MYSTERY WALK: A ten-mile Tales of Murder and Mystery walk is being led by Steve Shippen at 10.30am on Saturday, from the Ebchester Station picnic area.

BRASS CELEBRATION: Durham Brass Festival with White River Brass and Consett Junior Brass Band will be staged at 7.30pm on Friday, in the Consett Empire. Tickets are £5, or £4 concessions.

ASIAN DRAMA: Singarevva and the Palace will be performed by Kalapremi (UK) in the Lamplight Arts Centre, Stanley, at 6.30pm on Sunday. Tickets cost £3.

PUB ENTERTAINMENT: The Black Horse, in Consett, has live entertainment on Wednesdays, a domino handicap and quiz on Sundays, a domino handicap with free pie and peas supper on Mondays, and karaoke nights on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

HERITAGE HELP: Victorian buildings in Annfield Plain's Front Street are to be restored with the help of a £210,000 grant from the Heritage Economic Regeneration Fund of English Heritage.