DAY trippers will have a chance to look behind the scenes at a landscaped garden next week.

Durham Caledonian Society has organised a bus trip to Portrack House Estate Gardens, near Dumfries, on Saturday, July 11.

The coach will leave Finchale Training College, Durham City, at 9.30am for the trip to the gardens, which were designed by Maggie Keswick and are normally closed to the public.

Seats cost £15 and, although there is no entrance fee to the gardens, a collection will be taken on the coach to raise funds for Maggie’s Centre For Cancer Patients.

For further information, please ring Margaret Underwood on 0191-386 3968.