BOLTON and District Pipe Band is celebrating a belated Burns Night with guest bands, music and ceili dancing at Dixon Green Labour Club, Farnworth, at 7.30pm. Tickets are £5 including a traditional supper of haggis, neeps and tatties (mashed potatoes and swede) and are available from Pipe Major Byron Griffiths on 572346.

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 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.

BOLTON YMCA, 125 Deansgate: modern sequence dancing, 6.30pm.

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. BOLTON Excel: football drop in 9am-10am; junior fitness, 9am-10am, 10am-11am and 11am -12 noon; basketball drop in 10am-12 noon.

DEANE Leisure Centre: weights gym, 9am-5pm; junior swimming lessons for 10 weeks, 9am-12 noon; trampoline junior coaching, 11am-1pm; junior badminton coaching, 11am-1.15pm; karate, 12 noon-3.30pm; kids mad splash, 2pm-3.30pm.

FARNWORTH Leisure Centre: open session in pool, 9am-4.15pm; fitness suite, 9am-4pm; families only, 10.30am-3.30pm.

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

HAYWARD Leisure Centre: Tai Chi, 10.30am-12 noon; indoor short mat bowling, 1pm-4pm; trampolining club, 2pm-4pm.

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

KEARSLEY Leisure Centre: long mat indoor bowls (doubles league), 9.30am-12 noon; long mat indoor bowls (casual bookings), 12 noon-4pm.

LITTLE Lever Leisure Centre: basketball, 9am-10am; trampolining all day.

Sharples Leisure Centre: gymnastics, 10am-11am; Sharples Netball Club for over 14 years, 10am-11am and under 14s, 11am-12 noon; kid's Saturday splash, 1pm-3.30pm.

TURTON Leisure Centre: junior swimming lessons, 9.30am-1.45pm; Soo Bohk Do Korean Martial Art, 10am-11.30am.

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

Westhoughton Leisure Centre: 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: badminton, 10am-12 noon; casual badminton, 10am-4pm.

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.

BOLTON YMCA, 125 Deansgate: African drumming and dance club, 10am; junior snooker classes, 9.15am; Tae Kwon Do (sel f defence), 10.30am. CLUBS & GROUP MEETINGS BOLTON Conservation Volunteers is holding a post Xmas meal at Alandens Restaurant, Chorley Old Road, Bolton at 6.30pm. For further information tel: co-ordinator Rick Parker on 01942 817302. A second hand book sale is being held at Bolton YMCA, 125 Deansgate from 10am-12 noon.

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.

CENTRAL Library, Le Mans Crescent: Screen Reads, books, films and TV tie-ins in the display case and in the audio visual room the talking book of the film.

THOMAS Moran's masterpiece Nearing Camp, Evening on the Upper Colorado River, 1882 and work by Turner, Ruskin and Moran's other British influences are on display at Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, Le Mans Crescent.

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