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Free music festival among the events today




A music festival, a community picnic and a vital football match are among many events in West Berkshire this weekend.
The free music festival will be on offer in the town centre, with the Market Place set to be buzzing with several local acts lined up to take to the al fresco stage.
Among the performers will be Kate Izzard, Ian and Mel Sound, Talking Codes and Woolton Hill singer Emma Lawrence, aged 16, who’s single One Way Road made it in to the UK Top 40 chart in January.
Members of the Abingdon, Didcot, Newbury, Thatcham and Wallingford choirs will also be amalgamating to form the Rock Choir.
The event has been organised by Newbury Town Council and Newbury Youth Council and while there will be no entrance fee the group is hoping to raise funds for West Berkshire Mencap through donation buckets present on the day.
The event will run from noon till 5pm.
There will also be a Community Orchard picnic at the Thatcham Nature Discovery Centre from midday to 3pm.
Visitors are invited to help celebrate the first blossoming of the fruit trees and fruiting hedge at the Thatcham Community Orchard and people can bring along their own blanket and picnic.
For further details, visit www.bbowt.org.uk
For those wanting to support a good cause , ‘Tour De Purley’ - a charity cyclo-sportive event in aid of having fun and raising funds for a new Purley Primary School – will be taking place.
It will starting and finish at Bucknells Meadow in Purley on Thames and you can catch the action from 9am until 3pm.
In sport, Hungerford Town have a crucial game against Bideford Town at Bulpit Lane.
If Hungerford can win and either Stourbridge or St Albans City lose, they will finish in the top five and make the play-offs.



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