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Puffin Festival
The town of Amble in Northumberland has just got a grant to stage a Puffin Festival. Portrait of a puffin by Keith Marshall What a charming idea. The first ever Puffin Festival in Amble will take place...
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Mick Oxley and the Magic of the Sea part II
Artist Mick Oxley writes … Surrendering to using the wheelchair liberated me and allowed me to travel away from the house. One of my first journeys in 1999 was to the local village hall where there was...
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Saint Cuthbert and the seabirds
On Thursday 8th August, I saw the Lindisfarne Gospels up in Durham – as near to their original home with as the British Library will let them go. This amazing book of four gospels dates from the 10th...
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A castle on the coast
Many years ago I fell in love with a TV series called Robin of Sherwood. Created by the late, great Richard Carpenter, it was a beautifully shot, mystical, pagan, and haunting interpretation of the...
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Sea coal
Recording a north-eastern tradition of gathering sea-coal. Commercial Sea Coal collecting using old army vehicles. The coal is gathered, taken to a yard where sand and other items are removed and it is...
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