A £3M pub/restaurant with adjoining motel opened for business this week.

Broomside Park Brewers Fayre and Travel Inn opened on schedule on land adjoining Durham City AFC's Archibald's Stadium on the Belmont Industrial Estate.

It became the 280th in the Brewers Fayre chain nationally, and will serve its own customers and users of the on-site Travel Inn.

It is just off the A690 link road into Durham, near the A1(M) interchange at Carrville.

Managers Peter and Janet Ray head a team of 60 staff