Thirteen years ago, the idyllic Northumberland village was thrust into the limelight as it became the scene of one of the country's biggest ever manhunts.
In the early hours of Saturday July 10 2010, Raoul Moat shot himself on the banks of the River Coquet in Rothbury after a tense stand-off with police. He had fled to the village days earlier after shooting his ex-girlfriend Samantha Stobbart and her new partner Christopher Brown in Birtley, Gateshead; and traffic officer David Rathband, blinding him.
Moat was said to have loved Rothbury and his family even scattered his ashes at a spot there. While the gunman was at large residents saw their usually peaceful streets patrolled by armed police officers while marked vehicles lined their roads.
