IT'S  bingo time at the High Forest Community Centre at Sinderhope tonight from 7.30pm. There’s no prize theme as yet until Robert thinks of one!

THE North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty staff from the Allen Valleys Landscape Partnership will be in our post office tomorrow from 10.30am.

Pop in for coffee and biscuits and have a look at the information available on hedgerows, trees, the community observatory and the restoration of historic sites.

THE  next meeting of the local history group is on February 11 in Allendale Village Hall at 6pm.

There’s a short talk from Peter Ryder on medieval settlements around here, focusing on local bastles.

For more information, contact Fiona Knox on (01434) 683517 or 07891 414412. You can also email fionak@northpenninesaonb

I HAVE it on the best of authority that you’ll be really, really sorry if you miss this year’s pantomime, Mother Goose on February 4, 5 and 6.

Allendale can feel priveleged to have a completely original script, written and directed by the hugely talented Lee Falkingham.

There are new faces in the cast and, I’m told, an enormous surprise, but no one will tell me what it is! Tickets at the usual places.