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  • Car showroom to move onto pub site

    AN EYESORE pub in Bury is to be demolished after planning permission was granted for it to be overtaken by a car showroom. The plan submitted by car delaership RRG Kia in Bolton Road will see the boarded-up Derby Arms pub and vacant Texaco petrol

  • Get a slice of baking action

    BAKERS across Bury can get a slice of the action with the launch of a covert cake society. The Clandestine Cake Club, formed in 2010 in Leeds, is an underground movement which now has more than 170 clubs worldwide. Rainy Williamson, aged 44

  • Story of success for Anna

    THERE was a happy ending for a 10-year-old Bury schoolgirl when she entered a national reading contest. Anna Baird, who attends St Joseph’s RC Primary on Queen Street in Ramsbottom, won a regional award for ‘Most Interesting Written Responses to