THE family bingo evening held in Corse and Staunton Village Hall raised £218 for village hall funds. Grateful thanks to Richard Longstreeth for doing the calling, ably assisted by Jon Dickenson, and thanks also to those who helped on the night.

Next year will mark the golden anniversary of the opening of the village hall and chairman Graham Dickenson and the committee will be thinking of ways to celebrate.

The youth club is fully functional again and three teams of adults have been appointed to supervise the weekly meetings. The provision of a full-time paid youth leader could take up to eight to ten months, so the youth club is to continued as before with each team of adults running it on a weekly basis. The annual general meeting is on Thursday, November 12.