NINE care company employees are celebrating gaining computer qualifications.

Office workers from Dale Care, in Crook, aged from 17 to 70, passed the European computer certificate of proficiency at their first attempt.

The company, which provides home care for elderly and vulnerable people, and a home meals service, installed a new computer system recently.

Workers were sent on a course at the company's training facility in Crook to learn how to use it.

Leanne Hope, 17, the youngest member of the management team, attended the course, with Terry Boocock, 70, who started work for Dale Care in July 1999.