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25 YEARS AGO: Taken from the Guide files of February 8, 1985 (From Prestwich and Whitefield Guide)
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25 YEARS AGO: Taken from the Guide files of February 8, 1985
8:16pm Wednesday 3rd February 2010
* THE education committee agreed to temporarily stall plans to amalgamate Parrenthorn High School in Prestwich and Philips High School in Whitefield.
* RESIDENTS fled their homes in their nightclothes after a fire started in a block of flats in Clegg Street, Whitefield.
* THE organisers of an animal rights group called Fur Trade have said it was peaceful and did not send letter bombs to clothing firms in Whitefield.
* Thieves broke into the Church Inn, Bury New Road, Whitefield, and took £1,00 worth of cash and jewellery.
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