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Town is violent, say police

6:10am Friday 19th March 2010

BURY has been labelled a “violent town” by police in a damning multi-agency report into residents’ love affair with alcohol.

Improved Ofsted report for schools

TOP MARKS: Neil Scruton, headmaster of Elton High School celebrates the Ofsted report with pupils

6:10am Friday 19th March 2010

MORE than half of all Bury schools visited by the Government’s education watchdog were found to be either good or outstanding.

Doctor with incurable cancer to launch park Race for Life

9:30am Friday 19th March 2010

A DOCTOR, who has incurable skin cancer, will launch Manchester’s Race for Life this year in Heaton Park.

Images unveiled of new sixth form college

NEW LOOK: An artist’s impression of the proposed state-of-the-art sixth form college

8:30am Friday 19th March 2010

IMAGES of a proposed state-of-the-art sixth form college at St Monica’s High School have been unveiled.

Residents join forces to fight housing plan on their doorstep

8:00am Friday 19th March 2010

A COMMUNITY has joined forces to fight plans to build houses at the end of their street.

Supporters meet their heroes

MY HEROES: Jordan Clarke with City midfielder Steven Ireland

7:30am Friday 19th March 2010

Manchester City fans met two of their heroes when they popped in to a supporters’ meeting in Prestwich last week.

Venue first to install ‘Changing Place’ facility

6:50am Friday 19th March 2010

THE Met has strengthened its position as an accessible venue in Bury.

Police ‘last chance’ was the making of Youth MP

WILD CHILD: Jamie Walker with Cllr Diane Ashworth

6:50am Friday 19th March 2010

A TEENAGER who started smoking at the age of seven and committed petty crime has told how politics and volunteering saved him.

Skate park wins green light at last

6:40am Friday 19th March 2010

THRILL-SEEKING youngsters will soon be flocking to Prestwich to test out a new skate park.

Project work in town under the spotlight

6:10am Friday 19th March 2010

SUCCESSFUL projects where agencies have worked together will be discussed at next week’s meeting of Radcliffe local area partnership.

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A local teenager will represent young people across the borough after winning the Youth Parliament elections.

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Your Say Your Prestwich

Could it be that our civic halls are targeted, because as well as exercise, some activities can be described as entertainment. This would be to ignore the social side on which communities aspire and expand. Without civic halls, communities would in the main, have to rely on small church halls and clubs or join expensive health centres. The enlarged social and warm atmosphere would evaporate, probably gone forever. − Alf Wentworth, Prestwich

What will the town have left to offer? »

Nobel prize-winning economist, Joseph Stilgitz, put it like this: “Crisis policies were working but now the bankers are back in charge.”  − George Heron Bury Green Party

Banks want wages cut but to carry on paying bonuses »



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