FRIDAY

HELLO Dolly is being performed at The Albert Halls at 7.15pm. Tel: 302602 for further information.

SAILOR Beware is on show at St Vincent's Parish Centre at 7.30pm. Tel: 64049 for further information.

CALL (Charity at Local Level) is holding a beginners line dancing session at the Sutton Community Centre, Addington Road, off Wigan Road from 3pm-4pm. Admission is £1.50. For further information tel: 64678 or 653054.

BOLTON Autumn Choir require male and female members for choir rehearsals at Age Concern, Ashburner Street from 5.30pm-7pm. For further details tel: 706055 or 01942 819791.

BOLTON Choral Union is holding rehearsals Handel's Messiah which they are performing at Victoria Hall on December 5. For further information of the venue and times tel: 492301.

Horwich Resource Centre, Beaumont Road, 2.15pm Afternoon Tea Dance. LEISURE, SPORT AND KEEP FIT BOLTON Excel: stretch and relax, 10am-11am.

DEANE Leisure Centre: junior swimming lessons for 10 weeks, 5.30pm-7.30pm; kung fu, 6.30pm-8.30pm; weight inductions, 7pm-9pm.

FARNWORTH Leisure Centre: morning refreshers swim, 7am-7.30am; fitness suite, 7am-9pm; open session, 9am-6.30pm; session for people with disabilities, 12 noon-1.15pm; ladies only, 6.30pm-7.30pm.

HARPER Green Leisure Centre: youth club, 5.30pm-7pm; badminton, tennis floodlit astro turf, 8.30pm-10.30pm.

HAYWARD Leisure Centre: kids sports night, 6.30pm-8.30pm.

HORWICH Leisure Centre: morning refreshers swim, 7am-7.30am; early morning swim, 7.30am-9am; main pool, 9am-7.40pm; aerobics, 10am-11am; body conditioning, 11am-12 noon; step class, 12 noon-1pm; small pool, 3.30pm-4.15pm and 6pm-7.40pm; Hi NRG, 6.15pm-7.15pm.

HORWICH Resource Centre, Beaumont Road, Yoga for beginners 7pm.

KEARSLEY Leisure Centre: step aerobics, 5.30pm-6.30pm; weights room, 6pm-8pm.

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

Sharples Leisure Centre: karate, 6.30pm-8.30pm.

Turton Leisure Centre, junior soccer skills, 5.30pm-6.30pm; open swim session, 5.30pm-8.30pm; junior gymnastics Turton Tumblers for 3 to 5 year olds, 5.30pm-6.30pm; junior gymnastics for 5+ years, 6pm-7pm; junior gymnastics advanced, 7pm-8pm.

WATER Place: morning refreshers swim, 7am-7.30am; Tone Zone/sunbed, 7.30am-10pm; early risers swim, 7.30am-9am; Tone Zone (Young at Heart 50+), 9.30am-12 noon; waterobics, 11am-12 noon; general swim, 11am-12 noon; lunch break swim, 12 noon-2pm; Lifestyle Club (Age Concern 50+), 2pm-4pm; after work swim, 4.30pm-7pm.

WITHINS Leisure Centre: casual badminton, 5.30pm-10.30pm.

BOLTON and District Table Tennis League is holding a table tennis session for the over 50s from 1pm-3pm and for senior, juniors and families from 7pm-9pm at the Hilton Table Tennis and Community Centre, Nuttall Avenue, Horwich.

KEEP fit at Sutton Community Centre, Addington Road, off Wigan Road from 1.30pm-3pm. Tel: 646789 or 653054.

THE Fitness Consultancy is holding Fitclub with fun and fitness activites for 7 to 11 year olds at Sharples CP School, Hugh Lupus Street, Sharples at 3.45pm. Tel: 598242.

YOGA by the CES, Clarence Street Community Centre, 1pm-2.30pm.

BOLTON YMCA, 125 Deansgate: secondhand book sale, 10am-12 noon; slot car racing, 7pm; Friday Club for 13 to 24 year olds, 6.30pm. CLUBS AND GROUP MEETINGS BOLTON Witness Support Service is holding a meeting for people having problems with anti-social behaviour in their neighbourhood or those who are concerned about attending court or know of someone who is and wish to have an informal chat, receive information about court procedure and the support available to potential witnesses at the Outreach Centre, Albert Road, Farnworth. For further information tel: Maureen on 0161 793 7333.

