recognition.
SUSIE WHITE explains how important - and how easy - it is to go organic in your garden.
STEWART BONNEY follows the course of a circular walk beginning in the ancient village of Wark.
JOHN STEELE introduces the multi-spined but little-known sea slug.
IAN KERR celebrates the approach of warmer days by profiling his three favourite early wildflowers
ROSALIND KERVEN, author of Northumberland Folk Tales, tells how she rediscovered the county's lost traditional stories.
KARENZA STOREY wonders what caused the demise of a once-thriving village
IAN KER explains why the woodcock is a little.... well, different, from its fellow waders.
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