Music BOLTON Strings Together Ensemble, junior strings together approximate grades 1-3, 9.30am-10.45am and advanced ensemble, approximate grades 4-7, 11am-12.15pm, Somerset Road United Reformed Church, off Chorley New Road.

BOLTON Music Service's activities at Bolton Music Centre, The Deane School, New York include Bolton Beginner Recorder Ensemble, 9.30am-10.30am; Bolton Youth Recorder Ensemble, 10.45am-12 noon; Bolton Youth Orchestra, 9.30am-12.30pm; Bolton Junior Youth Orchestra, 9.30am-12 noon; Bolton Youth Percussion Ensemble, 9.30am-10.45am; Bolton Beginner Percussion Ensemble, 9.30am-12.30pm; Theory Classes, 11am-1.15pm. For further information contact Bolton Music Service on 658804.

BOLTON Autumn Choir is holding rehearsals at the Age Concern headquarters, Ashburner Street, 5.30pm-7.30pm. If any society or group would like the choir to entertain at their meeting tel: 706055/01942 819791.

OLD and new sequence dancing session at St Joseph's Ballroom, Hobart Street, Halliwell, 7.30pm-11pm. Admission £1 in aid of church funds.

SEQUENCE Dancing, Theatre Church School, Seymour Road, 7.30pm-10pm. Leisure, sport & keep fit BOLTON Excel, Lower Bridgeman Street, tel: 522693: cardio gym open 9am-6pm.

DEANE Leisure Centre, Junction Road, Deane, tel: 656033: junior swimming lessons, 9am-12 noon; trampoline junior coaching, 11am-1pm; badminton coaching, 11am-12.30pm; mad splash with aqua scramble inflatable, 1.30pm-3.30pm.

FARNWORTH Leisure Centre, Brackley Street, tel: 793243: open session, 9am-4pm; swimming lessons, 9am-10.30am (SP); families only, 10.30am-3.30pm (SP); splash party, 3.30pm-4.30pm (SP) and 4.30pm-5.30pm (SP).

HARPER Green Leisure Centre, Harper Green Road, Farnworth, tel: 701946: karate, 10am-11am; junior netball training, 11.30am-12.30pm; basketball training, 12.30pm-2.30pm.

HAYWARD Leisure Centre, Lever Edge Lane, Hayward, tel: 656819: indoor bowls, 1pm-4pm; astro turf, 1pm-5pm; trampoline club, 2pm-4pm.

Horwich Leisure Centre, Victoria Road, tel: 692211: main pool, 9am-4.40pm; small pool, 9.30am-4.40pm; light impact, 10am-11am; high impact, 11am-12 noon.

JUBILEE Pool, Darley Street, Bolton, tel: 393321: swimming lessons, 9am-12.30pm; public swim, 1pm-3.30pm.

Kearsley Leisure Centre, Springfield Road, Kearsley, tel: 709250: long mat indoor bowls (doubles league), 9.30am-12 noon; long mat indoor bowls (casual bookings), 12 noon-4pm.

Little Lever Leisure Centre, Church Street, Little Lever, tel: 708250: basketball, 9am-10am; trampolining all day; squash courts available from 9am-5pm; badminton courts, table tennis, 9am-5pm.

Sharples Leisure Centre, Hillcot Road, Sharples, tel: 301444: gymnastics, 10am-11am; Sharples Junior Netball, 10am-12 noon; gymnastics, 11am-12 noon; Shrimps swimming lessons, 11am-1pm; family fun swim, 1pm-3pm; trampolining, 1.45pm-3.15pm.

TURTON Leisure Centre, Chapeltown Road, Bromley Cross, tel: 595654: junior swimming lessons, 9.30am-2.15pm; Soo Bahk Do Korean Martial Art, 10am-11.30am; Roller Hockey sessions, 11am-1pm; one to one lessons, 2.15pm-4.30pm.

WATER Place: Tone Zone/sunbed, 7.30am-10pm.

Westhoughton Leisure Centre, Bolton Road, Westhoughton, tel: 01942 814030: soccer coaching, 10am-1pm; fun swim, 2pm-4pm; roller skating, 2.30pm-4pm, £1.50 per session, tel: Mrs Heaton on 01942 811051.

WITHINS Leisure Centre, Newby Road, Breightmet, tel: 395980: boys only gymnastics coaching, 10am-12 noon; badminton coaching, 10.30am-11.30am; roller skating, 12.30pm-2pm.

CIRCUIT Training sessions for children, 5pm-6pm and adults 6pm-7pm are held at Gibbon Street Community Centre. Admission free. For further details tel: 528786. Other events LANCASHIRE Mining Museum curator Alan Davies is leading a tour around the surface of Wet Earth Colliery. Strong boots essential. To book tel: 0161 793 4219.

BOLTON Wildlife Watch Club for young wildlife enthusiasts aged 8 to 12. Tel: Angela Downing on 361847 or Tricia Harper on 844803 (evenings) to find out more about their activities.

THE Knights of Longshanks is holding an open day to recruit new members performing medieval combat and other activities, Rivington Barn, 12 noon.

BOLTON Deaf Society is holding an advice and information session at the Centre for Deaf People, Bark Street from 9am-1pm. Tel: Gillian Gregory on 521219 for further information.

HORWICH Resource Centre, Beaumont Road: Horwich Heritage Centre, 10am-2pm; RSPCA, advice and information session with identity collar discs available, 11am-1pm.

A COFFEE Morning is being held Westhoughton Methodist Church, Wigan Road, 9.30am.

CRISIS Pregnancy Counselling at St Luke's Church, Halliwell, 10.30am-12.30pm.

ST Edmund's Parish Church, St Edmund Street, Bolton, weekday mass 12.15pm and Vigil Mass, 7pm.

OUR Lady and The Lancashire Martyrs, Hallstead Avenue, Little Hulton, Mass, 6pm.

BOLTON Museum and Art Gallery, Le Mans Crescent: Thomas Moran's Nearing Camp, Evening on the Upper Colorado River, 1882 and other work by Turner, Ruskin and Moran's British influences; The Unexplained: Photographs of the Paranormal showing photographs of the supernatural including UFOs, aliens, Nessie and Bigfoot; Beauty and the Beast exploring the exotic world of animal life and costume through shape, colour and form, 10am-5pm; The Big Exhibition featuring work curated and created by Big Issue in the North in collaboraton with Alan Dunn featuring collages and posters covering social issues surrounding homelessness, 10am-5pm.

TURTON Tower, Chapeltown Road: exhibition of corn and straw (Horsfall Collection) showing corn dollies, fertility symbols, hats, marquetry, unidentified items, contemporary wood craft collections of furniture, automata and world carvings, 2pm-5pm.

HARWOOD Library, Breightmet Drive: Closer To Nature: Preserving Bolton's Open Spaces exhibition by Bolton Documentary Photographers.

FARNWORTH Library, Tonge Moor Road: Merrie England, a library display to promote reading with a medieval theme.

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