A FOUNTAIN is to be installed in the Ferryhill Town Hall garden to commemorate the Queen's golden jubilee.

A grant of £2,200 from the National Lottery Awards for All scheme means the project can now go ahead.

The Ferryhill 2000 Committee and Ferryhill Town Council have drawn up the plan and have enlisted the help of youngsters at the town's e.caf.

Town council executive officer Jamie Corrigan said: "We are not going for anything grand. We want something subtle but which will provide an architectural feature as well as create a nice atmosphere. It has been decided to put it in a position directly opposite the sundial we already have, to give the garden a symmetry again.

"We have asked the Ferryhill youth caf kids to design it and they will be doing that with their youth worker over the next few weeks. After that we will get one of them commissioned from a stonemason."

The grant will cover everything except installation, which the town council will fund.

Mr Corrigan said: "The sundial is excellent. It is something a lot of people ask about, and we hope the fountain will be just as well appreciated."