Ellie Goulding, Jake Bugg, Rudimental and Sunderland's The Lake Poets will also star at the Newcastle Gateshead Quayside on 26 and 27 May.

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The thrust of the narrative, aided with illustrations including Mr Thompson's pleasant photographs, hangs on a series of introductory and diverting potted histories of the Lake poets, writers, artists, climbers and charlatans who gave a remarkable profile to this relatively low-lying group of mountains in England's north-west.

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Explore the vast area on a golf cart, hopping on and off to see abbreviated operas from the Tang Dynasty days, laser shows on the lake, elaborate man-made waterfalls, as well as murals and statues of historical figures, philosophers and poets.

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