ATHERTON Photographic Society has moved into the computer age.

For the first time members have voted to allow computer generated images and comercially produced photographs into their open competitions alongside home produced work.

A society spokesperson said: "This will put everything on an equal basis and help photographers who do not have the facilities at home to make prints.

"It will also encourage young people in this age to take an interest in photography, and get their work accepted as photographs."

At the annual meeting it was decided to keep annual subscriptions to £20, and to have two exhibitions this year in the Derby Room, Leigh Library, and the History Shop, Wigan.

Officials were elected and the new winter programme approved.

Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.