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  • Islamic School founder dies aged 73

    Malawa Yusuf Motala, founder and headmaster at the local Islamic school for Holcombe, Darul Uloom died on Sunday September in Toronto, Canada. Mawlana was born in 1946 in Surat, India and qualified as an expert in Islamic Sciences and the Reformation

  • Pensioner jailed after road rage attack on teenage cyclist

    A PENSIONER who mowed down a teenage cyclist in a road rage attack has been jailed for six months. At Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court Judge John Edwards told 69-year-old Michael Hanley: "Your behaviour was boorish, highly aggressive, utterly

  • Summer's last hurrah? Bury set to bask in late season heat

    DESPITE a week of wet weather the people of Bury may have one last chance to fire up the barbecue this weekend. Experts expect highs to approach 19°C, with forecasters suggesting clear and sunny conditions, especially on Sunday. Met Office

  • Appeal to find family of man who died at Bury care home

    POLICE are appealing for the public's help to trace the family of a man believed to be from Bury. Keith Rodney Allen, aged 74, died at the Alexander Care Home in Rochdale Road on September 3. There are not believed to be any suspicious circumstances

  • Thug shoved girlfriend off moving motorbike

    A MAN shoved his girlfriend from a moving motorbike, knocking her unconscious. And when she told him their relationship was over Harry Owen smashed her head repeatedly on a car bonnet, leaving witnesses fearing she was dead. At Bolton Crown Court