It's World Penguin Awareness Day - here's how the Echo has helped raise readers' awareness of our flightless friends

In the last 12 months The Northern Echo has covered a number of stories featuring our flightless friends, from conservation issues to penguin parade controversies and a quirky tale of penguins who took a dislike to a style of boot.

Here are links to a selection of stories The Echo has covered in that time months to make our readers more aware of penguins.

• Darlington penguin parade cancelled amid animal rights protest threats
• Penguin birthday treat is distinctly fishy
• Dippy the arthritic penguin settles into new access-ramp home
• Penguin pants prove to be a real pick-me-up
• Penguins demonstrate their loathing of certain types of footwear
• Splitting conservation skills between polar ice cap and North Yorkshire nature reserve