KETTLES will be boiling across Pershore and the Vale on Friday (September 26) as people take part in the World's Biggest Coffee Morning.

The event takes place each year across the world and sees people enjoying some cake and a cuppa in support of Macmillan Cancer Support.

The team at Basepoint Evesham and licensee Exceptional Thinking, in Crab Apple Way, Vale Park, will be taking part this year.

They are inviting people along to join them for coffee and cake at 10am.

Events are also taking place at Sedgeberrow First School from 9am, Wick Grange Care Farm in Pershore from 10am, St Nicholas Church Hall, in Ashchurch from 11am and Dumbleton Cricket Club in Dairy Lane, Dumbleton from 10am.

In Broadway Edinburgh Woollen Mill will be offering a hot drink and a slice of cake or pastry and a raffle between 10am and midday and Cotswold Trading will also support the good cause with their own offerings from 10am.

Also on Friday there will be a morning in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support at Three Little Pigs in Pershore High Street from 10am.

It is the sixth year in a row that the venue has hosted a charity morning for Macmillan.

Residents at Heathlands Residential Care Home in Pershore’s Station Road are inviting people from the local community to enjoy a swashbuckling time at their pirate party starting at 11am.

Everyone will be dressed to impress with eye patches and pirate hats galore, plus there will be a treasure hunt for two to four-year-olds from Stepping Stones Day Nursery, which is next door to the home.

Mayor of Pershore, Tony Rowley will be arriving at 11am to join in the fun, with pirate-themed cakes, coffees with ‘Squires special rum punch’, flags, decorations which the residents have made and a treasure chest full of chocolate ‘gold’ coins.

Deputy manager Netty Matthews, who will be dressed as a parrot, said: “Our residents love to dress up and have fun with themed days, so they are really excited to be welcoming the people of Pershore aboard for a swashbuckling time to raise money for an amazing charity.”

There will also be some coffee mornings taking place on Saturday at Little Comberton Village Hall, Pershore Road, Little Comberton from 10.30am and at St Andrews Parish Centre in Pershore between 10am and 12.30pm.

The latter event is being organised by local resident Jean Andrews and is accompanied by a display of her 30 antique dolls.

Kelly Whitehouse, fundraising manager at Macmillan Cancer Support in Worcestershire, said: “We are very grateful to everyone across Worcestershire who supports Macmillan. We want to make sure no one has to face cancer alone but we can't do it without the amazing people who fundraise for us."