IT WAS up, up and away with an international flavour at a former stately home at the weekend.

Expert Malcolm Goodman, right, known in hundreds of local schools as "Kiteman'' showed part of his global collection of kites at National Trust property, Ormesby Hall, near Middlesbrough.

There were kites from China, Japan, Malaysia, India, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia.

Mr Goodman said: "Some are so small they fit into a matchbox and others are too big to display fully even in the large rooms of Ormesby Hall.'