SINGING FOR FUN - With Marion Rowlatt, takes place in the church hall tomorrow (Friday), starting at 10.30am.

COFFEE MORNING - There will be a coffee morning in the church hall on Saturday at 10.30am with various items for sale including plants, pots and other things for the garden.

CHURCH SERVICES FOR SUNDAY - Knighton Baptist Church, 11am, to include communion led by Rev Maggie Rich. Methodist church, 11am, led by Rev D Pickard. Catholic Church celebration of holy mass, 11am. St Edward’s Church, 10.30am, family service led by Rev Melia Cope. St David’s Church, Whitton, 9.30am, holy communion led by Rev Peter Cope.

St Andrew’s Church, Norton, morning worship and baptism led by Rev Petra Beresford-Webb.

PROGRESSIVE LUNCH - The Royal Welsh Show 2014 fundraising Radnor feature will be a progressive lunch on Sunday from noon. There will be two routes, the first starting at Andrew and Sharon Beavan’s Black Hall Farm, Llanfair Waterdine, where a starter will be served, the main course will be in Felindre village hall and dessert at Llanbadarn Fynydd show field.

The second route will start at Sion and Vicky Deakin’s home at Llancoch, Llangunllo, main course at the Lion Hotel, Llanbister and dessert at the show field Llanbadarn Fynydd.

Tickets are available on 01547 529741/528909/550100 or 01597 840244/840223. Adults £15, £8 children up to 14 years and children under five free.

ART FOR AMNESTY - This year’s artist is bird photographer Marie Clayfield. The exhibition opens at Knighton Library on Tuesday and runs until July 6.

Marie Clayfield completed A levels in art and photography at Ludlow College before going to do an art foundation course at Shrewsbury College of Arts and Technology. She then went on to study a degree in fine art in Birmingham and then a masters in wildlife documentary production at the University of Salford, where she achieved a distinction. On completion of her masters she moved to Bristol to work at the BBC Natural History Unit on nature programmes including Springwatch, Autumnwatch and Deadly 60. She currently works on Gardeners World and in her spare time continues to photograph and film the wildlife of South Shropshire.

Accompanying the photographs will be small felt birds made by Ann Belgrave who lives near Presteigne.

On July 2 there will be a short poetry reading on the subject of birds from 5.30pm-6.30pm in the library foyer. For more information contact Jean Salt on 01547 530497.

CARWASH - A charity carwash by members of Phoenix, Knighton BMX/skate park group raised £150 towards the ongoing cost of the park. The event took place in Crabtree Walk with kind permission of Martin Neary.

Members of the group were kept busy for the whole morning as a constant stream of dirty cars turned up to be washed. Group Member Lynsey Price thanked Martin for the use of his premises and everyone else for their support.

TREF-Y-CLAWDD WI - It was a great evening at this month’s meeting. Julia and John Roberts gave a talk on the Severn Valley railways, in particular the Great Weston line. Their involvement started many years ago when their family moved to Kidderminster and Julia’s mother worked in a shop at Kidderminster station. The family soon became volunteers helping when needed. They dressed up in 1940’s clothes for a 40s weekend, helped with ‘Thomas specials’ and the ‘Santa’ trains. Their love and enthusiasm for the line and steam trains was very clear. Over the years much has been done to the line with the help of people like John and Julia.

The line has been extended to Bridgenorth and many engines have been restored. The line can be seen in many films including The Railway Children. At the business part of the meeting Julia Roberts was congratulated by president Shirley Moorhouse for coming first at the county show with her felt painting. The next meeting is on July 3, at 7.30pm in the Baptist church schoolroom.

BAPTIST CHURCH GIFT DAY - On June 20 it will be the annual gift day at Norton Street Baptist church. At 7pm there will be a ‘Desert Island’ evening with coffee and cakes in the church schoolroom.

ST DAVID’S LADIES GUILD - The next meeting of the Heyhope Ladies Guild will be on Monday at 7.30pm in Knucklas Community Centre. The speaker for the evening will be Ian Burgin on the subject of Imperial China.

GRAND CONCERT - There will be a grand concert at New Radnor community centre on Saturday featuring the Rhayader and District Male Voice Choir with Emma Bradford (mezzo soprano) and Ffrindiau, Llandrindod Wells Chamber Choir. All proceeds will go to the Dragon Fire after-school club. Tickets are £7.50 on the door, or by telephone on 01544 350790 or 01544 262185.

CORONATION TEA - More than £500 was raised for St Edward’s church when about 90 people attended the Coronation tea in the church hall, Knighton. For the event the hall had been decorated with flags, bunting and memorabilia to mark the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth 60 years ago. Those who attended enjoyed a traditional tea prepared by members and their friends and music by John Thornton. The raffle winners were: Cath Reeves, Diana Rudge, Brenda Steadman, Ruth Davies, Brenda Aspley, Liz Reynolds and Emma Bywater.

The church was also decorated.