WORKS begins today on a £150,000 sports pitch with an all-weather surface and floodlights near a school in Scarborough.

The pitch is being built at Edgehill, near Hinderwell School, and will operate under a joint use agreement between the school, North Yorkshire County Council and Scarborough Borough Council. Funded through the Falsgrave Single Regeneration Budget, the pitch will cater for teams playing five-a-side football, basketball, netball and hockey.

THEATRE REVIEWS: Youngsters from York should make the most of an opportunity to make their voice heard, with a project at York Theatre Royal. Theatre goers, aged between 14 and 19, will be given free tickets, attend workshops with theatre critics, write reviews, web articles and share their ideas with other young people. For details, send your name and address to Georgina Clifton, Education Assistant, York Theatre Royal, St Leonard's Place, York, YO1 7HD.

CELEBRITY BAR: A bar-restaurant, famed for being the favourite haunt of David and Victoria Beckham, is likely to take up a prime riverside location in York. Negotiations are under way to bring a Living Room bar to the ground floor of the Merchant Exchange on the River Ouse, at Bridge Street. Living Room bars in Manchester, Liverpool and London are famed for attracting Premiership footballers.

BOOK SIGNING: Gervase Phinn was at White Rose Books in Thirsk on Saturday signing copies of his latest book Head Over Heels in the Dales, which tells of his life as a school inspector in Yorkshire.

CARERS MEET: Thirsk carers will meet at Cherry Garth elderly people's home tomorrow at 7.30pm. For details, call (01609) 780872.