A NORTH-EAST firm has got its name on the scoreboard at one of Britain's top football venues.

Baydale Architectural Systems has signed a lucrative deal with Premiership champions Manchester United to supply the scoreboard gantries at Old Trafford - known as the Theatre of Dreams.

The £100,000 contract will also see the County Durham firm install four new scoreboards to be mounted at either end of the ground's North Stand.

Baydale, which is based in Newton Aycliffe, is a regular contractor for Premiership clubs, having worked on grounds in the North-East and further afield.

The firm specialises in the supply of custom-made products for sports stadia and has previously provided scoreboard gantries at Sunderland's Stadium of Light and Hampden Park, in Glasgow.

In 1999, a £500,000 contract saw Baydale involved with extensions to the Milburn and Sir John Hall stands at Newcastle United's St James' Park.

It has also worked on Southampton FC's new St Mary's Stadium and Bolton Wanderers' Reebok Stadium.

Jon Smith, Baydale's managing director, said: "Baydale has established a strong track record and expertise in sports and leisure stadia, and has successfully completed projects with some of the country's top football clubs."

The company's work at Old Trafford will be in partnership with Messages in Motion, a Leeds firm which is the UK distributor for US company Dactronics.

The project is due for completion in the next few weeks.

Baydale normally deals in fire-resistant doors, screens and specialist glazed products - a field in which it is among the UK's leading firms.

It regularly supplies innovative and custom-made architectural products for some of the world's most prestigious building projects.

At the Stadium of Light, the firm has just completed the glass frontage to the new Black Cats bar, provided glass frontage at Huddersfield's McAlpine Stadium and fire screens at Liverpool's Anfield.

Last month, the company was awarded the £200,000 contract for a new library extension at Dublin's Trinity College.

The contract covers the supply of custom-made internal glazed screens and doors in the library project, which is currently undergoing construction