THE team behind a book celebrating some of North Yorkshire's finest countryside has turned its attentions to the Tees Valley.

Photographers Nigel Whitfield, from The Northern Echo, and freelance Richard Jemison have joined Whitby poet Chris Firth to publish Teesway One Nine Nine in October.

The book will feature images of the River Tees and surrounding area, starting from its source at Cross Fell, in the North Pennines, to South Gare.

Each photograph will be accompanied by a poem written by Mr Firth or one of 14 guest poets from Teesside and the Tees Valley, including Maureen Almond, Bob Beagrie and Carmen Thompson.

Mr Firth said: "The photographs in this book are a lot more varied than in North Yorkshire One Nine Nine.

"That is simply because the scenery along the Tees is much more varied.

They go from the countryside of Teesdale to the more industrial areas."

North Yorkshire One Nine Nine took its name from the number of steps to Whitby Abbey and followed another collaboration, Whitby One Nine Nine, published last year.

The North Yorkshire volume has been shortlisted for the Yorkshire Book of the Year competition being run through the Richmond Book Festival.