• LONDON-based chamber choir, Vox Cordis, will perform a concert of sacred choral music at St John’s Church, Northington, on Saturday April 13 at 7pm.

Tickets: £10 – from janeandrobertbryant@hotmail.co.uk or on the door.

Proceeds to Friends of St John’s Northington.

  • VILLAGERS have the chance to take part in local democracy soon.

Bishop’s Sutton Parish Council Annual Assembly is on Tuesday April 9 at 7.30pm in the village hall.

Kilmeston Parish Council Annual Assembly and Annual Meeting will be on Tuesday May 21 at 7.30pm in the village hall.

  • PLANNING officers at the city council have been busy determining applications in Alresford.

Mr R Newman has been refused permission for a three-bedroom dwelling on land to the north of Derryveagh, Bridge Road.

Tania Haskell has been given the go-ahead for the conversion of a garage to additional bedroom, study and garden room at Primrose Cottage, New Farm Road.

Meanwhile the officers have approved Mr & Mrs Dudfield’s plan for a single-storey rear extension at Dormers on South Road.

  • LESTER Simpson and Nigel Corbett present Will Ye Go To Flanders, a short, early-evening concert in aid of Bloodwise at St Nicholas Church, Bishop’s Sutton, on Saturday April 6 from 6-7pm.

Doors open from 5pm and snowdrops will be for sale in aid of Bloodwise.

Will Ye Go To Flanders is the last concert in this winter’s Bloodwise series and is something completely different to the more classical flavour of the previous performances. One hundred years after the end of The Great War, the musicians present an alternative commemoration in songs and music accompanied on a variety of stringed instruments, accordion and bagpipes.

Lester first became involved with ‘Peace Concerts Passchendaele’ in 1994 and over the intervening years has written many songs and tunes inspired by frequent trips to the battle fields of Flanders. The show will use both Lester’s songs and others contemporary with WWI.

Tickets cost £10, available on the door or can be reserved via stnbconcerts@gmail.com.

  • THE Southern Counties Heavy Horse Association will be bringing their horses to Ivy Cottage field, Kilmeston (near the Village Hall) on Sunday March 31, 10am-3pm. There will be displays of harrowing, cart rides, etc. Free entry - everyone welcome. Teas and cakes will be served in the village hall - proceeds to Friends of St. Andrew’s, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Winchester Hospice.
  • CINEMA at Ropley presents King of Thieves this Saturday March 30 in the village hall. Doors open at 7pm and the screening of the 15-rated film is at 7.30pm.

Tickets are £6 from the Courtyard Village Shop, 01962 733666 or by calling 01962 773690.

  • THE next show for the Cheriton Players is a Very International Variety Show.

It will be staged in the village hall from Wednesday April 3 to Saturday April 6 at 7.15pm.

There will be a variety of songs and sketches with an international flavour.

There will be table seating and a licensed bar. Tickets are £15 to include supper, from www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheritonplayers.