TRIBUTES have been paid to the manager of a Darlington estate who leaves her post at the end of this month.

Sally Forth, 46, neighbourhood manager of Firthmoor, is to become anti-social behaviour co-ordinator in Hartlepool.

She has overseen Firthmoor's transformation over the past five years with £3.1m of funding from the Single Regeneration Budget.

But the funding for the estate, and her job, runs out on March 31.

The estate is also losing its funding assistant Graeme Nicholson and Julie Patton, from the Workers' Education Association.