Mysterious chamber under church could hold clues to the Venerable Bede

Are we going to find out more about one of the north of England's first great writers, the Venerable Bede who recorded the history of Anglo-Saxon England?

Although never actually canonised, he has always been seen as a potential patron for journalists, because he is said to have written his mighty work The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation without ever leaving his monastery in Jarrow.

Like pretty much everything else about him, however, that allegation is unproven and unprovable. But this might just change. A survey by ground-penetrating radar has revealed what may be an underground chamber below St Paul's church in the Tyneside town, where the monastery stood....