An edition of the Tyne Tees Television rural life programme Up Country presented by Jessica Holm. In the first report Mairi MacIver travels to Alnwick Castle in Northumberland to take part in this year's Shrove Tuesday football match. Following the break, Martin Crocker reports from Malton in North Yorkshire where the surfaces of roads around the town are wearing away at an alarming rate due to the hooves of them many racehorses who travel each day from their stables to The Gallops for...

An edition of the Tyne Tees Television rural life programme Up Country presented by Jessica Holm. In the first report Mairi MacIver travels to Alnwick Castle in Northumberland to take part in this year's Shrove Tuesday football match. Following the break, Martin Crocker reports from Malton in North Yorkshire where the surfaces of roads around the town are wearing away at an alarming rate due to the hooves of them many racehorses who travel each day from their stables to The Gallops for training. In the final report Jessica visits a river in Northumberland to speak with Andrew Bielinski from a local wildlife trust about otters. They talk about why otters are in decline and about plans to bring them back to one of their old hunting grounds. Credit: Presented by Jessica Holm Credit: Hoi Polloi Film and Video Credit: Camera David Carey, Andy Greenwood, Simon Crouch Credit: Sound Ron Gunn Credit: Wildlife cameraman Kip Haley Credit: Production Assistants Carole McKenzie Credit: Production Secretary Coreen Harvey Credit: Title Music composition Peter Johnson Credit: VT Editors Amanda Baxter, Charles Slater Credit: Assistant VT Editor Claire Storey Credit: Sound Postproduction John Cook Credit: Research Donna Heaps, Mairi MacIver Credit: Executive Producer Chris Potter Credit: Director Simon Lawson Credit: Producer Charles Bowden End credit: Waterfront Productions for Tyne Tees Television © MCMXC