CORONATION CELEBRATION - There will be a special coronation tea at the church hall, Knighton tomorrow (Friday) starting at 3pm. Adults £5. At the same time in St Edward’s church there will be several floral exhibits to mark the occasion. For more information, call 01547 520739.

KNIGHTON PILGRIMAGE – The Royal School of Music, Knighton pilgrimage will take place from tomorrow (Friday) to Sunday.

This will be the 11th annual pilgrimage when a group of musical Christians meet for the weekend. They then form a choir and travel to local churches to perform informal acts of worship.

The musical director is Geoff Weaver and the celebrant and leader of the liturgy is the Rev Anne Ballard. The pilgrimage will start tomorrow (Friday) with a walk and then there will be a service in Ackhill Baptist church at 2pm, St Michael’s church, Discoed, at 4pm and St Andrew’s church, Presteigne, at 7.30pm. On Saturday after a short train journey the first service will be at St Cynllo’s church, Llangunllo, then St Mary Magdalene, Bleddfa, at 3.30pm and St Michael’s church, Cascob, at 6.30pm. The last service will be on Sunday at 10.30am at St Edward’s church, Knighton. For further information, contact Sarah Green on 01547 560005.

CARNIVAL PRINCESS ATTENDANTS – There will be a children’s disco at the youth centre, Knighton tomorrow (Friday) from 6.30 until 8.30pm At the event this year’s Knighton show and carnival attendants will be chosen.

COMMUNITY MARKET – Knighton community market returns on Saturday, with the regular stalls, including the fantastically popular Fish-in-a-Box stall and welcoming Adam and Eve Spices. Also present for the morning and available for consultation will be Roger Williams MP, so members of the public are invited to come along to raise the issues that concern them with their parliamentary representative. Open from 9.30am to 12.30pm in Knighton community centre.

CAR WASH - Members of the Knighton Phoenix BMX/skate park group will be washing cars at Martin Neary’s garage in Crabtree Walk, Knighton, Saturday from 9am til 12noon. £4 per car.

CHURCH SERVICES FOR SUNDAY – St Edward’s church, Knighton, 10.30am Pilgrimage of song led by the Rev Melia Cope, St David’s church, Whitton, 9.30 morning worship led by John Clements, St Andrew’s church, Norton, 11am morning worship led by John Clements, Knighton Baptist church 11am led by the Rev Maggie Rich, Knighton Methodist church 11am led by Mrs J Evans, Knighton Catholic church celebration of Holy Mass 11am.

TEME VALLEY GARDENING CLUB – The Teme Valley gardening club will have a busy June with two outdoor visits planned. On Monday they will visit Westonbury Gardens in Pembridge and on June 25, Ashwood Gardens and Plants at Kingswinford. For the second outing the bus will be leaving Knighton at 9am and there are a few seats available. Please call 01547 529244 if you would like to go. The annual meeting took place in May, officers elected were president Mrs R Naylor, chairperson Mrs J Price, secretary Mrs A Hoyle and treasurer Mrs P Buckley. The Rudge cup was presented to Mrs Rose Morris for gaining the most points in competition over the last 12 months.

LLANFAIR WATERDINE WI – Llanfair Waterdine’s May meeting was entitled World Vision, an International Children’s’ Charity, with Anne Turner a World Vision Ambassador, who showed photographs with narrative about World Vision’s work. Ann also talked in detail about the children that she had sponsored through World Vision and how her support and that of others who sponsor a child had helped whole communities. The meeting was followed by a delicious supper provided by Margaret Clugston and Ann Harroway. The WI’s next meeting is at 7pm tomorrow (Friday), at Everest hall and is From Wales to the West Bank with Anne Mary Davies and Bev Lloyd. Anyone who would like to come along to one of our meetings and/or possibly join our WI will receive a very warm welcome.

Llanfair Waterdine WI did particularly well at the Radnor Federation county show on May 18. Ann Harroway won the Federation Cup for beginners’ floral, the staging and display team won the shield and we jointly won awards in two other categories. In addition, Kath Graham was also joint first for her flowers/foliage in a jam jar; Mary Morgan was 2nd for her five small fancy cakes and Barbara Carter 3rd for her photograph of Llanfair WI.

LIGHTFOOT INVITATION - Lightfoot would like to invite everyone in Powys, South Shropshire and Herefordshire to their office above the chemist in Bishops Castle for coffee and chat tomorrow (Friday) 10am to 1pm.

The volunteers achieved some great things last year, not least pushing Lightfoot into Environment Wales’ top 20 out of over 300 they currently support.

This year they have support from Environment Wales for an innovative project to find out “How people think about and use energy.” Mandy and the volunteers do hope you can make it, the coffee will be good and the chat interesting.

Mandy can be contacted on mandy@lightfoot.

org.uk, 01588 630683 or visit lightfoot.org.uk.