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.

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; second hand book sale, 10am; junior snooker classes, 9.15am; Tae Kwon Do, 10.30am; modern sequence dancing, 6.30pm. SUNNYSIDE Nursing Home is holding its annual Christmas Fair at Adelaide Street, off St Helens Road, Daubhill at 2pm. For further information tel: 653694.

THE Only Foals and Horses Sanctuary is holding an open and adoption day with stalls, a sale of Christmas cards and pony rides at Houghton Barn Farm, Altham Lane, Altham.

A CHRISTMAS coffee morning is being held at Barlow Park Community Centre, near the Bowling Greens, off Dunoon Drive at 10am.

A RUMMAGE sale is being held at St Thomas of Canterbury, Lonsdale Road from 2pm.

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.

BOLTON Museum and Art Gallery, Le Mans Crescent: displays include a Transparent Room video installation by Michael Pinsky; More Than A Game, an exhibition looking at the amateur league and the role of football in the leisure time of ordinary people; Bolton Art Circle's annual exhibition; Open The Box, an exhibition of objects to touch.

HARWOOD Library, Gate Fold: exhibition by Bolton Progressive Threads showing modern and traditional textile arts.

Tonge Moor Library, Tonge Moor Road: Reebok: the first year exhibition by Bolton Documentary Photographers.

BOLTON Central Library, Le Mans Crescent: Reading Through Drama - a Christmas display celebrating the National Year of Reading; in the audio visual library ; a celebration of Christmas music entitled The Magic of Christmas. LEISURE, SPORT AND KEEP FIT

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