BACUP's Victorian Christmas fair will be on December 4 starting with a car boot sale at Sutton's Riverside factory.

The sale starts at 10.30am at the factory on Newchurch Road, with the Britannia Coconutters, an Irish Band and children's rides.

The Reach Puppets from St Mary's Church, Rawtenstall, will perform at the Royal Court Theatre, in Bacup, and there will also be a coffee day at the theatre.

The Central Methodist Church will also hold a craft fair and Stacksteads band will perform carols around the town. Shawforth Majorettes will dance in the town centre.

A tea dance has been organised at the A, B and D Centre, Burnley Road, and there will be a reindeer trail around the shops for youngsters and pony and trap rides.

An antiques valuation session is at the Pioneer gym.

Shopkeepers and market stall holders will be dressing in Victorian costume and the fair will finish with a blessing of the crib by the Rev Alistair Stewart and a torchlight procession from St James' Square.