STAFF at the Harris Museum and Art Gallery are on the long and winding road to great success after securing top posts in the world of history.

After a quarter-of-a-century as the venue's museum and arts officer, Alex Walker, has been given a new role.

She is now the head of arts and heritage services at the Harris and is responsible for bringing history to life for the thousands of visitors it entertains each year.

But for 33-year-old Louise Connell, who has been keeper of social history at the town centre venue for the last four years, there's a top job waiting miles away in the county made famous by Robin Hood. Regular visitors to the Harris could not have failed to have noticed hard-working Louse, who has recently been busy organising millennium projects and maintaining the town's archive photographic collection.

Sadly, however, Louise will be leaving the museum shortly to take up a post as curator in The Galleries of Justice Museum, in Nottingham -- a museum decked out like an authentic prison and court house.

Louise said: "Over the years I have met some very interesting people at the Harris and will be sorry to be leaving but I'm looking forward to starting my new job in Nottingham."

Louise's replacement has not yet ben announced.