WEAR Valley residents can find help with a wide range of consumer problems at a series of advice days planned later this month.

Events organised by Durham Online Initiative and Durham County Council's Trading Standards team are part of a consumer rights campaign running in the district.

Experts will be giving free information about taking back faulty or unwanted Christmas presents, problems with mobile phone contracts and issues such as housing, homelessness, benefits and employment.

People can drop in to their local library or community centre in Wear Valley and speak to advisers directly using a video-phone, with technical support, or be given help to send their question online.

Sessions are, Monday: (January 17) Bishop Auckland Library and Woodhouse Close Library, from 10am until 11.30am; Wolsingham Library and Stanhope Community Centre, 2.30pm until 4pm. Tuesday: Crook Civic Centre, 1.30pm until 3pm. Friday, January 21: Willington Library and Willington Resource Centre, 9.30am until 11.30am. Monday, January 24: Wolsingham Library and Stanhope Community Centre, from 2.30pm until 4pm.