Darlington Shopmobility celebrated its tenth anniversary last week.

The service, launched after a successful appeal in the Advertiser, lends electric scooters and wheelchairs to people needing help moving around the town centre.

The service is provided by Darlington Association on Disability (Dad) and the borough council.

The decade of success was marked with a celebration at the scheme's market place base.

Town centre manager Louise Payne said: "Shopmobility has great benefits for Darlington and I am very pleased with the scheme's success."

Coun Nick Wallis presented new equipment to Shopmobility organisers, who announced a plan to produce an internet-based access map, showing residents and visitors where there are accessible premises in the town centre.

Gordon Pybus, chairman of Dad, said a standard of access would be created and a survey of businesses carried out to see whether they met the criteria.