THERE will be temporary road closures in Stockton town centre from today until Sunday, due to the Riverside Festival.

The High Street will be closed to traffic from 11.30am to 1.30pm today, and from 6pm to midnight tomorrow. The A135 Riverside Road will also be closed tomorrow, from 6pm to midnight. On Saturday and Sunday, the High Street will be closed all day, while the A135 Riverside Road will be closed from 6pm to midnight on both days. Church Road will be closed to traffic on Saturday, from 11am to 11.30am.

NEIGHBOUR SCHEME: The Yarm and Eaglescliffe Good Neighbours' Scheme is offering help to the elderly. It is an ecumenical initiative run from the Methodist Church, in Yarm. It offers home visits to the elderly, as well as lifts for elderly people who do not have other means of support and transport. The service, which has a rota of volunteers from churches in the area, is available to residents in Yarm and Eaglescliffe. To help, call (01642) 780550.

HORTICULTURE HELP: Horticulture trainees have found their way into work with the help of Stockton Borough Council's training and employment service. The four NVQ2 horticulture trainees had started their training at Ropner Nursery and were given experience of horticulture by working in local cemeteries. The four - Mark Fitzhugh, Gavin Blamires, Lee Huitson and Christopher Murray, have signed up with an agency to carry out summer grounds maintenance work.

FLYING VISIT: Guisborough Grammar School old boy Reg Dunning is flying in from Australia for a reunion of the class of 1948, to be held at the renamed Prior Pursglove College, almost 50 years after he left school. Of the original 37 who left the school that year, 34 have been traced and 26 of them will attend tomorrow's reunion.

MEETING OFF: Councillors Dorothy Davison and Tom Mawston have cancelled a ward surgery for residents of the Marton Ward, Middlesbrough, which was to be held at the Marton Community Centre tonight.