CONSERVATIVE leader David Cameron praised Bury’s famous son Sir Robert Peel during a speech in Whitefield tonight. He said the “great Conservative Prime Minister” encouraged people to get involved in their communities in a manifesto in 1834
BORO have signed 22-year-old Brazilian forward Diego Ferreira until the end of the season. Ferreira, released by Italian Serie A club Udinese, for whom he played second-team football, received clearance from the Brazilian FA on Tuesday and could make
RADCLIFFE warmed up for the new cricket season with successive matches against Kearsley and Church and Oswaldtwistle. But during a weekend on which the groundsman at the Racecourse performed miracles to get the games on, they suffered a double defeat
GERRY Luczka has warned his tired Radcliffe Borough players they could get battered at Halifax tonight if they do not pick up their game. Boro slumped to their second consecutive defeat in disappointing style at home to an in-form Salford City side who
NETBALL A crushing win for Northern Thunder over Team Northumbria in the Co-operative Netball Superleague has boosted their goal average ahead of the play-offs. From the first centre, Thunder rolled superb exhibition of netball. Emma Lower, who missed
RADCLIFFE CC retained the Macdonald Cup in a pulsating match against neighbours and eight-times winners Little Lever. The pivotal point in a close match in the cup competition for First Division teams was the doubles when Graham Jeffries and Mick Dore
THE Ammies maintained their incredible record of winning every league away game this season with a dramatic 93rd-minute winner from Tony Subachus. The goal triggered wild celebrations amongst Bury’s players, staff and supporters as, barring a miraculous
BURY were dealt a blow with a disappointing loss to rivals Rochdale. Bury conceded after missing a 20th-minute penalty before equalising when Will Purser set up Spencer Woods. Rochdale reclaimed the lead just after the restart when a set-piece was headed
ELTON needed a win from this game but made their task difficult conceding inside five minutes to a poorly defended cross from the right. Vale should have taken the lead with Ross Buckley providing incisive passes. Dave Berry’s first touch pushed the
WALSHAW’S slender Manchester League Premier Division title aspirations all but vanished in the sunshine at Springhead. On a poor playing surface it was a match that was never going to suit Walshaw’s passing game, but in the early stages they took the
BURY Cricket Club’s ambitious captain Simon Belston is targeting a clean sweep for his team this summer. The Radcliffe Road side, who finished second in the Manchester Association Premier Division last season, start their latest campaign when they host
POOL: Radcliffe's Karl Boyes won the WPA Etisalat World 8-Ball Championship lastweekend in Fujairah. He beat Holland’s Niels Feijen 13-12 in a nail-biting final. Boyes won seven racks as he raced to a convincing 11-4 lead. But when Boyes went in-off
Police have located a man they wanted to trace following the death of a woman in Bury. The man, aged 45, is currently with police officers in a hospital. Police were called to Dumers Lane, Radcliffe, at 4.40pm yesterday, following reports a woman's
THE British National Party is to field 10 candidates in the local elections where 18 seats are up for grabs. Conservative, Labour and the Liberal Democrat candidates will contest all the posts up for re-election. Nominations closed at noon last Thursday
FILM director Danny Boyle could be reunited with his Trainspotting collaborator Irvine Welsh, if rumours are to be believed. Welsh is currently working on the screenplay about two Scots who fooled the music industry by pretending to be American gangster
BURY Cycle Speedway Club’s annual sponsored bike ride took on a special poignancy. The event, held on Good Friday, honoured two special women at the centre of the club’s activities over its 35-year history. Eight-year-old Sinead O’Sullivan, granddaughter
A MUSIC teacher with fake qualifications conned a former Bury X Factor hopeful who had hired her as a vocal coach, a court heard. Jean Gillies was uncovered when teenager Daniel Fox, who reached the final 24 in last year’s ITV talent show, met her former
ENTRIES are still being sought for the third annual Joe Geeling Five Mile Fun Run. The popular event, to be staged on Sunday, June 6, has proven to be a great day out for families wishing to raise money for a good cause. Lavender Hotel Group, which
A ROW has broken out at Bury Town Hall over who will be the next mayor. The current mayor, Cllr Sheila Magnall, will step down in mid-May and her colleagues have to choose a replacement. Usually, councillors agree a nomination amicably
ONE of the most inventive and diverse bands from the Scottish folk scene, PBS6, will play The Met in Bury next Thursday. A recording and touring folk hip-hop collaboration with an international perspective is, perhaps on a paper at least, a risky prospect
An investigation has been launched after a woman's body was found at a house in Radcliffe. Police were called to a house on Dumers Lane at 4.40pm yesterday. The body of a woman, thought to be in her early 40s, was found. A post
