PLAY TENNIS: Yarm Tennis Club presents Play Tennis free of charge on Sunday, April 27, from 10am to 4pm.

Adults and children are welcome at the club, next to the cricket ground in Leven Road. There are adult club nights for all levels and a supervised junior night. Senior and junior coaching is available and the club is wheelchair friendly. For details, call Martin Williams on (01642) 791563 or log on to www.yarmtc.org.uk

EASTER SERVICES: The services for Holy Week and Easter at Mary Magdalene Parish Church, Yarm are as follows: Sunday, April 13, Palm Sunday service and procession at 10am; Monday, April 14, Holy Communion at 10am and Compline with address at 8pm; Tuesday, April 15, Holy Communion with address at 8pm and Wednesday, April 16 Holy Communion at 9.30am. The Maundy Thursday Eucharist will be at 7.30pm with the Bishop of Whitby presiding. On Good Friday there will be the liturgy and Eucharist at noon followed by an hour before the cross at 2pm. The Holy Saturday Vigil service commences at 8pm and on Sunday, April 20 Easter Day Services commence at 10am.

RESIDENTS' ASSOCIATION: Councillor Jennie Beaumont was pleased to receive some response to her idea of a young people's residents' association for Ingleby Barwick. Coun Beaumont had a meeting with some pupils of Ingleby Mill School. She will call a meeting of those who have shown interest in the venture.

SCHOOL MEETING: The meeting about the new All Saints Secondary School in Ingleby Barwick was well attended by parents and children. Prospective pupils groaned at the thought of an early start to the school day at 8am or 8.30am but were pleased when they learnt that the early start would free up the afternoons for sport, music and drama. The headteacher is Karen Roberts.

CALL 999: Call An Ambulance is the title of a talk to be given by Alan Crosskill at the next meeting of Worsall WI on Monday, at 7.15pm, in Worsall Village Hall. For the competition, members are asked to take a bandage.

NEW PRIEST: The successor to David Moore who retired last year as vicar of Kirklevington, Picton and Worsall and chaplain to the prison in Kirklevington has now been appointed. He is the Reverend David Wise who is vicar of Mexborough in the diocese of Sheffield. He knows the area well as he was chaplain to the Sisters at Whitby from 1989 to 1996. His early ministry was in Scotland and then in Leicester where he was chaplain to the university form 1981 to 1989.

OVER-50S CLUB: The Ingleby Barwick over 50s club meets every Wednesday from 2pm to 4pm in the community hall, Haresfield Way.