What were you doing 30 years ago, when the first issue of The Northumbrian hit the news-stands? JOHN GRUNDY harks back to his days of listing buildings.

GLEN LYNDON DODDS looks at how Northumberland fared in the decades which followed the Norman invasion of 1066.

SUSIE WHITE visits Callaly Walled Garden, near Rothbury, the transformation of which has provided a project for retired MP Chris Mullin and his wife Ngoc.