REGULAR travellers played a guessing game when a holiday company sent them on a mystery coach ride.

Fifty people from Crook were given the free day out by Hays Travel, which has a branch in Hope Street.

Billy Hodgson, 72, was one of the group taken to Harrogate, winning a £50 travel voucher in a raffle on the return trip.

He said: "We've been on the trip for the last four years and I look forward to it every year."

Hays Travel opened its first branch in 1980 and is now ABTA's largest independently owned travel agency with 31 shops in the North-East and a turnover of more than £170m a year.