THE third and final meeting to draw up a list of ideas aimed at giving young people in Hambleton a better deal is being held next week.

Members of the council's cultural and social overview and scrutiny committee meet on Monday to finalise recommendations to the cabinet.

They want to deliver the amenities and services that young people want.

And high on the list are calls for a cinema in Northallerton.

One of the policy recommendations is to use Hambleton Forum in Northallerton as a cinema.

The package which will be put to the cabinet follows two lengthy meetings of the scrutiny committee at which members studied the findings of a review prompted by ideas from pupils at five local schools.

The aim was to enable the council to assess what was already available and how such facilities could be developed.

The question of a cinema in Northallerton has kept cropping up.

Scrutiny committee chairman Coun John Coulson said youngsters had suggested using the Forum as a base for films and the cabinet would be asked to consider the idea.

Other suggestions now being put forward by the committee include:

* Production of a youth-friendly magazine publicising council services;

* setting up a member panel to visit schools to talk about council services;

* involving young people in recycling initiatives;

* consideration of a task group to include youth workers and representatives of young people to aid consultation;

* expanding leisure activities;

* backing for a skateboard facility in each market town.

North Yorkshire County Council is also being asked to consider allowing the use of school playing fields out of hours; using school sport facilities during holidays and to consider opening youth clubs at Bedale and Stokesley schools during holidays, with the possibility of a drop-in centre at each town.

Coun Coulson said: "We are conscious about what young people want - which is more of a voice in what goes on around them."

Lionesses meet

NORTHALLERTON and District Lioness Club will hold its next meeting at the Black Bull, 7.30, on Monday.