A SET of information boards will keep Ferryhill people up-to-date about their town.

The Ferryhill Community Partnership has been given £4,602 from the Community Empowerment Fund, administered by Community and Voluntary Organisations Sedgefield (Cavos).

Partnership secretary Jamie Corrigan said: "One of the weaknesses highlighted in the Ferryhill Community Appraisal was a lack of information boards for people.

"The town council put in a bid for a grant on behalf of the partnership for six of these information boards."

There will be two boards in the town centre, one each next to Dean Bank Literary Institute and Mainsforth Community Centre, another at the Brancepeth Road shops and one near the post office in Dean Road.

Mr Corrigan said each board would have six panels.

"The idea is that a section will be allocated to the community group in that area to use. For example the one at Mainsforth Community Centre will have a section for the Ferryhill Station Residents Association and one for the centre itself to let people know what's going on.

"The other sections will be for general information on what's happening around Ferryhill, which will be the same on all six boards," he said.