BINGO - The Christmas bingo raising funds for the under-fives will be at Knighton Community Centre tomorrow (Friday). Doors open 6.30pm for a 7pm start. Prizes are donated by local businesses and individuals.

BAZAAR - Knighton Methodist Church Christmas bazaar is on Saturday from 10.30am to 12.30pm. Father Christmas will visit at 11am to give children a gift. There will be produce, books, gifts and other stalls plus a tombola and refreshments. New this year will be a competition for the bestdressed Father Christmas, for children aged 11 and under; first prize £5, second £3.

QUILT TRAIL - On Saturday the Knighton quilt trail and fair will take place in Knighton shops and church hall, from 10am till 4pm.

There will be an exhibition of quilts, bags and other crafts made locally, presented by shops in the town. All the items will end up in the church hall where there will be lots of stalls selling hand crafted Christmas presents.

Refreshments will be available.

BINGO - There will be a session of bingo at the church hall on Saturday; doors open 6.30 for 7pm. David Minton will be the caller.

RAFFLE - The AGM of Knighton and District Twinning Association is at the Plough Hotel next Thursday, December 6, at 7.30pm.

During the event the prize raffle will take place.

SUNDAY SERVICES - St Edward’s Church, Knighton, 9.30am morning worship led by Rev Petra Beresford-Webb. Knighton Methodist Church, 11am led by Mr S Dalton.

Knighton Baptist Church, 11am café style allage service. Knighton Catholic Church, 11am holy mass. St David’s, Whitton, 9.30am holy communion led by Rev Melia Cope. St Andrew’s, Norton, Holy Communion led by Rev Melia Cope.

VINTAGE CARS - Libby and John Roe, helped by their family and friends, raised £650 for the Wales Air Ambulance when they hosted the vintage sports car Snatcher Hill trial section at their home at the Old Station Caravan park, New Radnor. The money was raised by donations for car parking, toilet facilities and by the sale of refreshments including cakes served in their new tea rooms. The event at New Radnor is part of the Vintage Sports Car Club Welsh Weekend that takes place annually in October and is in its seventy third year. Sports cars from as old as a 1903 Mercedes 60hp to a 1936 MG Midget attempted the Snatcher section and the Old Station Caravan Park played host to the drivers and passengers from cars from motoring history including Bugatti, Aston Martin, Lea Francis, Frazer Nash, Riley, several Austin Sevens, Morris, Ford and MG.

MEETING A PRINCE - Recently the Campaign for Wool, a wool showcase, was hosted the Prince of Wales at Shear Brilliance in Auckland in New Zealand. Mandy Smith, aged 48 and originally from Knighton, was one of those to meet and talk to the prince about her display of woollen garments.

Mandy’s parents Peter and Ann Smith and sister Lesley still live in Knighton but Mandy has lived in New Zealand for 16 years and has taken a year out from her job as head of design at Auckland University to do a PhD.

The one-piece woollen garments on display when she met Prince Charles were part of her work. Mandy first became interested in hand crafts when at John Beddoes School in Presteigne where she did art O and A-levels.

After John Beddoes she did fashion design at Cheltenham and then knitwear design in Nottingham before moving abroad. The Prince of Wales is the patron of the five-year Campaign for Wool being jointly run by the wool industries of New Zealand, the UK and Australia to remind consumers around the world of the virtues of wool.

AWARD - Black Hall Leisure, a small holiday park on the English/Welsh border at Llanfairwaterdine, has won the Hoseasons Diamond Heart of England Award for its exceptional quality and outstanding customer service The park is run by Andrew and Sharon Beavan and their family.