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JOHN GRUNDY recalls his earlier visits to four of east Tynedale's grander residences.

ALISTAIR COCHRANE meets Holy Island artist John Fieldhouse and his wife Kerry, the island schoolteacher.
IAN KERR reminds us that it's not all peace and quiet among the county's wildlife population.
SUSIE WHITE visits Paul Procter at his garden in Greystones, in Allendale.

PHIL HUNTLEY concludes his journey up the old Great North Road, stopping off at places which have now been by-passed.
JILL HARRISON looks at how the county has provided inspiration for the works of author John Gaskin.
DUNCAN HUTT sees how the recently created nature reserve at East Chevington has begun to flourish
SUSIE WHITE explains how Chesters Walled Garden has developed over the last 20 years
North East art historian MARSHALL HALL reveals why the great Northumbrian wood engraver Thomas Bewick was so fond of illustrating angling.
STEWART BONNEY visits our most spectacular Iron Age hillfort.

VERONIC HEATH meets the Cramlington woman who has championed the cause of ferret welfare in the county.
ALLAN POTTS enjoys the rich variety of early wildflowers in our deciduous woodlands.
PHIL HUNTLEY finds a link between Craster and a chapter in British Imperial history.
SUSAN BURKE looks at efforts to tempt the black grouse back to the Kielder area.

GLEN LYNDON DODDS describes what life was like in Northumberland during the Middles ages.
A TASTE OF NORTHUMBERLAND
"Fish shop" fish and chips & Fishcakes
NEWS VIEW
Mountain biking for Kielder
Northumberland County Show is 25
Follow the Jacobite Trail guide
Chirapatre update
READERS' LETTERS
BOOK REVIEWS by John Watson
WHATS ON GUIDE