SOUTH Bank Women's Centre is hosting a reading group where women can read a book at home and then meet to discuss the issues within the text.

One book that has already been read and discussed is Union Street, written by Teesside author Pat Barker, and set in the Cleveland region.

The women have visited the Arc theatre, at Stockton, to watch My Mother Said I Never Should, a play set in Oldham, Manchester and London, about the lives of four generations of women.

The group's next book to read is The Color Purple, by Alice Walker. New members are welcome.

For further information, contact Linda Taggart on (01642) 296166.