LEIGH'S Apple Dance Players are busy rehearsing their fifth pantomime.

Following their successful September play, Mike Harding's "Fur Coat and No Knickers", the company is hard at work on the traditional family panto "Beauty and the Beast".

The show will be produced and directed with original script and music by Guy Tudgay, at The Ex-Servicemen's Club, Windermere Road, Leigh, on January 9, 10, 11 and 16.

Clair Knight plays The Beauty Bella Donna and Jim Taylor the Beast.

Tickets cost £5.50, £4 for children, on sale now at the Apple Dance Centre and First Impressions, Twist Lane. For group bookings contact Guy on 07831 436429.