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Best of 2010

  Best of 2010   The team at ne4me has drawn up the best of 2010 in traditional end-of-year style. Categories are theatre, concert, restaurant, pub and sporting event. Contributors include: Paul Tully, Mike Bolam (nufc.com), Rob and Barbara Mason, Michael Hamilton and Anne Graham. Here are our unashamedly biased views in no order of preference.   Theatre: - Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle. It's been going for years but it's been going for years for a reason. A

Northumberland coast at night

Intrepid cameraman Steve Highfield ambles up the rocky road on the wild Northumberland coast in the dark – all in the name of photography Photographer Steve Highfield is one of nature’s night owls, preferring to do his work under cover of darkness.He packed his camera gear and headed to the Northumberland coast taking a range of great shots at dusk, night and dawn. He said: ‘I arrived at Embleton at 3am to a beautifully clear starry sky: Embleton being reasonably remote doesn't suffer from light pollution t

Durham by night - photography tips

Durham – by night owl Photographer Steve Highfield takes a walk on the dark side round Durham City. Like the writer Bill Bryson before him, Steve Highfield took one trip to Durham – and fell in love. That first experience moved the world-famous author (and, later, Chancellor of Durham University) to describe the place as a “perfect little city” in his book Notes from a Small Island. Steve recorded his new-found passion in a different way – on camera. He took the famous views of the cathedral and

A walk on Lindisfarne

The holy land Pictures copyright Graeme Peacock Michael Hamilton returns to a childhood haunt to check out if the magic is still intact I first got my feet on the holy ground of Lindisfarne as a 12-year-old on a week-long visit to the St. Vincent de Paul boys’ camp. This year, on the Holy Island Discovery Trail, I walked in the footsteps of saints again. Driving over the causeway on a day blessed with brilliant sunshine cherished memories of ha