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Fire and rescue crews’ hi-tech station

6:00am Thursday 11th March 2010

BURY fire station is to move across town — next to the new police station, The Bury Times can reveal.

Woman may have died in sex game

6:10am Thursday 11th March 2010

A TEACHING assistant could have accidentally hanged herself when a sex game went tragically wrong, an inquest heard.

New battle over kidnapped girl

EGYPT REUNION: Leila Sabra with her daughter A’ishah

6:30am Thursday 11th March 2010

A MUM who was reunited with her kidnapped daughter is now locked in a second legal battle so that they can come back to Britain together.

Yobs making lives a misery near Metrolink

6:10am Thursday 11th March 2010

YOBS are making the lives of residents a misery by targeting streets close to Metrolink stations.

Memorial fundraiser for tragic Samantha

COLLAPSED AT HOME: Samantha Ahearn

6:10am Thursday 11th March 2010

THE parents of a teenager who died when she suffered an epileptic fit and fell down the stairs have set up a fundraising appeal in her memory.

Parents re-open St Hilda's playgroup

8:20am Thursday 11th March 2010

A PLAYGROUP in Tottington has re-opened just four weeks after being closed by education watchdog Osted.

Rotary Club’s young gun

NEW RECRUIT: Rotarian Michael Oglesby

7:20am Thursday 11th March 2010

A TEENAGER has become the youngest ever member of Radcliffe Rotary Club.

Roadworks on Sundays

7:20am Thursday 11th March 2010

MOTORISTS are being asked to follow diversions in a busy part of Prestwich from Sunday.

Muslims on a walk of faith

ON THE MARCH: Muslims take to the streets of Bury during Sunday’s event

7:10am Thursday 11th March 2010

AROUND 500 Muslims staged a weekend religious procession through the streets of Bury.

Town hall listens to sound of protest

PETITION: From left, Mayor Cllr Sheila Magnall; Ivan Lewis MP; petition organisers Alfred Wentworth, Kevin Hodges and Alan Turner; Cllr Vic D’Albert and Cllr Peter Redstone

6:20am Thursday 11th March 2010

CAMPAIGNERS have handed in a 7,000-strong petition to councillors at Bury Town Hall urging them to save the Longfield Suite in Prestwich.

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HANDICRAFT: Sister Loretto (left) and sister Daniella performing hand exercises at Nazareth House, Prestwich

CARE workers in Prestwich gave a helping hand to elderly residents to mark Dignity Action Day.

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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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