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  • Goalkeeping coach Brian Jensen leaves Bury to join Shrewsbury

    Goalkeeping coach Brian Jensen has left Bury to move to fellow League One club Shrewsbury Town. The Copenhagen-born shot-stopper, also a former Shakers player, joined the club last summer and was part of Ryan Lowe’s promotion-winning backroom staff

  • Boyle backs Twilight star for Bond success

    OSCAR winning director Danny Boyle has backed Robert Pattinson as the next James Bond. The Radcliffe-born filmmaker had been in the directing chair for the upcoming Bond film but quit last year, blaming "creative differences". Daniel Craig will

  • Two killed in listeria hospital outbreak named

    TWO women whose deaths have been linked to the listeria outbreak at UK hospitals have been named. Enid Heap, 84, died at Manchester Royal Infirmary on May 6 with her family at her bedside, Manchester Coroner's Court heard on Friday. The "linked

  • Sacked Danny Baker is back with a new podcast

    DANNY Baker will return with a new podcast after being sacked by the BBC over an allegedly racist tweet about the royal baby. The broadcaster said the twice-weekly podcast, which mirrors his former BBC Radio 5 Live show, will start in 2020. Baker

  • Bury FC owner makes CVA proposal to club's creditors

    Bury FC owner Steve Dale has sent a proposed company voluntary arrangement to the club’s creditors. The Gigg Lane club is in the midst of a financial crisis and saw a winding-up petition led by HMRC adjourned at the High Court on Wednesday.

  • Brexit comedy without the politics at The Met

    A BREXIT play without the politics is the intriguing premise for a new production at The Met in Bury by local playwright Lewis Charlesworth. "It's a comedy drama about ordinary, northern, working class people set in 2015 when everyone was talking

  • Five things to do in Bury this weekend

    ARE you looking for something to do this weekend? Here are five activities we recommend you try... Colour and sound of carnival returns to the streets Head down to Prestwich Carnival and take in the colour and sound that is expected to fill