Auction of promises

SITTING in on a show on Classic Gold Radio, a signed bat from Worcester Cricket Club and a half day's free marketing consultancy are among a host of items to be offered at a Promises auction held at Huntingdon Hall, Worcester, on July 6 (8pm).

Canadian display

CANADIAN potter Sidney Hardwick will be exhibiting her work throughout July in the Oxfordshire Craft Guild Marketing Co-operative craft shop in Chipping Norton. Sidney specialises in domestic and decorative pottery, making grand and statuesque candle holders, lamp bases, plant holders, domestic stoneware and decorated wash basins.

A laughing matter

BIRMINGHAM's Repertory Theatre continues its summer season with the tale of Noel Coward's Present Laughter, which runs until July 22. Tickets: 0121 236 4455.