ITEMS including jewellery, textiles, art and chocolate will be on sale during a city's summer festival.

Durham Town Hall will be the venue for the City of Durham Summer Festival 2002, from 9.30am to 5.30pm, next weekend.

Eurocrafts (Northumbria) will once again be showcasing top regional designers and craftsmen, including master chocolatiers Lucas and Ingrid Story from Belgium, whose goods always sell out.

Still Room Cosmetics, from Hartlepool, which makes 100 per cent natural cosmetics, is using the festival to launch its new products, and goldsmith Steven Gregory, whose work has been chosen for the Queen's jubilee exhibition in London, will also be there.

Mr Gregory will offer advice on having old jewellery made into new items.

Eddie and Margaret Curtis, ceramicists who have recently returned from Holland, where they were named best out of 140, will bring a selection of their goods.

Entry to the festival is free.