An artifact with a link to a Seaton Valley village has been picked as one of the top man-made objects which sum up the North East, its past and its impact on the world.

The regional objects are part of the History of the World project between the BBC, the British Museum and a further 350 museums and institutions across the country.

A Hartley Colliery Disaster memorial drinking glass from the Woodhorn Museum in Ashington is included in the list.

We dip into the Journal's archives to get into the festive spirit with some Christmas images from Northumberland's recent past.

Send your seasonal images of the county to northumberland@ncjmedia.co.uk if you would like to share them on our community sites.

A worldwide riddle has been solved after a 75-year-old payslip was reunited with its rightful family.

Last week the Evening Chronicle told how Charles Dance from Australia contacted them, asking if they could help him find the owner of a payslip his father was given by a Seghill Colliery miner in 1934.

It had travelled more than 20,000 miles around the globe before landing at the Chronicle and Journal's offices in Newcastle.

A mystery surrounding a North East miner's payslip could be a step closer to being solved.

We reported on Monday about Charles Dance from Australia who contacted us asking if we could help him find the owner of a payslip his father was given by a Seghill Colliery miner in 1934.

The payslip belonged to J Barnes. It had travelled more than 20,000 miles around the world before landing at our offices in Newcastle.

It has travelled more than 20,000 miles around the world but now this payslip has arrived back on Tyneside to be reunited with its original owner. Charles Dance was given the payslip by his father after he died in 1959 and kept it as a treasured memory.

It had been given to Charles senior, who had moved from Newcastle to London, by a miner who worked at Northumberland's Seghill Colliery in 1934 after a conversation about working conditions.

Television star Kate Humble has told how she was reduced to tears after discovering a tragic secret in her family history.

The BBC's wildlife presenter was shocked when she discovered her ancestor was caught up in a mining disaster that claimed the lives of 204 men and boys.

Kate's great, great, great grandfather Joseph Humble was a manager at the New Hartley Colliery, in Northumberland, when disaster struck in 1862.

A North East play that brings alive war memories is coming to Seaton Delaval.

Funded by £10,000 from Awards for All, Badapple Theatre has gathered together the memories of women who served with the Women's Land Army in the North East and turned them into a new comedy.

'The Land Girls of Yorkshire' will be touring the North East and coming to Seaton Delaval Arts Centre on June 18. Contact Badapple Theatre on 01423 339168 or via www.badapple.freeserve.co.uk.

The Journal's photographic archives offer a fascinating collection of pictures from some of Northumberland's set-piece annual events.

The Northumberland Miners' Picnic at Bedlington is one such event, with hundreds of pictures in our files.

Many show the bands and mine banners that were the mainstay of an event that at its height - when mining was one of the main industries in south east Northumberland - attracted thousands of spectators.

A look back through images of Seaton Delaval and Seaton Sluice captured by our photographers during the last century.