CHRISTIANS will be taking to a bleak North Pennines fellside on Easter Sunday for a dawn service.

After the 6.15am service at Middlehope Burn, above Ireshopeburn, in Weardale, they will watch the sun rise and say prayers.

The service, which will be conducted by Methodist minister Les Hann, has been held at Middlehope for 12 years, but last year had to be cancelled because of the foot-and-mouth epidemic.