THE latest Good Evening Okehampton event was a swashbuckling affair — with pirates swabbing the decks in the town centre. The late night shopping event, running on the last Friday of each month until Hallowe'en, has been set up to encourage people to explore Okehampton's shops after normal working hours. The best dressed pirates could enter a fancy dress competition to try and win a raft of prizes. The Goodenough family won an annual family swimming pass and ten free swims thanks to their homemade costumes. Nine-year-old Bradley Bosher won two cinema tickets donated by Merlin Cinema, ten-year-old Catherine Gilber won a pair of stripy pirate socks, Lola Walker-Brow, aged five, won a squawking parrot hand puppet donated by Boomerang, and Ruby Maddocks won a skull necklace donated by Rockin' Beads. As the only adult who entered, Becky Goodenough won a bottle of wine donated by Godfrey, Short and Squire. Donna Tombs, the chair of Okehampton and District Chamber of Trade, said: 'The rain rather put a proper sea air over the evening, but everyone who came out enjoyed themselves. 'These evenings take a lot of organising by members of the chamber of trade and the aim is to encourage people, who cannot normally get into Okehampton during the day, to shop at our lovely little independent shops which are normally closed by the time working people get home.' The next Good Evening Okehampton event will be a musical spectacular, with Ophelia Devon and Exeter Samba Band providing the main entertainment on Friday, September 26. For more details visit facebook.com/GoodEveningOkehampton or phone 01837 657614.