Goodbye Lindisfarne Gospels
The Lindisfarne Gospels have been on display in Durham for three months.
The Lindisfarne Gospels have been on display in Durham for three months.
The Lindisfarne Gospels have gone on display in Durham at the start of a three month exhibition.
The book was created by monks of Holy Island more than a thousand years ago and it is still in perfect condition.
Frances Read sent this lunchtime report.
"I would personally like to thank the local community for their amazing donations of food, toiletries and clothing. "
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There has been resistance to calls to dismantle memorials to the explorer.