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JOHN SURGEY embarks on a summer walk linking the seaside at Alnmouth with the riverside at Alnwick.
DEREK PROUD talks about the making of Diary of an Island, a current TV documentary series looking at everyday life on Holy Island.
What to look out for in this summer's Northumberland Art Tour.
PAINTING is now said to be one of the most popular hobbies in the United Kingdom. In towns and villages throughout Northumberland classes and courses are being filled to capacity by enthusiastic amateur painters and complete beginners, many of whom are given inspiration and tuition by artists such as landscape painter Ken Spencer, who talked to STEWART BONNEY about the spread of the art bug.
GRAHAME ANDERSON meets Coquetdale artist Joe Hush and hears how he turned the misfortune of a lost job into a new career opportunity.
PHIL HUNTLEY finds a fleet of buses in the Alnwick area where the vehicles are as much of an attraction as the view along the route.
SUSIE COCHRANE discovers an eco-friendly building material many of us may have overlooked.
IAN KERR pays tribute to one of the bird world's most adaptable species which has learned to profit from human activity, whether we like it or not.
SUSAN BURKE visits Hexham's Old Gaol Museum, where the Black Death is making a comeback after an absence of 500 years.
HEXHAM Abbey, founded by St Wilfrid in the 7th century, has a dual role as a place which attracts many people - drawing 120,000 visitors annually - and the town's parish church of St Andrew.
STEWART BONNEY talked to some of the people whose work suports its function as a place of worship, helps preserve the abbey's historic fabric, and strengthens its link with the local community.
IAN KERR marks the card of the island's now largely forgotten golf course.
SUSIE WHITE visits Herterton House near Cambo, where Frank and Marjorie Lawley's many years of hard work and inspiration have resulted in rave reviews for their garden.
ALLAN POTTS admires the county's drystone walls, and examines the wildlife which depends on them.
DEREK BLAIR explains why the county's drystone walls are the subject of a current survey.
ANTHONY TOOLE walks to the county's largest natural lake which, despite its closeness to Hadrian's Wall, remains little visited.
ALLAN POTTS finds it well worth the wait to observe one of our more camera-shy mammals.
GRAHAME ANDERSON meets a couple whose close escape from the Indian Ocean tsunami prompted a new life in West Allendale.
VERONICA HEATH looks at the work of a charity which offers disabled clients an introduction to horse-drawn transport.
BOOK REVIEWS
by Stewart Bonney, John Watson & Neily Alimohamadi
A TASTE OF NORTHUMBERLAND by Veronica Heath
Geordie Lamb dressed as duck
NEWS VIEW
New TV series visits Kielder
Chirapatre update
Rothbury Music Festival is 30
Off-limits walk at Otterburn
Landfill tax pays for wetland restoration
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