LYMM Village's annual arts festival has a new director in Honor Giles, who hopes to bring together a wide variety of artists for this year's event.

Honor, of Sandy Lane, Oughtrington, originally comes from Bowdon but has lived in the Lymm area for the last five years.

Honor said: "I am really looking forward to discovering the variety of talents with which many of the people of Lymm seem to be blessed.

"Our aim is to put together a week of entertainment and interest for all the people of Lymm and the surrounding area, and hope that everyone will find something to enjoy."

The Festival Committee has already begun to plan the programme, which will take place between June 9 and 15, and provisionally includes ideas for music, drama, art, dance, sports, gardening, food, storytelling, walks, talks and a film making competition.

Some of Lymm's most picturesque locations will be used to stage events including the dam, the canal and the village centre itself.

Although trained as a teacher the mum-of-two began a career in the arts which has included the management of an association of contemporary crafts people, publicity and marketing at the Manchester City Art Galleries.

She has also been co-ordinating the provision of training opportunities for art gallery and museum professionals at the University of Manchester and handled the publicity for several theatre events including the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

She is also developing a career as a professional storyteller.

The committee is hoping that the festival programme will provide a wide variety of events to appeal to many different tastes and that the event will equal the prestige of the May queen, the rush bearing, and the Dickensian Christmas.

If anyone would like to discuss possible items for the festival programme, or offer themselves as volunteers to help run events they should call Honor on on 01925 758856.