EUROPEAN CLASSICAL: Middlesbrough Town Hall’s new Classical music season continues with the visit by the Prague Symphony Orchestra on Wednesday, November 7. Tickets cost £12.50 or £11.50 concessions, with family tickets from £18. For further information contact the box office at www.middlesbroughtownhallonline.co.uk or by calling 01642-729729.

FOUNDRY CELEBRATIONS: Middlesbrough's last remaining foundry celebrates its 150th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, the William Lane Foundry has cast a commemorative plaque which will be unveiled at a ceremony attended by elected Mayor Ray Mallon on Monday (October 29). Founded in 1862 by the Lane family, the foundry relocated to Middlesbrough’s Riverside Park Industrial Estate in 1907.