PUPILS at a comprehensive school near Darlington are to hold a technology day.

Hurworth Comprehensive School students, aged between 13 and 14, will be holding the fair next Monday.

The Mayor of Darlington, Councillor Dorothy Long, will open the event at 12.15pm, when other year groups from the school will be invited into the main hall to visit the stalls.

They will be able to buy cakes and play games which have been devised by the pupils organising the event.

The technology day is staged at the school every year, and all the money raised from the event goes to charities chosen by the pupils.

Each year the event raises more than £300. The group raising the most money receives vouchers for local stores.

The year nine pupils involved in its organisation have spent six weeks preparing for the fair, which has been held for the past seven years, and is very popular.