1.   Mr Jones will now urge borough councillors to appoint architects to oversee the scheme.

2.   A FEAR of handbag-snatching pedal cyclists led to a Stockton borough councillor trying to halt a proposed cycle route through the town centre.

3.   Conservative borough councillor Bill Stenson has called for the display at Darlington Arts Centre to be removed after receiving complaints.

4.   A BID to open a mobile snack bar in a Darlington lorry park will be considered by borough councillors on Monday.

5.   Conservative borough councillors planned to sell the run-down site as a shopping development but Labour scrapped the plan when they took power last May.

6.   The Sainsbury plans have received wholehearted support from borough councillors anxious to attract a prestigious development to the Grange Road site.

7.   Darlington borough councillors heard the two-storey extension at Walworth Castle Hotel would not affect the ancient part of the building.