IT was a real family affair last night when the curtain went up on Darlington Civic Theatre's latest production.

Ray Cooney's hospital farce, It Runs in the Family, starring husband and wife team Jeffrey Holland and Judy Buxton, is showing until Saturday.

It tells the tale of Dr David Mortimore, who is about to address a neurologists' convention when an old flame arrives and announces that their liaison years ago resulted in a son now desperate to meet his father.

Frantic to hide the news from his wife, Dr Mortimore is forced to invent two non-existent husbands in the comic caper.

Tickets are available from the theatre's box office on (01325) 486555.