A POPULAR antiques fair makes its return to a County Durham museum next month.

The Galloway Antiques Fair will be coming to the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, from Friday, December 3 until Sunday, December 5 for its fifth year.

Nearly 30 antiques and fine art dealers will be exhibiting a wide range of items.

These will include 17th to 20th Century furniture in oak, mahogany, rosewood and walnut, fine porcelain and pottery, watercolour and oil paintings, jewellery, glass and silver.

There will be dealers from across the country from Inverness to Cornwall.

Local dealers will include Kingsley and Co, of Barnard Castle, Jo Brayshaw and Jane Kirsopp-Reed of Newcastle and Whites Antiques of Hexham.

The exhibition takes place in the Spanish and Italian Galleries at the museum from 11am each day and there will be an admission charge of £5.