What can I do in and around Newbury this weekend?

Friday

Newbury Premier Roadshow, Royal British Legion, Pelican Lane, Newbury, 8.30pm-11pm. All welcome.

Arts for Hungerford presents The Sting Operation, at 7.30pm, The Croft Hall. Tickets £22.

Saturday

Big Thatcham Fest-Off

Saturday, October 12

Artisan markets, gift stalls, street food and live music from 4.30pm to 9pm

Free entry

Thatcham Festival Art Exhibition, at the Old Bluecoat School, from 10am-4pm. Display/sale by local artists. Free entry. Also on Sunday.

Thatcham Memorial Classic Car Show, from 10am-4pm, at Thatcham Memorial Field. A celebration of all things motoring, Charity fundraiser for Thatcham Memorial Foundation. Donations are welcome. Free entry.

Sunday

InCantata’s ‘A Concert of Musical Delights’, at St Mary’s church, Thatcham, as part of the Thatcham Festival, during the Sunday morning service.

Monday

Association of Newbury & District National Trust talk entitled 'The Summer Days Trilogy' – a story of an ordinary family and of memoirs of a time as a wartime evacuee in Kintbury. At West Berks Indoor Bowls Club, Pyle Hill, Newbury, from 7,30pm-9.30pm. Parking on site. Non-members welcome, entry £3.

Tuesday

Newbury Neighbourhood Watch/West Berkshire Neighbourhood Watch Meeting, from 7.15pm, the Waterside Centre, Newbury - entrance down the side of Camp Hopson. No parking available at the centre. Talks by Mark Godsland, Cyber Prepare & Protect Advisor; Phil Knight of Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service; and Inspector Matt Gow.

Wednesday

Talk by Gill Campbell from Historic England entitled 'The Boxford Timber: Its Conservation and What It Tells Us about Mesolithic Life'

St Andrew's Church, Boxford. Wednesday, October 16, 7.30pm

Gill Campbell has been overseeing the conservation work of a piece of carved bog oak dating to the Mesolithic period, the earliest piece of worked timber found in the UK

Entry free, but donations accepted