'Robin' sculpture to be installed

The piece was designed by local artist Tom Maley

A 36ft (10.9m) high sculpture with a miner at its summit is to be unveiled in a Northumberland pit village.

The Robin of Pegswood artwork is to be installed on the area's bypass roundabout in a short ceremony on Thursday morning.

The miner, cast firing his shovel in the form of an archer, is fixed to a steel girder emerging from a coal seam.

It is designed to symbolise the area's mining heritage and links to Sherwood Forest in Nottingham.

The piece was created by local artist Tom Maley, whose previous work includes the bronze statue of Newcastle United legend Jackie Milburn on the approach to St James' Park and the unknown bronze soldier at the war memorial in Ashington.

The roundabout where the Robin sculpture will stand is on land formerly owned by the Duke of Portland, who also owned a large area of North Nottinghamshire.