Locals 'proud' as city named among best to visit
Its coastline is described as "beautiful" by The Guardian newspaper, and residents and visitors agree.
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Its coastline is described as "beautiful" by The Guardian newspaper, and residents and visitors agree.
Last modified on Tue 9 Mar 2021 08.55 EST Tyne and Wear For millions of readers around the world, the image of the country between the mouths of the rivers Tyne and Wear was woven by Catherine Cookson, the region’s most prolific and popular author. Cookson’s was a landscape of collieries, shipyards, rumbling coal trains, sooty-faced kids and the instantly nostalgic tones of pithead silver bands playing Haydn. While fragments of her world remain – mainly in the doughty cheerfulness of the locals – over the past four decades, as heavy industry has receded, a more distant past has emerge...