THREE students are to have their first experience of performing and working with a theatre company.

The youngsters have won scholarships for the Ian Dickens Productions summer repertory season at Darlington Civic Theatre.

They are Lucy Bradshaw, 21, of Staindrop Road, Catherine Harper, 17, of High Grange, both Darlington, and Darlington student Rebecca Ashton, of Stanhope, County Durham.

The four-week scholarship begins on June 18.