GILBERT and Sullivan's Patience, staged at the parish hall, has proved hugely popular. All tickets for the remaining two performances are sold out! Please ring Robert Hood-Wright on (01531) 640234 for details of any returns or cancellations.

Bosbury Parish Hall 100 club draw, winners for October - £20 P Parry, £10 M West, £5 D Gape, E Kerr, F Krinks.

Friends of Bosbury School (FOBS) hold their Christmas fair at the parish hall on Friday, December 9, 1.30pm-4pm. Stalls include home-made gifts and crafts, tombola, raffle and scrumptious cake stalls.

At the parish hall in the evening, Christmas bingo in aid of BCI (charities for children with kidney problems). Doors open 7pm, eyes down 8pm.

On Sunday (December 4) there is an 11am service at Holy Trinity, Bosbury. Modern morning prayer with hymns and worship songs. On Sunday, December 11, parish communion is at 9.30am and in the evening at 6.30pm a Christmas concert by Vital Spark. Vital Spark West Gallery Choir's concert in July was so enthusiastically received that they have been invited back for a Christmas Celebration. Expect to hear the Christmas carols of Thomas Hardy's time and other contemporary Christmas music performed with enormous verve and jollity by outstanding voices and diverse instruments. Tickets adult £6, children £3, family £15. Available from Esther Kay on (01531) 670634 or at the door.