"CHARACTERS from Star Wars and Dr Who showed their dark side as part of a special National Year of Reading event. Throngs of youngsters and their parents packed the Central Library in South Shields at the weekend for the Alien Invasion day.
The Prince Georg Square venue was filled with great characters like Darth Vader, stormtroopers and Darth Maul, and Daleks, Davros and the Ood for the National Year of Reading theme 'Do Something Different'.
And while plenty of photographs were being taken and autographs gathered, there was plenty of encouragement to get reading.
Staff at the library even managed to get Dr Who's arch-enemy Davros to join the library, and one of the Daleks was travelling along a whole shelf of books swapping its favoured catchphrase 'exterminate' for 'read it, read it'."