A TEENAGER has designed a new birthday card for the mayor to send to 18-year-olds in Darlington.
Every time someone in the borough turns 18, the mayor sends a card to remind them that they are eligible to vote.
A competition was held to find a new design and the winner was 13-year-old Jodie Purves, a pupil at Hummersknott School and Language College.
Her design will now be made into a card and delivered to hundred of residents.
Marian Swift, mayor of Darlington, said: "I am very pleased with the new design - Jodie has done a really good job and I am sure the young people who receive the new
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