THEATRE, music & DANCE THE Farnworth Aces Morris Dancers is holding a practice night for girls age 15 and upwards at the New Bury Community Centre, Buckley Lane, Farnworth at 6.30pm.

A CHOIR practice session is held at St John the Evangelist, Wingates at 7pm.

BOLTON and District Pipe Band is holding a practice night for pipers and drummers at the Tonge Moor United Reformed Club, Starkie Road, Bolton from 8pm-10pm. For further information tel: 706382.

THE Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann Irish Music Association is holding beginners and advanced Irish music sessions on various instruments at the Balmoral Hotel, Great Moor Street from 8pm. For further information tel: Nula on 794036.

Horwich RMI AODS, rehearsals, Horwich Parish Top School, Church Street, 8pm. LEISURE, SPORT AND KEEP FIT BOLTON Excel: Thrill and Chill, 12.10pm-12.50pm; 50+ badminton, table tennis, squash and gym, 1pm-3pm; body conditioning, 2pm-3pm; step 6pm-7pm and 7pm-8pm.

DEANE Leisure Centre: weights gym, 4.30pm-10.30pm; junior swimming lessons for 10 weeks, 5.30pm-7.30pm; junior gym coaching for 10 weeks, 5.45pm-7.15pm; weights induction, 7pm-9pm; karate, 7.30pm-9pm; adults only swim, 9.15pm-10.15pm; blue water sub aqua, 9.30pm-10.30pm.

FARNWORTH Leisure Centre: morning refreshers swim, 7am-7.30am; fitness suite, 7am-9am; open session in pool, 9am-7pm; parents and tots, 12 noon-1.15pm; adult lane swim, 7pm-8pm; splash aerobics, 8.20pm-9.05pm.

HARPER Green Leisure Centre: badminton, tennis, floodlit astro turf, 8.30pm-10pm.

HORWICH Leisure Centre: morning refreshers swim, 7am-7.30am; early morning swim, 7.30am-8am; main pool, 8am-8.40pm; ladies fitness morning, 9.30am-12.30pm; body conditioning, 11am-12 noon; step class, 12 noon-1pm; 50+ keep fit, 1pm-2pm and 2pm-3pm; small pool, 3.30pm-4.15pm and 6pm-7.30pm; aerobics, 6pm-7pm; aqua aerobics, 7.30pm-8.30pm; adults only swim, 9pm-10.30pm.

KEARSLEY Leisure Centre: aerobics, 6.30pm-7.30pm.

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

SHARPLES Leisure Centre: football course, 5.30pm-6.30pm and 6.30pm-7.30pm; open session in pool, 5.30pm-6.30pm; beginners aerobics, 6.15pm-7.15pm.

TURTON Leisure Centre: 50+ swim, 5.30pm-6.30pm; fitness session for 8 to 13 year olds, 6.30pm-7.30pm; women's self defence, 6.30pm-7.30pm; adults only swim, 6.30pm-8.30pm; aerobics, 7.30pm-8.30pm; step aerobics, 8.30pm-9.30pm; laned swim, 8.30pm-10pm.

HORWICH Resource Centre, Beaumont Road, 9.30am Ceramics for Pleasure, 12 noon WASPS Looking good/Feeling good, 1pm Confidence Building, 6.30pm St. John Badgers, 7pm Art Level 1/2.

WATER Place: morning refreshers swim, 7am-7.30am; Tone Zone/sunbed, 7.30am-10pm; early risers swim, 7.30am-9am; stretch and relax, 10am-11am; kinderswim, 10.30am-12 noon; lunch break swim, 12 noon-2pm; step aerobics, 12.15pm-1.15pm.

Westhoughton Leisure Centre: 50+ swimming, 12.45pm-1.15pm; parents and tots, 2pm-3pm; junior soccer coaching, 5.30pm-6.30pm; aerobics, 6.30pm-7.30pm.

WITHINS Leisure Centre: gymnastics, 5.15pm-6.15pm; 5-a-side football, 5.30pm-6.30pm; line dancing, 7pm-8pm; trampolining, 7.30pm-8.15pm; step aerobics, 8pm-9pm.

BOLTON 6th Form College, Smithills Dean Road: line dancing, 7pm-8pm; aerobics, 8pm-9pm. Tel: 846215.

