Music and pie

A POTATO/cheese pie supper will accompany a fine night of music by the Alan Bracewell Big Band. The show starts at 7.30 tonight at Oddies Club, Union Street, with proceeds going to Marie Curie Cancer. Call 0161-626 4466 for tickets.



HOLY Week and Easter services at St Anne’s Church, in Royton, get under way on April 1 with Palm Sunday. Maundy Thursday culminates in Watch of the Passion from 8.30pm-midnight and there’s a host of events on Good Friday. Easter Day eucharists are held at 8.30am and 10am.



SHAW British Legion is holding a coffee morning at St Paul’s Church, Rochdale Road on Saturday.



BARGAINS galore will be up for grabs at Dr Kershaw’s Easter bonanaza between 10am and 1pm on Saturday. Books, jewellery, toys and cakes will be on offer at the Turf Lane hospice.



FORMER St Anne’s or St Alban’s School pupils celebrating their 50th birthday between September, 2011, and August, 2012, are invited to a reunion at Heyside Cricket Club from 7.30pm on March 30. Contact Joe Warburton on 07882 848340 for more information.



ST PAUL’S restoration and development centre is holding a fundraising Easter Monday Walk. Tickets — adults £3.50 and children £2 — include pie and peas and are available by calling 0161-652 9573.



THE Crompton Local History Society holds its monthly meeting on Thursday next week. Open to all, the meeting will start at Crompton Library, Shaw, at 7.30pm.



EXCHANGE the frustrating commute home for lively discussion with new friends at the rush-hour reading group in Royton on Wednesday, 5.30-6.30pm.