Everyone is being encouraged to make the most of the great outdoors this week as an international day celebrates fresh air and exercise.
This Friday, January 20 is Take A Walk Outdoors Day, which aims to promote the virtues of a stroll either alone or with family and friends. Our region boasts a stunning mix of countryside and coast for exercise and recently a UK list of top winter walks featured four in the North East.
But our cities too can prove ideal walking spots. Besides the streets of Newcastle, for instance, the city has on its very doorstep the Town Moor and Jemond Dene - which itself was previously named one of the region's top beauty spots. And now a new survey has named the city as one of the best in the UK for an outdoor walk.
