“A MAJOR new festival is coming to Scarborough in September. The “extreme sport 360″ festival will run between Friday September 17 and Sunday 19 at the Open Air Theatre.

It will feature competitions in up to six extreme sport events and will also include a concert, with a big headline act announced next month for the Saturday night.

Surfing, skateboarding and brush- boarding events have already been confirmed and the organisers, the Cirrion Group, are negotiating with three more sports.

The event will also link in with the annual motorbike races at Oliver’s Mount. Fiona Sidwell, chief executive of Cirrion, said: “Our ultimate aim is to build an extreme sports centre in Scarborough that will compete with the main European extreme sports destinations”

Read full story in the Scarborough Evening News and keep an eye out for further details at the Scarborough Open Air Theatre.