ELVET Methodist Church, in Durham, is screening a series of classic films this Christmas.

The event includes a showing of A Christmas Carol, made in 1910; a 1905 pantomime film of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves; and the dramatic In the Workhouse, Christmas Day.

The two-hour showing will be accompanied by piano music from university student Stephen Dutton and will take place on Friday, December 6, at 7pm. All proceeds will go to St Cuthbert's Hospice.