THEATRE, music AND DANCE THE Phoenix Theatre Company present Hindle Wakes at Chorley Old Road United Reformed Church Hall at 7.30pm. For further information tel: 840448.

ST Paul's Amateur Players present Fiddler On The Roof at the Community Centre, Railway Road, Adlington at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £4.50, £5 and £5.50 with group theatre night specials including a cheese and wine supper available at £7 per head. For information regarding tickets and the group theatre night specials tel: the secretary on 01257 480144 or for tickets only tel: Tyrers Coaches of Adlington on 01257 480979.

THE world famous cricket umpire Dickie Bird is appearing at the Albert Halls with stories of his life in cricket at 8pm. Tickets cost £11 and £9 available from the box office or tel: 364333.

A charity line dance to raise funds for Pendlebury Children's Hospital is being held at Swinton Palais, 11A Station Road from 7pm to midnight. Tickets are £2.50. Tel: 0161 794 0459 for further details.

BOLTON Autumn Choir require male and female members for choir rehearsals at Age Concern, Ashburner Street from 5.30pm-7pm. For further details tel: 706055 or 01942 819791.

BOLTON Choral Union is holding rehearsals for Hayden's Creation. For further information of the venue and times tel: 492301.

JOIN St Paul's (Astley Bridge) Amateur Operatic Society for rehearsals at St Paul's Church, Seymour Road, Astley Bridge at 8pm. For further information tel: 307187. LEISURE, SPORT AND KEEP FIT BOLTON Excel: stretch and relax, 10am-11am.

DEANE Leisure Centre: junior swimming lessons for 10 weeks, 5.30pm-7.30pm; kung fu, 6.30pm-8.30pm; weight inductions, 7pm-9pm.

FARNWORTH Leisure Centre: morning refreshers swim, 7am-7.30am; fitness suite, 7am-9pm; open session, 9am-6.30pm; session for people with disabilities, 12 noon-1.15pm; ladies only, 6.30pm-7.30pm.

HARPER Green Leisure Centre: youth club, 5.30pm-7pm; badminton, tennis floodlit astro turf, 8.30pm-10.30pm.

HAYWARD Leisure Centre: kids sports night, 6.30pm-8.30pm.

Horwich Leisure Centre: morning refreshers swim, 7am-7.30am; early morning swim, 7.30am-9am; main pool, 9am-7.40pm; aerobics, 10am-11am; body conditioning, 11am-12 noon; step class, 12 noon-1pm; small pool, 3.30pm-4.15pm and 6pm-7.40pm; Hi NRG, 6.15pm-7.15pm.

HORWICH Resource Centre, Beaumont Road: yoga for beginners 7pm.

KEARSLEY Leisure Centre: step aerobics, 5.30pm-6.30pm; weights room, 6pm-8pm.

LITTLE Lever Leisure Centre: karate, 7.30pm-8.30pm.

Sharples Leisure Centre: karate, 6.30pm-8.30pm.

Turton Leisure Centre, junior soccer skills, 5.30pm-6.30pm; open swim session, 5.30pm-8.30pm; junior gymnastics Turton Tumblers for 3 to 5 year olds, 5.30pm-6.30pm; junior gymnastics for 5+ years, 6pm-7pm; junior gymnastics advanced, 7pm-8pm.

WATER Place: morning refreshers swim, 7am-7.30am; Tone Zone/sunbed, 7.30am-10pm; early risers swim, 7.30am-9am; Tone Zone (Young at Heart 50+), 9.30am-12 noon; waterobics, 11am-12 noon; general swim, 11am-12 noon; lunch break swim, 12 noon-2pm; Lifestyle Club (Age Concern 50+), 2pm-4pm; after work swim, 4.30pm-7pm.

WITHINS Leisure Centre: casual badminton, 5.30pm-10.30pm.

BOLTON and District Table Tennis League is holding a table tennis session for the over 50s from 1pm-3pm and for senior, juniors and families from 7pm-9pm at the Hilton Table Tennis and Community Centre, Nuttall Avenue, Horwich.

KEEP fit at Sutton Community Centre, Addington Road, off Wigan Road from 1.30pm-3pm. Tel: 646789 or 653054.

THE Fitness Consultancy is holding Fitclub with fun and fitness activites for 7 to 11 year olds at Sharples CP School, Hugh Lupus Street, Sharples at 3.45pm. Tel: 598242.

YOGA by the CES, Clarence Street Community Centre, 1pm-2.30pm. CLUBS AND GROUP MEETINGS BOLTON Anglo-French Circle will be joined by Mlle O. Jacques speaking about Les Vosges in the Central Library, Le Mans Crescent at 7.30pm.

