Christmas Fair, Belthorn County Primary School, 11am-1pm. Father Christmas will travel through the village on his pony and trap at 11am. Stalls, raffle, chocolate tombola and refreshments.

Carols with Lancashire Students' Concert Band, Arts Theatre, Westholme School, Blackburn, 7.30pm.

Readers Group meet Accrington Library 2pm. All welcome.

"Cinderella," Oswaldtwistle Civic Theatre, 2.30pm and 7pm.

Dolls Houses and Miniatures, Oswaldtwistle Mills, 10am-5pm.

Trouble at' Mill, Penworthham Sports and Social Club, 8.30pm.

"A Christmas Carol," Little Theatre, River Street, Colne, 7.30pm.

"Batty About Birds," Pepper Hill Barn Study, Pepper Hill Barn, Wycoller.

Fantasia Day, Rawtenstall Market.

Weavers Cottage Christmas Fair, Bacup Road, Rawtenstall.

Tombola, Griffin Inn, King Street, Blackburn. Proceeds for "Only Foals and Horses," animal sanctuary.

Christmas Fair, Belmont Community Centre, Burnley, 2pm.

Christmas Fair, St James School, Regent Street, Haslingden, 2.30pm.

Rossendale Lions Club Christmas Sleigh, Deardengate, Haslingden, 9.45am.

Christmas Fair, Accrington Town Hall, 10am.

Dancerama, King George's Hall, Blackburn.

Festive Fun for five to 11 year-olds, Clitheroe Library, 10am-11.30am.

Hyndburn Ramblers meet Plantation Street, 9.30am/10.15am Grindleton (nine miles).

Jack Straw MP Advice Surgery, Bangor Street Community Centre, Blackburn, 9am-10am.

"Run For Your Wife," Arts Club Theatre, Gibraltar Street, Blackburn, 7.30pm.

Make a Millennium Hat Party, Harris Museum, Market Square, Preston.

Handel's Messiah. Blackburn Cathedral, 7.30pm.

Victorian Christmas Celebrations, Weaver's Triangle Visitor Centre, 85 Manchester Road, Burnley, 2pm-4pm.

Soul and Motown Revival, Burnley Mechanics, 8pm.

Winter Ramble, Spring Vale Rambling Class, meet Moss Fold Road, Darwen, 11am.

Dance Night Out, King George's Hall, Blackburn.

Accrington and Blackburn CHA meet Billinge End/ Preston New Road, Blackburn, 1.30pm.

Christmas Dance with MC's Frank and Doris Raw, Accrington Town Hall, 8pm.

Only Foals and Horses Animal Sanctuary and Shop, Redshell Stables, Redshell Lane, off Haslingden Old Road, Oswaldtwistle, 1-4pm.

Accrington Market Hall, 9am-5pm; Open market, 9am-4.30pm.

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