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Fire and rescue crews’ hi-tech station

Updated 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

Updated 6:10am Thursday 11th March 2010

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

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New battle over kidnapped girl

EGYPT REUNION: Leila Sabra with her daughter A’ishah

Updated 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.

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Yobs making lives a misery near Metrolink

Updated 6:10am Thursday 11th March 2010

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

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FIRST AID: Taxi driver Paul Mason, who sprang into action

A QUICK-thinking taxi driver has been hailed a hero for saving the life of a seven-year-old girl in Prestwich.

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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

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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

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