Fioa Dawes will give a talk on  Ideas for making garments with shortened rows when Woodley Machine Knitting Club meets at Woodley Leisure Centre in Haddon Drive tomorrow, from 7.30pm to 9.30pm. Admission is £3. Call (0118) 921 6969.

Blood donor sessions will be held at The Oakwood Centre in Headley Road on Monday, from 9.15am to 11.55am and 1.30pm to 4.15pm. Appointments can be booked by calling 0845 7 711 711.

Woodley Conservatives will be holding a political surgery at Woodley Library in Headley Road on Saturday, March 29, from 11am to 12.30pm.

Planning applications:

- F/2008/0475. 5 Crockhamwell Road. Single-storey rear extension.

- F/2008/0468. 52 Church Road. Single-storey front extension to enlarge garage and conversion of rear of garage to habitable room.

- O/2008/0356. 4 to 6 Woodwaye. Outline application for development of two, one bedroom flats and two, two bedroom flats with associated parking (layout, scale, external appearance and means of access to be considered).

Call Woodley reporter Lewis Rudd on (0118) 936 6187 with your community news.