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NHS defends man’s nine-year stay in hospital

6:00am Sunday 21st March 2010

A FAIRFIELD Hospital patient waited a staggering nine years to be discharged into a nursing home — then died just days later.

Joe Geeling memorial run date announced

6:10am Sunday 21st March 2010

THE countdown has begun for the third annual Joe Geeling Five Mile Run in memory of the murdered Bury schoolboy.

City region plan would ‘give control’

6:00am Saturday 20th March 2010

BURY would be able to control its own destiny as a borough if the creation of a new combined authority in Greater Manchester goes ahead.

Runners mark Rotary success

8:00am Saturday 20th March 2010

VOLUNTEERS working to fight the polio disease have celebrated 25 years with a relay marathon in Ramsbottom.

Reprise for popular Godspell

ON STAGE: Hannah Davis, left, and Lucy Woods with members of the cast of Godspell

7:40am Saturday 20th March 2010

TALENTED actors from a theatre group are gearing up to take a trip down memory lane.

Artist giving away work for charity

6:20am Saturday 20th March 2010

ARTIST Chris Yates is giving away his paintings to raise money for charity.

Market to share its success

6:00am Saturday 20th March 2010

A HIGH-powered delegation crossed over the Pennines to establish the reasons for the success of Bury’s world-famous market.

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.

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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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