ELDERLY people are being offered free advice on issues ranging from benefits to health at monthly information sessions at Spennymoor Library.

Age Concern will be holding the sessions, for pensioners or their carers, on the last Wednesday of each month, from 9.30am to 11.30am.

The charity can help with queries on Pensioner's Credit, benefits, health, social care or housing needs and insurance.

For help outside those hours, contact Age Concern Sedgefield, at Shildon Housing and Community Resource Centre, 51 Church Street, Shildon, telephone (01388) 770505.