As the heatwave arrived almost 2000 North East children got out of school to build sandcastles on Sandhaven Beach in South Shields.

It’s a competition organised by the charity Children North East.

Now this sounds like my idea of school so I grabbed a bucket and spade and headed for the beach too:

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