BUDDHIST monks from Tibet will bring an Oriental touch to this year's Corsham Festival.

The monks from the Tashi Lhunpo monastery, now in exile in India, will perform welcome and dancing, purification and consecration ceremonies, and thanksgiving.

Festival co-ordinator Kathryn Riley said: "It promises to be a very colourful event."

The week-long festival has been boosted by a £1,000 grant from Wiltshire County Council.

The festival runs from June 22-29. The programme will be launched on April 13.

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