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  • Get rocking as Rammy School of Rock returns

    SCHOOL may be out for summer but budding young musicians are being invited to head back to class for a complete rock-education at a holiday School of Rock. Banishing the doldrums of the long summer break the two-week Ramsbottom summer school will

  • Sports clubs ransacked by thieves in break-ins

    TWO sports clubs have been ransacked by thieves in break-ins. Greenmount Cricket Club and Elton Vale Sports Club were both broken into at the end of last month. A group of yobs smashed their way into Greenmount Cricket Club in the early hours

  • Shops and apartments plan for derelict site

    SHOPS and apartments could be built on wasteland on the edge of Bury town centre. Plans for six shops and ten apartments in Rochdale Road, close to the junction with York Street, were submitted to Bury Council last month. Developer Decorum (NW

  • Art Society exhibition returns to museum

    AN ANNUAL celebration of the borough's artistic talent is back at Bury Art Museum. The Bury Art Society exhibition was opened on August 3 by the Mayor of Bury, Councillor Trevor Holt, at a ceremony attended by Art Society members and the public.

  • Shakers fans urge owner to 'put up or sell up'

    BURY FC’s supporters’ trust has called on the club’s owner to “put up or sell up”. In a strongly-worded statement shared on social media on Tuesday, Forever Bury urged Steve Dale to take action to prevent the club “being consigned to history under

  • Before the Bench: A glue thief and other cases sentenced

    A SHOPLIFTER who stole glue and tape worth more than £300 from the Wilko store in Bury has been sentenced to a conditional discharge for 12 months by Manchester magistrates. Michael Godwin, aged 50, pleaded guilty to committing the thefts on March