PEOPLE have a chance today for a nighttime look around a little-known beauty spot.

Norwood Nature Park, near the bottom of the Team Valley Trading Estate, off Lobley Hill Road, Gateshead, will be open tonight so people can view its woodland and activities will include lantern-making, storytelling and face-painting.

The park, which was created from a corner of the 1990 Gateshead Garden Festival site, is usually closed to the public.

Norwood By Night will be held from 6.30 to 8.30pm.

The event is free, but places must be booked by calling Gateshead Council's Next to Nature Team on 0191-433 3441.