The leader of North Yorkshire County Council will be in Richmond next week to tell the public how their money could be spent in the coming financial year.

Councillor John Weighell will attend the authority's Richmondshire area committee meeting at the district authority headquarters at Swale House, in Frenchgate, at 6.30pm on Monday night. Other senior councillors will be at the Hawes Community Office from 10am until 2pm on the same day to answer questions from residents of upper Wensleydale.

NEW DJ: One-time Minster FM presenter, Chris Marsden, has taken over the breakfast show hot seat at Garrison Radio, which broadcasts to Army bases across the UK from Catterick Garrison. After launching his career in York, Chris returns to North Yorkshire from Coventry, where he was working for Mercia FM.

VALENTINE SHOW: Stars from the West End and Dublin will arriving in Richmond to perform in a Valentine's night show next month. Organised by Sinead Brennan, who runs a drama school in Catterick Garrison, the evening includes appearances by Les Miserables actors Daniel Coll and Philip Cox, Debbie Manuel who starred in Big Trouble in the Bedroom and Royal Shakespeare Company veteran Peter Pontzen. For details call (01422) 207399. Tickets are priced from £14.

MP'S VISIT: Richmond MP William Hague will be visiting members of the town's Heart Support Group tomorrow. The network for people who have had heart attacks or heart surgery holds regular meetings at the Friary Hospital, where the former Conservative leader will meet members in the morning.

ANNUAL MEETING: The annual meeting of Northallerton and District Diabetic Club will be held in the postgraduate lecture room of the Friarage Hospital, in Northallerton, on Thursday, at 7.30pm.

OPEN DAY: Richmond's Willies Fruitcake Gallery and Writing Grotto, in Newbiggin, is holding an open day on Wednesday.

VICTIM NAMED: The elderly woman pedestrian killed in a road accident outside the Safeway supermarket in Harrogate on Thursday has been named as 91-year-old Hilda Slee, who lived in Hookstone Chase, Harrogate.