STEPHANIE Cullen has revealed that her Olympic dreams are over after the Bury-born rower decided not to try out for the British squad. The former Bury Grammar School pupil won gold at the World Rowing Championships in Slovenia last year as part of the
SUSPENDED striker Ben Wharton has urged his Radcliffe Borough team-mates to go out and win their Lancashire FA Trophy semi-final for him. The former Rochdale youth player has always dreamed of playing on the biggest stage, and with the final
GILES Coke believes there will be no respite for Bury when new Yeovil Town manager Gary Johnson brings his struggling League One side to Gigg Lane on Saturday. Midfielder Coke came on as a late substitute in the 3-0 defeat to Sheffield United
IF Scott Quigg’s master plan comes off he will be a world champion by the end of 2013. That’s the aim for the Bury boxer, who is preparing to go back into the ring next month to defend his British super bantamweight title. The 23-year-old fighter is
BURY winger David Worrall has revealed how Richie Barker’s special diet is helping return to full fitness. After making an impressive start to the season, Worrall has been a fringe player while battling glandular fever and injury, but he was one of the
THE Rams kept up the pressure at the top of the table with a fantastic away win at one of their main challengers for promotion in what is turning out to be a fascinating chase for the North West Counties Premier Division title. Runcorn Town, who have
THE upwardly-mobile Shakers came crashing down to earth with a bump against Danny Wilson’s promotion-chasing Sheffield United side. Richie Barker’s men have been punching above their weight and were justified in looking up the League One table, rather
HUNDREDS of mourners packed St Marie’s RC Church and lined the streets outside the Town Hall to pay their final respects to a man affectionately dubbed “Mr Bury”. The poignant outpouring of sympathy proved a fitting farewell to Bury’s deputy mayor Cllr
MORE than 30 leading writers and actors have joined a campaign opposing the deportation of playwright Lydia Besong and her husband, Bernard Batey. A letter has been sent to Home Secretary Theresa May calling for them to be granted asylum and be allowed
A DIRECTOR of Bury Football Club is leading by example — by championing a sponsored walk. The Shakers are holding their own in the middle of League One and club bosses want to raise £20,000 to pay for new changing rooms at Gigg Lane. Club director Mark
THESE photographs were taken at Bury Hospice in 1991, when its doors were first opened to terminally-ill patients. Now the charity wants people to contribute their own photographs and memories to a book celebrating its 21st anniversary. A history of
A BLIND charity worker has died at the age of 81. Gerald Locke’s life changed for ever when he lost his sight at the age of 33 due to glaucoma. But he coped well and went on to spend 25 years working for the Royal National Institute of Blind People
THE final brick has been put in place at the £10 million Millwood Special School being built in Radcliffe. Work on the state-of-the-art centre in Abden Street started in October 2010 and the finishing touches are now being made. Contractors ISG are
FATHER-of-two John Polson faces a life-saving kidney transplant after being born with a genetic condition. So his mother, Norine Polson, and sister, Belinda Stanley, have stepped in to offer one of their kidneys to save his life. Tests have shown they
A BURY man who worked his way up from the shop floor to become general manager at the town’s Barker & Dobson confectionery works has died. Mr John Reddy died in Fairfield Hospital last Friday after a long illness. The 74-year-old, of Walmersley Road
COUNCIL tax bills in Bury are likely to be frozen for the second year in succession. But a political war of words has broken out after Bury Council’s ruling Labour group was accused of performing a “significant u-turn”. Town Hall leaders are recommending
