VILLAGER Hannah Rees stepped in at the eleventh hour to fill the speakers role at Culcheth WI.

Hannah, a student at Manchester University, spent her summer vacation on a voluntary teaching placement in Ghana.

She told of her experiences over six weeks with the children and living with the people, stressing how important they thought education was.

The group AGM is on November 15 and volunteers are needed to fill committee places which will become vacant due to retirement.

Subscriptions will rise to £22 next year.

Jill Scattergood asked for members of the craft group to take samples of their years work along to the planned coffee morning.

The next meeting is on October 18 at 2pm in the Parish Hall when David Mitchell's topic will be "For Crying Out Loud."