THE National Choir Festival - Lancashire Federation Round with choirs from Barton, Clayton le Woods, Hambleton, Simonstone with Read and Whitechapel and Inglewhite will be held in Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, West Park Road, Blackburn at 3pm.

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.

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

AN introduction to yoga is being held at Clarence Street Centre. For further information tel: 525500. HORWICH Heritage is holding a gift fair to raise group funds at the Horwich Resource Centre, Beaumont Road from 10am-3pm.

Harwood Painting Group is holding an open day displaying original paintings, demonstrations, sculptures and drawings by members at Walsh's Institute, Harwood from 10am-4pm. Admission is 50p including refreshments.

BANK Street Chapel is holding an autumn fayre with home made cakes, Christmas gifts, bric a brac, books, raffles, tombola and bottlebola games for children and refreshments from 10.30am-3pm to raise church funds. Admission free.

YOUNG wildlife enthusiasts age 8-12 are invited to join Bolton Wildlife Watch Club. Tel: Angela Downing at the Bolton Wildlife Project on 361847 or Tricia Harper on 844803 (evenings) for further information.

BURY Horticultural Society is holding its annual flower show at Holy Trinity School, Cecil Street, Bury from 1pm-5pm. Admission is 20p with refreshments available.

BOLTON YMCA, 125 Deansgate: African drumming and dance club, 10am; secondhand book sale, 10am-12 noon; junior snooker classes, 9.15am; Tae Kwon Do, 10.30am; modern sequence dancing, 6.30pm.

A FIREWORK display with food available in the school hall is being held at Parochial CE School, Westhoughton at 7.30pm. Adults £2 and children £1 payable on the door or family tickets in advance are available from the school for £5 for 2 adults and children. Tel: 812448 for further details.

THE Bolton Group of the Ramblers' Association has arranged a coach ramble to Calderdale Way. For further information tel: 699737.

VIOLET, a 250 HP Pollitt and Wigzell Horizontal Tandem Compound is one of the steam engines on display at Nortonthorpe Mills, Scissett, Huddersfield from 12 noon-5pm. The mill is about 6 miles from junction 39 off the M1 following the signs for Denby Dale.

THE RSPCA is holding an advice and information centre at Horwich Resource Centre, Beaumont Road from 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: a display of Watercolour Landscapes showing views from around Britain and Europe; exhibition of Bolton Visual Arts Collectives by local artists showing a range of work from ceramics to book design called Worktown Arts; Transparent Room video installation by Michael Pinsky exhibition; More Than A Game, an exhibition looking at the amateur league and the role of football in the leisure time of ordinary people.

HARWOOD Library, Gate Fold: exhibition of paintings by Alice Thorpe and Beatrice Drury.

HALLIWELL Library, Hatfield Road: Reebok: the first year exhibition by Bolton Documentary Photographers.

BURY Art Gallery and Museum is displaying an exhibition Wash, Stipple and Brush showing watercolours by Anthony Devis from the 18th century, Peter de Wint from the 19th century and Ian Gardner from the 20th century.

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