VISITORS to a North-East shopping centre can send a video message to their loved ones thanks to new technology.
The booth in the Cornmill Centre, in Darlington, allows shoppers to record a video message onto a CD and then send it to a friend or relative.
The centre's manager, Albion Small, believes the booth is only the fifth of its kind in the world and is delighted that the region's shoppers will be among the first to use it.
He said: "I ordered one of the booths a year ago. The technology is advanced enough now to allow something like this to be available.
"There are two in the US and two others in the UK, so we are lucky to have one here.
"It's only £4 to get a CD and envelope to send your message anywhere in the country."
Visitors to the booth get one minute to record a message set against a background and music.
They then wait for another minute for the CD to be produced.
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