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Try to limit fireworks to organised displays

2:31pm Wednesday 17th December 2008

With the New Year increasingly welcomed through fireworks celebrations, guide dog and other assistance dog owners are becoming increasingly worried about the safety of their dogs, many of whom find the loud bangs associated with fireworks too much to bear.

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Time to end the money for drugs culture

2:31pm Wednesday 17th December 2008

COULD Britain end up suffering riots similar to those suffered in Greece?

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Probably not the last we will hear of the c-charge

2:33pm Wednesday 17th December 2008

Having enjoyed the past few weeks ‘campaigning’ against the congestion charge across Greater Manchester, I am sorry not to be in town for the result.

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Why should council leaders have the final say?

2:34pm Wednesday 17th December 2008

HAVING read this week’s Bury Times I was interested to see the article regarding the TIF referendum and to note that the result of public opinion would be announced to the electorate on Friday, December 12.

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Great care must be taken with our money

2:35pm Wednesday 17th December 2008

I am writing with regard to the horrendous costs that have been accumulated by the failed attempts to introduce a congestion charge in Manchester.

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Problems in doing any improvements

2:36pm Wednesday 17th December 2008

Obviously the ‘no’ result is the right result. We all get charged enough.

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Traffic planning: time to start again from scratch

2:36pm Wednesday 17th December 2008

If ever the public showed the politicians that they had got it wrong, the result of the TIF referendum illustrates it.

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Eventually they will get their own way

2:37pm Wednesday 17th December 2008

As expected, the people of Bury, and all over Greater Manchester, have voted overwhelmingly against the congestion charge.

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Derby move 'an exciting opportunity'

2:26pm Wednesday 17th December 2008

THE response to the letter ‘Radcliffe needs its own High School’, Radcliffe Times, December 11.

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Children will miss out on activities

2:27pm Wednesday 17th December 2008

WHEN I first joined Castle Leisure Centre it opened bank holidays, Christman Eve and New Year’s Eve.

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“The Government has been trying to push us into adopting an unfair charge and surely now cannot leave Greater Manchester to the cold winds of the recession. I call upon the Government to meet its obligation to the city region and ensure that the £1.5 billion grant from the Department of Transport is allocated to the Manchester authorities to spend on improving the public transport infrastructure in Greater Manchester at this critical time.”  − Bury Council leader Bob Bibby

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