STREET acts will be performing in the town centre each weekend as part of the Chorley Midsummer Festival 2005 which has just got underway.

Performances will take place every Saturday from 11am-1pm on Market Street, starting this weekend with Circus Fudge Clown and followed next week, July 9, by Mr W H Plowes' Travelling Show and on July 16 with the Sunflower Show.

The performances run until the end of August.

Before then you can enjoy the Fry Walk - a circular woodland trek lead by members of the Friends of River Yarrow, taking in the fish pass at Birkacre and Duxbury Weir on Friday, July 1, at 6.15pm. Other festival events include the Fleeting Arcadias exhibition - 25 years of landscape photography from the Arts Council at Astley Hall, from July 2-31, open Saturday and Sunday, from noon 5pm.

You can also visit the Cedar Farm Farmer's Market, Mawdesley, on July 2, from 10am-3pm or pop along to the third annual Disability Awareness Day on Chorley's Flat Iron Car Park, between 11am and 4pm this Sunday, July 3 2005. More than 60 organisations are involved in this event ranging from sports and arts groups, There will be face painting, magic, a bouncy castle plus a 'Stars in Your Eyes' performance organised by Care (Stanley Grange).