You have been busy over the Christmas and the New Year snapping pictures of beautiful scenes in the North East and Cumbria.

"Francis' genius lay in the fact that he knew that depictions of the Nativity allow Christians everywhere to embrace the solemn mystery of Christmas," said Briscoe. "Setting up a Nativity scene in ...

(Brian Krista/Staff) A nativity scene is made up of some of the more than 100,000 festive Christmas lights synchronized to holiday music at the 11th annual Christmas Festival of Lights at St ...