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Glowering skies notwithstanding, it’s impossible to watch even the most grisly case without longing to visit Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, where the show is filmed, and take a tour of Lindisfarne Island, Alnmouth and Amble, Corbridge and Hadrian’s Wall.

Among the images are a silver penny minted in York, Lindisfarne Priory in Northumberland and an iron, silver and copper sword found in London.

"On the sides is a spiral pattern recognisable from the Book of Kells or Lindisfarne Gospel," she said.

In 2021 she was winner of the Lindisfarne's Alan Hull Award for her songwriting, which prompted the music industry to sit up and start paying attention to this up-and-coming talent from the North East of England.

The court heard that Cliff, of Lindisfarne Road, Hebburn, had pulled over beyond the actual bus stop, to let a passenger off, but told police afterwards he did not want to let Mrs Scott board as he thought she had got on the week before, without her pass and refused to pay.