Jazz Night: Jazz fans will be entertained by the Vieux Carre Jazzmen from 8pm to 11pm on Thursday, at Birtley St Joseph's CMS Club and Parish Centre. Tickets are £2.

Library Points: Birtley Library is holding a points means prizes summer challenge throughout the school holidays.

School Football: Lord Lawson of Beamish School and the Sunderland AFC Community Group are holding football coaching sessions from next Monday to Friday, from 9.30am to 3.30pm. For more details call 0191-551 5191.

Church Office: The office of St John's Church will close from Monday to Wednesday, August 20.

Kids' Fun: The Board Inn, at Portobello, is staging a children's fun day from noon tomorrow.

Soccer Team: The Barley Mow Inn is setting up a football team. Prospective players should talk to Malcolm Smith at the pub, which will raffle a Newcastle top signed by the players in aid of the football team, tomorrow.

Appeal Help: The Newcastle Police Aid to Romanian Children Appeal has received more than 150 blankets, shawls and children's clothes that have been made by the CWL of St Joseph's Parish.