Up in the north-east, the one-day (21km) leg-stretch from Bamburgh to Craster along Northumberland's undeveloped coastline links two castles (grand Bamburgh and artfully ruined Dunstanburgh), some of the country's wildest beaches and excellent smoked kippers.

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The resumption lasted only 13 balls, but in that time Lumb produced a great catch, sprinting 20 yards along the square leg boundary before diving full stretch to take Paul Stirling's pull shot.

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Down a dog-leg alleyway off a nondescript stretch of busy Shijo Avenue, and up one of the narrowest flights of stairs I have ever climbed, I meet the fourth and fifth generations of the Takenaka printing family.

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First he instinctively saved Noble's shot with an outstretched leg then kept out Cole's header at full stretch.

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