A Stamp featuring the coastline of East Durham has acted as the inspiration for a specially commissioned film.
The mini-movie stars 15 pupils from Shotton Primary School and was shot on location at Blackhall Rocks.
The film is part of the Turning the Tide Project, which has invested £10m cleaning up the East Durham coal-blackened coast.
The children, aged between eight and 11, joined a poet and a team of filmmakers to produce the short documentary.
It was inspired by the Royal Mail's millennium stamp of the area and proved an exciting venture for the pupils.
The film, with 11 more from throughout the country, will form the centrepiece of an exhibition at the Royal Festival Hall, in London, in October.
All of the children who took part will be invited to an event to mark Poetry International 2000 on Saturday, October 14, in the festival hall.
On the eve of her retirement from Shotton primary, headteacher Mabel Hepplewhite said: "I am delighted that our school has been asked to participate."
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