THE Bury News has launched a new online platform for public notices placed by local councils.

The paper's owner, Newsquest Media Group, announced the launch of the new online public notices platform across all its 160 websites.

By using the new service, people will be able to discover what is planned for their area — from roadworks and planning applications to legal notices and licensing applications.

Henry Faure Walker, Chief Executive, Newsquest Media Group, said: “In order to make sure the public is kept properly informed it’s essential that local councils and Government bodies continue to use their local newspaper to advertise their notices in print and online.

“Our local news websites now regularly reach over 70 per cent to 80 per cent of the population of their local towns and cities.

"There is no media platform with this scale of local audience penetration and no better place for local authorities to communicate with their local residents. Local councils squirrelling important notices away in a dark corner of their own websites is not a viable alternative.”

The new public notices platform has been in live beta since November last year and is now live across all of Newsquest’s local sites.

Visit burytimes.co.uk/announcements/public_notices/