SUSIE WHITE looks back on 2018, a year in which extremes of weather set the gardener a series of stiff tests, but yielded rich returns of fruit and flowers.

BRUCE FERGUSON continues his exploration of the wildlife, nature and cultural associations of Northumberland’s forests and woodlands, this time visiting Thrunton Woods.

JOHN GRUNDY discovers historical links between an early Northumbrian saint and a cathedral city more than 300 miles away in West Sussex.