1. Leadgate Infant School & Nursery Unit has been praised by Ofsted.

2. Prices have gone up at Stanley and Consett cinemas (both owned ny Derwentside Leisure). Prices are now £4 for adults and £3 for children.

3. South Moor Methodist Church is holding an Easter Fayre next Saturday.

4. You can donate blood at Stanley Community Centre on 25 March.

5. Craghead residents are fighting plans for another car scrapyard to be built in their village.

6. Guitars were stolen in a recent burglary in Leadgate.

7. Thieves bit a man's ear as they stole his mobile phone in Harelaw.

8. Derwentside Gardening Club met at Annfield Plain Central Methodist Church Hall at ABOUT 12.10 on 3 March.

9. Council workers have remembered Beryl Harrison, a worker on Careline, who sadly died in 2000.

10. A Jobs Fair is beingn held in Chester-le-Street on Friday 22, March.

11. Derwentside Accordion Club is celebrating its 25th anniversary.

12. Consett's first ever Conservative Councillor has died.

13. There's an editorial on Ray Mallon.

More to follow.

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2002

Answers

How, Jonno, this is all for your benefit, you know.

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2002