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Bury says 'no' to elected mayor

1:07am Friday 4th July 2008

RESIDENTS have voted against plans for a directly-elected mayor in Bury.

Kids' charity will cop for cash

9:00am Friday 4th July 2008

A CRACK team of police officers will kick off a seven-day long charity triathlon Twelve officers from Greater Manchester will cycle 1,000 miles from John O’Groats to Lands End.

Tina signed out with a tidy sum

Tina Brown presents the chain of office to new president Beryl Thomas

9:09am Friday 4th July 2008

OUTGOING president Tina Brown has handed over the chain of office to Beryl Thomas — new president of the Inner Wheel Club of Tottington and Bury West.

Sixty of the best for hospitals' charity

8:59am Friday 4th July 2008

BUSINESSES, community groups and schools in Bury are being invited to put on their thinking caps to raise 60p, £6 or £60 as part of the NHS 60th anniversary celebrations.

Budding impresarios shine!

Derby High School pupils celebrate the success of their performing arts company

8:49am Friday 4th July 2008

DERBY High School pupils took a break from the classroom to run their own performing arts company.

The Bolton & Bury Business Awards 2008

3:31pm Thursday 3rd July 2008

View the video of The Bolton & Bury Business Awards 2008

Manchester city centre trams delay

2:42pm Thursday 3rd July 2008

Trams services in Manchester city centre are currently suspended owing to essential engineering works.

6,000 joined salute to Israel

The Salute to Israel 60 Parade makes it way down Bury Old Road, Prestwich, en route to Heaton Park

9:00am Friday 4th July 2008

ABOUT 6,000 revellers descended on a very soggy Heaton Park on Sunday to join in the fun of Salute to Israel 60 day.

Changing face of Townside Fields

2:14pm Thursday 3rd July 2008

CRANES and bulldozers have moved in to start work on Bury’s latest town centre development at Pyramid Park. A health centre and hotel, together with a multi-storey car park, will be at the core of the new Townside Fields site. It is hoped the work, valued at around £80 million, will be completed late next year.

£17million plan to transform East Lancs Railway with diesel trains

11:58am Thursday 3rd July 2008

BURY has come up with its own congestion-busting idea — to run a modernised train service on the historic East Lancashire Railway.


National News

Labour MSP in by-election running

Margaret Curran has announced she will stand as a candidate for Glasgow East

Updated 7:21pm Saturday 5th July 2008

Labour MSP Margaret Curran has announced she will stand as a candidate for the Glasgow East by-election.


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