THE MhIST (Mental Health Independent Support Team) is holding a self help depression group meeting at Deajon House, 30 Chorley New Road from 12.15pm-2pm. For further information tel: 527200.

BOLTON Burns Club is holding its Presidents' Night at the Social Centre for the Blind. For further information tel: Miss J Richardson on 384821.

TOT Stop Pre-School group meet at Bolton Pentecostal Church, Bury New Road, 9am-12 noon and 1pm-4pm. Tel: 361704.

Ladybridge Pre-School meet at Ladybridge Community Centre, Beaumont Drive, 9am-12 noon. For further details tel: Karen Higson on 651397 (anytime) or 660353 during opening hours.

PLAYGROUP, St Paul's, Peel, for further information tel: Karen Tomkinson on 0161 703 7455.

THE Bully Free Zone is holding a drop-in for young people or parents of young people suffering or concerned about bullying at The Bay, Marsden Road, 10am-12 noon. For further information tel: Cath Rose on 430418.

PARENT and Toddler session, Heywood Adventure Playworld, 1pm-2.30pm. For further information tel: Monica on 523408.

THE Parents Group providing information about services available to parents meets at Haslam Park CP School, Wigan Road during term time from 2pm-3pm.

THE Westhoughton Area Junior Youth Centre is open to children age 10 to 13 at the John Holt Centre from 6pm-8.30pm.

THE Church Lads' and Church Girls' Brigade meet at the Parish of St Matthew with St Barnabas, Stowell Street from 6.45pm.

3RD Worsley Scouts meet at St Paul's, Peel, 7.15pm-9.30pm. Tel: 0161 790 5781.

THE Westhoughton Age Support Project (WASP) is holding a bingo session at the Westhoughton Central Drive Community Centre from 7.30pm-9pm. For further information tel: Mrs Sesson on 01942 812982 or 813321.

A youth club for children age 11 and over is open at the Salvation Army, Bolton Citadel, St Georges Road at 7pm.

TURNING Point Young People's Group meet at Bolton Pentecostal Church, Bury New Road at 7.30pm. OTHER EVENTS TERRY Lewis, MP is holding an advice bureau session at Higher Folds Labour Club, Kensington Drive, Higher Folds, Leigh from 7.30pm-8.30pm.

AS part of the Women's World Day of Prayer a talk entitled God's Tender Touch prepared by the Christian Women of Venezuela will take place at the following churches: Bank Street Chapel with the Rev. Carol Braithwaite at 2pm, Bank Top Church, Ashworth Lane with Miss L McCullugh at 7.30pm; St Catherine's Church, Richmond Street, Horwich with the Rev. Elaine Chegwin-Hall at 7.30pm.

BOLTON YMCA, 125 Deansgate: second hand book sale, 10am-4pm; slot car racing, 7pm; Friday Club - music for fun, 6.30pm.

BOLTON Deaf Society, Bark Street: advice and information centre, 9am-1pm. Tel: Gillian Gregory on 521219.

COFFEE Morning, Zion Community Church, Slater Street, Halliwell, 10am-12 noon.

HORWICH Resource Centre, Beaumont Road: lunch club and social afternoon over 60s 11am-3pm; creative crafts 1pm-3pm; sign on for Shopability Registration/Membership 11am-12 noon; afternoon tea dance, 2.15pm-4.15pm; Aquarian Therapies - yoga for beginners, 7.30pm-9.30pm, tel: Sue or David on 691232.

WESTHOUGHTON Community Centre: Under 5's, 9.30am-11.30am and 1pm-3pm; Art Circle, 9.30am-11.30am; drama, 1pm-3pm.

A drop-in centre with a food and clothing store and a Citizens Advice Bureau service is held at St Luke's Church, Chorley Old Road, Bolton from 10am-3pm.

LITTERPICKERS meet at St Matthew with St Barnabas, Stowell Street from 4pm-5.45pm.

MASS is held at St Edmund's Church, St Edmund Street, Bolton at 12.15pm.

BOLTON Museum and Art Gallery, Le Mans Crescent: Thomas Moran's Nearing Camp, Evening on the Upper Colorado River, 1882 and work by Turner, Ruskin and Moran's other British influences; Jerry Gordon: The Harmony and Diversity of Sacred Sites showing oil paintings by the Lancashire artist who has made it his mission to visit and paint the world's most sacred sites by the Millennium; The Unexplained: Photographs of the Paranormal showing a series a photographs documenting UFOs, aliens, Nessie and Bigfoot; Beauty and the Beast exploring the exotic world of animal life and costume through shape, colour and form, 9.30am-5.30pm.

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