FOREIGN Secretary David Miliband visited Bury on Thursday afternoon to show support for the borough's two Labour candidates. He met staff and pupils at a Prestwich school before enjoying a cup of tea with voters at a supporter's house near
FC United continue to limp towards the finish line as they suffered a 1-0 defeat at Burscough. The one-time play-off hopefuls have now dropped to 13th in the UniBond Premier League table after a six-game winless run. The Rebels’ cause on Saturday was
BURY have been plunged into danger of relegation from North Lancs League One by their latest defeat. The home side opened their account after 10 minutes with a slick passing move to score in the corner. Bury dominated the next 25 minutes to the surprise
The Bury Times has teamed up with Bury FC to give supporters the chance of winning two tickets to the home game against Torquay on Saturday, May 1. Alan Knill’s men are currently gunning for promotion and this promises to be another cracking game.
The family of a man who died after a road traffic collision in Prestwich, have paid tribute. Shaun David Woodward, aged 22, from Prestwich died in hospital on Wednesday April 7. Police were called to the junction of Heywood Road and Chatsworth
A BURY company has formed a partnership with one of the electronic security industry’s fastest growing brands to market a sophisticated surveillance and communications solution nationwide. Microcare Systems Ltd has teamed up with the professional security
IT is with some amusement that I have read the to and fro of comments for and against the prospective candidate Maryam Khan. As a non-party voter I must be the amongst the most sort after group of voters, with each candidate wooing my support. As
WE have entered the election period which will determine our fate for the next five years, and this election is long overdue and the opportunity for a change must not be missed. This present government led by the worst Prime Minister in my experience
Glad to give Mr Taylor (Letters, March 11) a glimpse of a Green way out of the banking crisis. The credit crunch was inevitable because the bubble of debt had to burst, but people forget that it was triggered by high oil prices. Investors feared we had
I am at my wits end with the waste disposal at Bury Council. My brown bin has not been emptied since before Christmas. We were informed that there were no collections early this year due to the ice and snow, but that they would commence again at a
SCORES of fundraisers walked side-by-side with cricketing legend Sir Ian Botham in Heaton Park to help beat childhood leukaemia. They joined Beefy — who scored 5,200 runs in 102 test matches for England between 1977 and 1992 — on the 25th anniversary
General Election candidates have been on the campaign trail to win votes. Three Bury North candidates went head-to-head before a 100-strong audience to win the constituency previously held by Labour MP David Chaytor. Conservative David Nuttall told
A MICHAEL Morrison double helped seal a 3-2 victory at Runcorn Linnets and boosted Ramsbottom United’s play-off hopes with a fourth win in 11 days. The Rams looked to have blown their chances of promotion from the Vodkat North West Counties
BOXING’S rising star Scott Quigg will finally fight in his hometown after Bury Council overturned the ban on professional boxing in the town. The decision means Quigg will headline a show at Castle Leisure Centre on Saturday May 29. The campaign to
WHEN Louise Tarver got a telephone call to tell her she was through to the final of a beauty competition —she was more than a little surprised. The 27-year-old, from Walmersley, was unaware boyfriend Terence Hastie had sent off her details
POLICE are cracking down on lorry drivers who are using a Bury residential estate as a “rat run”. Drivers of trucks weighing more than 7.5 tonnes who are illegally using Willow Street as a shortcut to the M66 were targeted during a special operation.
DEVELOPERS are hoping it will be third time lucky after making another bid to refurbish the site of a former Unsworth pub. Bosses from Bury-based firm Cobe Consulting have asked Bury Council if they can knock down the pub in Parr Lane, and replace
GERRY Luczka’s men suffered a disappointing reverse on Saturday, two days after an impressive 2-1 win over his old club Leigh Genesis. Goals from Eddie Stanford and Steve Howson’s last-gasp winner were enough to give Boro a win over Leigh at Chorley’
FORMER Borough striker Steve Foster came back to haunt his old club with a brace for the in-form Salford side. Salford started the brightest and might have opened the scoring after only two minutes when Gareth Thomas lashed a goal-bound shot towards
FROM terrace hero to radio star, it is all in a day’s work for Shakers striker Ryan Lowe. For when he is not banging in the goals for Bury, the 31-year-old striker can be found presenting a popular radio programme in his home city of Liverpool. The
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
