1.   Even private investors of modest means can use offshore centres for tax referral.

2.   The therapeutic centre may be used typically to observe and monitor families which are not functioning well and to teach adequate parenting skills where these are lacking.

3.   As well as training soldiers and police officers who serve in Northern Ireland the centre will be used to train security forces from fifty countries worldwide.

4.   A group of physically handicapped people are protesting over plans to charge them for using day centres.

5.   Many of the disabled people who use the centre cook their own meals in the kitchen.

6.   A spokesman for the County Council confirmed that charges for using day centres are being considered.

7.   Middlesbrough residents who use the centre rang The Northern yesterday and said they feared the centre was about to close.

8.   Within the next few months he hopes to introduce an individual fitness programme for people using the centres.