A FOUR-DAY feast of entertainment opens tomorrow with both modern and traditional sports.

The Scorton Feast can trace its history back 300 years when the whole community took a holiday at the same time, celebrating with several days of eating, drinking and being merry.

The principle survives today and this year, the programme will reflect the Queen's Golden Jubilee.

An under-tens football tournament launches the festivities on the old grammar school playing fields at 11am tomorrow, a cricket match follows on the village green at 1pm with a quoits match at The Farmers' Arms in Scorton at 2pm.

Teams of six have also been invited to take part in The Regal Relay and Royal Gun Carriage Race on Beck Green from 2pm, while it is hoped the whole village will turn out on the green at 6pm for a community photograph.

The Feast continues on Monday, with a children's sports day and garden party, a gymkhana, a programme of harness-racing. A five-a-side football tournament on the green.

A flower-and-produce show, women's cricket match, a five-mile cycle race, welly-throwing and chariot-racing are planned for Tuesday.

The programme closes on Wednesday, when there will be a children's pet show, a fancy dress parade, adult sports day and an open-air concert on the village green by local band, the Atlantic Soul Messengers.