SINCE we announced in our previous issue the sad news that superb wildlife and landscape photographer Allan Potts is, due to ill health, unable to continue contributing regular articles to The Northumbrian, tributes from readers have poured in.

ANTHONY TOOLE heads for the North Pennines for a walk which passes the county’s last thriving deep coal mine.

It is surprising what one can discover as a result of a moorland walk.

TONY NEWTON looks back at the eventful first decade of activities at Core Music, in Hexham.