ANOTHER fun-filled Festival Week rolls into action in Atherton from Saturday.

Nine days of jollity will include an antiques roadshow, line dancing and a cemetery walk!

The event opens on the Saturday with a charity market at the Jubilee Hall, Crabtree Lane, between 10am and 1pm and a western line dance there from 7.30pm.

Hesketh Fletcher High School have organised a craft fair between10am and 4pm on Sunday.

Atherton Town Trail is booked in for Monday at 6.30pm. Visitors should meet at Atherton Library, York Street, at 6.30pm, for a historic stroll with local historian Tony Ashcroft. Tickets are £1.

The first of two Atherton Schools concerts takes place at the Formby Hall at 7pm.

On Tuesday, May 12, there will be two tours around the Dorma factory at 2pm and 7pm. Meet at the main gate on Flapper Fold Lane. Tickets £1. The second schools concert is at the Formby Hall at 7pm and a talk on the history of Atherton collieries will be given at Atherton Library by mining museum curator Alan Davies, tickets £1.50.

Wednesday, May 13, brings at coffee morning at Atherton Parish Church from 9am to 11.30am, a Ladies' Luncheon at the Formby Hall at 11.30am, the Coffee Pot entertains at Bolton Road between 2pm and 8pm and an antiques roadshow at the Jubilee Hall at 7.30pm (£2), where small objects will be viewed by Radio Lancashire expert Allan Blackburn.

Tony Ashcroft will lead an Atherton Cemetery walk on Thursday at 10am, tickets £1, and an evening with Impact at the Formby Hall, curtain up 7.30pm, will bring two plays Jim Cartwright's "Two" and Brian Lees' "Flesh".

A talk and demonstration in the art of 3D pictures by Pat Littler starts at 2pm in Atherton Library on the Friday, tickets £1.50, and a festival dance at the Formby Hall at 7.30-pm stars John Bowdler, the Blackpool Tower organist. Tickets are £4.50.

Saturday brings Joe the Jester to Atherton Library at 10.30am, tickets £1, and the event draws to a close on Sunday with Songs of Praise at Atherton Parish Church at 3pm and a Brass Band Concert in Formby Hall at 7,30pm performed by the Todmorden Band, tickets £3.50.

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