ROMAN talk and slide show: Tickets, costing £3 each, are selling fast.

Order yours from Tony on 0118 9700282.

The date is February 25, and the time is 7.30pm to 8pm.

AUCTION: On February 19, starting at 10am.

Please bring in goods for sale on Friday, February 18, from 6.30pm.

Sellers, please note that only eight items per list will be accepted.

ASH WEDNESDAY: There will be a short, early Holy Communion on Ash Wednesday, at 7.45am, in the Mission Church.

Do come along before you go to work to start off Eastertide.

PAVILION gate: Please note the new opening time of 8.30am to allow access for parent parking for the school.

A volunteer "opener" is needed for weekends and holiday time.

FOOTPATHS: Gary Kent, our footpath warden, is trying to bring up to date the definitive map of all the Silchester footpaths.

The rights of way officer thinks that over the whole area of Basingstoke and Deane there will be some 1,800 changes!

Do you recall any footpaths, which are no longer used or may have been illegally extinguished?

Any comments to the parish clerk please.