BOLTON YMCA, 125 Deansgate: scalextric club, 7pm; junior football, 6pm; secondhand book sale, 10am-12 noon. CLUBS & GROUP MEETINGS BOLTON Community Health Council is holding a meeting in the Training Room, St Peter's House, Silverwell Street from 7.30pm.

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

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

THE FIrst Steps Mums and Toddlers group meet at St Paul's Peel, 10am-12 noon.

SENIOR Citizens and disabled people are invited to a luncheon club at Trinity Methodist Church, Bury Road from 12 noon. For further information tel: 524453.

A luncheon club providing a proper dinner and sweet with tea and coffee followed by a game of dominoes is held at Barlow Park Community Centre, off Dunoon Drive from 12 noon. Admission is £1.50.

A social club for the elderly is held at St Edmund's Church Hall, off Deansgate from 12.45pm.

THE Thursday Group arranging social activities, crafts, games and refreshments is held at Somerset Road UR Church, off Chorley New Road, Heaton from 1.30pm-3.30pm.

THE Rainbow Healing Group is demonstrating healing, meditation and relaxation exercises with an informal talk at the Friends' Meeting House, Silverwell Street, Bolton from 5.15pm-7.30pm.

THE Children's Club meets at the Zion Christian Fellowhsip, Slater Street, 6.15pm.

THE 3rd Worsley Beaver Colony for 6 to 8 year olds meets at St Paul's, Peel, 6.30pm-7.30pm.

THE Westhoughton Friendship Club is meeting at the Carnegie Hall, Library Street, Westhoughton from 6.45pm-9.45pm. For further information tel: 01942 811222.

BOLTON Art Circle is holding a workshop at Highfield Hall Community Centre, Marsh Lane, Farnworth from 7pm-9pm. For further information tel: 847607.

ARTHRITIS Care is meeting at Jubilee Centre, Darley Street, Bolton from 7.30pm-9.30pm. For further information tel: 795596.

ST John Ambulance is holding a meeting to recruit volunteers to train as first aiders at Age Concern headquarters, Moor Lane bus station at 7.30pm. For further information tel: John Fisher on 846343.

THE Writers' Group meet at Wolfenden Community Centre at 7.30pm.

WESTHOUGHTON Age Support Project is holding a prize bingo session at Westhoughton Community Centre from 7.30pm-9.30pm.

A Friendship group for men and women age 55-65 meets in the Coffee Rooms, Walkden Congregational Church, Harriet Street. For further information tel: 0161 799 3953.

THE Rainbows and Brownies meet at St Paul's Peel, 6.15pm-7.30pm. For further information tel: 0161 748 7508. OTHER EVENTS A bonfire and fireworks spectacular with the Walk the Plank Theatre Company performing a musical fireworks display take splace at Buile Hall Park, Eccles Old Road, Salford from 6.45pm.

THE Round Table have organised a fireworks and bonfirem night at Parr Fold Park, Salford at 6.30pm.

THE products of Eccles - 125 years of saving lives is the subject of a talk on the history of mining lamp safety by David Mather at Eccles Library, Barton Lane entrance, Church Street, Eccles at 2pm.

WESTHOUGHTON Community Centre: under 5;s 9.30am-11.30am; Women's Group, 1pm-3pm; flower arranging, 7pm-9pm.

BOLTON Deaf Society, Bark Street: advice and information session, 9am-1pm; British Sign Language Classes (Stages 1 and 2); for further information tel: Gillian Gregory on 521219.

A bereavement support drop-in is held at Our Lady and the Lancashire Martyrs, Hallstead Avenue, Little Hulton from 10am-11am.

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

A Thursday cafe with home-made food is held at Bank Street Chapel, via the Crown Street door entrance, opposite the multi-storey car park from 10.30am-2pm.

OUR Lady and the Lancashire Martyrs parish holds a mass in St Ann's Hospice at 3pm.

BOLTON Museum and Art Gallery, Le Mans Crescent: a picturesque exhibition of watercolour landscapes from around Britain and through Europe; an exhibition of Bolton Visual Arts Collective showing a range of work from ceramics to book design by local artists; Transparent Room, a video installation by Michael Pinsky; More Than A Game taking a look at the amateur football league and the role football has played in the lives of ordinary people.

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

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

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