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Fair game on show again

2:28pm Wednesday 6th January 2010

MORE than 200 visitors flocked to the 166th Holcombe Old English Gamefowl Club’s annual gamecock show.

Fruity drinks future for pupils

FRUITY SNACKS: From left, Jade McDonald, aged ten, Lois Bliss, also aged 10, and William Moppett, aged 11

8:10am Monday 4th January 2010

SCHOOLCHILDREN at Emmanuel Holcombe CE Primary School are leading the healthy eating revolution.

Everest rescue student plans to repeat climb

7:10am Sunday 3rd January 2010

A STUDENT who was stranded on Mount Everest for five days after being injured has vowed to attempt the charity climb again.

Police worker’s Peel Tower sketch to go under hammer

KEEN ARTIST: Police Community Support Officer Natalie Johnson with her drawing of Peel Tower

8:40am Saturday 19th December 2009

A POLICE officer is hoping her artistic view of Bury’s most famous landmark will help raise money for stoke victims.

Festive flavour continues in Ramsbottom

10:30am Friday 18th December 2009

FESTIVE celebrations in Ramsbottom will be continuing this weekend.

Takeaway owner fined for sales out-of-hours

8:10am Thursday 17th December 2009

A TAKEAWAY owner has been fined by Bury magistrates for selling food late at night when the shop should have been closed.

Firefighter Mark loses tumour fight

‘VERY BRAVE’: Mark Povey, who died this month

10:03am Wednesday 16th December 2009

A BRAVE firefighter who was diagnosed with a brain tumour just months after starting his dream job has died.

Ugandan link for pupils

10:00am Friday 4th December 2009

PUPILS at Tottington High are helping to provide fresh water for children in one of the world’s poorest communities.

Opening night at the Theatre Royal

CURTAIN UP: The Summerseat Players’ cast of The Circle, at the redeveloped Theatre Royal

10:00am Thursday 3rd December 2009

IT’S curtain up for drama company, the Summerseat Players, when their £400,000 theatre redevelopment is unveiled.

Demolition plan would make way for car park

8:00am Tuesday 24th November 2009

PART of a light industrial unit in Milltown Street, Radcliffe, could be demolished to make way for a car park.

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I WOULD like to express my concern at the parking at the Uplands medical centre in Whitefield. I recently took my ill one-year-old son to the surgery and found the parking at the Uplands and the roads around it terribly dangerous, due to the limited parking.  − Name and address supplied

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Once again, snow caused chaos on the roads of Greater Manchester on the evening of February 3 and, not for the first time this winter, First Bus failed its paying public. − Noel Bayley, Whitefield Labour Party candidate for Prestwich, St Mary’s ward

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