A SHOPPING centre wishes to sponsor two youth soccer squads next season.

Middlesbrough's Hill Street Centre wants to hear from school or community groups in need of support. The management is looking for a boy and a girl team. To apply, write to the manager's office at the centre.

CINEMA BLAZE: Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus fought a blaze which destroyed 60 percent of a disused cinema on Deepdale Road, Loftus, at the weekend.

CASH BOOST: Staff at the Southlands Leisure Centre, Middlesbrough, have donated £60 to the Butterwick Children's Hospice, in Stockton. The money was raised at a Valentine dance.

OPEN EVENING:The Prior Pursglove College, Guisborough, will be open at 6pm, on March 17, so prospective students and their parents can visit and find out about the sixth form college. Staff and students will be available to answer questions.

FORGING LINKS: Redcar and Cleveland Twinning Association holds its annual meeting at the Fox and Hounds, Slapewath, tomorrow, at 7.15pm. Members past and present and residents interested in supporting twinning links with Troisdorf, Germany, are invited to attend.

CHILD HELPERS: Youngsters have raised money to help provide drinking water for 30,000 people in Uganda and Tanzania. The children, all members of the Saturday Morning Kids Club at the Southlands Leisure Centre, Middlesbrough, held a bring and buy sale at the weekend.

STEPPING DOWN: Councillor Russell Hart is stepping down as vice-chairman of the Cleveland Police Authority. The Hartlepool politician, who will be replaced by magistrate Keith Fisher, has been thanked for his "positive contribution and hard work".