BOLTON Anglo-French Circle is holding a conversaton group at the Central Library, Le Mans Crescent at 7.30pm.

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

Ladybridge Pre-School meet at Ladybridge Community Centre, Beaumont Drive, 9am-12 noon. The group is currently taking names for the September 98 intake. For further details tel: Karen Higson on 651397 (anytime) or 660353 during opening hours.

PLAYGROUP, St Paul's, Peel, for further information tel: Karen Tomkinson on 0161 703 7455.

THE Bully Free Zone is holding a drop-in for young people or parents of young people suffering or concerned about bullying at The Bay, Marsden Road, 10am-12 noon. For further information tel: Cath Rose on 430418.

THE Westhoughton Area Junior Youth Centre is open to children age 10 to 13 at the John Holt Centre from 6pm-8.30pm.

THE Church Lads; and Church Girls' Brigade meet at the Parish of St Matthew with St Barnabas, Stowell Street from 6.45pm.

3RD Worsley Scouts meet at St Paul's, Peel, 7.15pm-9.30pm. Tel: 0161 790 5781.

THE Westhoughton Age Support Project (WASP) is holding a bingo session at the Westhoughton Central Drive Community Centre from 7.30pm-9pm. For further information tel: Mrs Sesson on 01942 812982 or 813321.

A youth club for children age 11 and over is open at the Salvation Army, Bolton Citadel, St Georges Road at 7pm.

TURNING Point Young People's Group meet at Bolton Pentecostal Church, Bury New Road at 7.30pm. OTHER EVENTS BOLTON Deaf Society, Bark Street: advice and information centre, 9am-1pm. Tel: Gillian Gregory on 521219.

HORWICH Resource Centre, Beaumont Road, Lunch Club & Social afternoon over 60s 11am. Creative Crafts 1pm; sign on for Shopability Registration/Membership 11am.

WESTHOUGHTON Community Centre: Under 5's, 9.30am-11.30am and 1pm-3pm; Art Circle, 9.30am-11.30am; drama, 1pm-3pm.

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

LITTLERPICKERS meet at St Matthew with St Barnabas, Stowell Street from 4pm-5.45pm.

MASS is held at St Edmund's Church, St Edmund Street, Bolton at 12.15pm.

BOLTON Museum and Art Gallery, Le Mans Crescent: a Watercolour Landscapes picturesque exhibition from around Britain and through Europe and 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 exhibition which focuses on the amateur football league and the vital role football has played in the leisure time of people.

CENTRAL Library, Le Mans Crescent: a display case taking a fresh look at guiding with the Girl Guides and in the audio visual library a selectin of favourite short pieces of classical music.

SALFORD Art Club is celebrating its Golden Jubilee with an exhibition of book design by local artists.

watercolours, drawings and oil paintings from founding members, work by local school children and current members at the Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Peel Park, The Crescent, Salford from 10am-4.45pm.

THE Panto Exhibition is on display at Ordsall Hall Museum, 322 Ordsall Lane, Salford from 10am-12.30pm and 1.30pm-5pm.

PHOTOGRAPHS by Andrew O'Connell showing the concrete industry are on display in the Viewpoint Photographer Gallery, The Old Fire Station, The Crescent, Salford from 9.30am-5pm.

NORTH West film maker Fraser McMillan is exhibiting a collection of unconventional abstract landscapes in the Portfolio Gallery, Salford from 9.30am-5pm.

FACING Coal, a collection of artworks based on a mining theme starting from 1939 and including work by Graham Sutherland, Joseph Hermann, Sir Stanley Spencer and Roger Hampson and work by ex-miners and artists brought up in mining communities is on display at the Lancashire Mining Museum, Buile Hill Park, Eccles Old Road, Salford from 10am.

RELIGIOUS Festival parades from the 50s and 60s in Salford are depicted in an exhibition at the Salford Quays Heritage Centre, 3 The Quays, Salford from 9am-4.30pm.

THE Irlam Heritage Unit has a display showing the halcyon days of travel including AA maps, RAC car badges, models of steam liners, old suitcases, leather goggles, omnibus tickets and well-travelled passports at Irlam Library, Hurst Fold, Liverpool Road from 9.30am-12.30pm and 1.30pm-5.30pm.

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