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  • Unique Remembrance event to be held at Ramsbottom Library

    People are being invited to join a special Remembrance event designed to pay tribute to our armed forces and help prevent isolation and loneliness in elderly residents. The event will include readings of First World War poems which will be read

  • Conspirators jailed for immigration scam

    A COUPLE have been jailed for an immigration scam hatched to use their unborn baby to dishonestly claim the right to live in the UK. Nigerian nationals Olutobi Ogunbawo and Maria Adesanya concocted a conspiracy to falsely register a British man

  • Bury's ex-MPs spend on Facebook politics

    FORMER Bury North Labour MP James Frith spent £1,517 on Facebook advertising in the last 12 months. Of that less than £100 was paid for in the last week. Bury South’s Independent ex-MP Ivan Lewis spent nothing on Facebook advertising. Mr Frith

  • Met Office issues warning as rain set to hammer the North

    The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning as rain is set to batter areas of the North West this week. The statement warns that prolonged rain on Thursday or Friday could cause flooding in some areas, with risks to buildings, communities

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

    A BURGLAR who targeted a Bury primary school has been jailed for 26 weeks. Manchester magistrates heard how Adam Ellis, aged 33, of Kestrel Drive, Bury, stole two projectors, worth £2,118 from St Paul’s C of E Primary School on July 20. He pleaded