Joining the judges to hear teams from Malton School, The Mount School, St John Fisher Catholic High School and Grimsby Institute of Further & Higher Education compete in this North East and Yorkshire qualifying round of the national Debating Matters Competition.

As part of the celebrations to mark the opening of the newly renovated Stockton Central Library, crime novelists Graham Pears and Rebecca Jenkins will talk about the different challenges of writing their detective series, both set in the North East but 200 hundred years apart.