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£2m award gives green light for Fusiliers' Museum

9:33am Friday 23rd March 2007

BURY'S Fusiliers have hit the jackpot that will turn a dream into a reality.

Anniversary of a military disaster

<li> A single poppy wreath was laid at the Fusilier Memorial by Lieutenant Colonel Eric Davidson, chairman of the Regimental Association Lancashire

4:41pm Thursday 1st February 2007

THE 107th anniversary of Spion Kop was marked with a wreath-laying ceremony at the Fusiliers statue in Bury's Whitehead Gardens.

Museum plan in cash crisis

3:27pm Thursday 12th October 2006

BURY'S Fusilier Museum project faces a financial crisis after it lost out on a vital £350,000 grant.

Sneak thief steals war medals

10:34am Thursday 3rd August 2006

A FIRST World War hero's military medals have been stolen from a museum by a sneak thief.

Fusiliers' tribute to fallen soldiers

9:54am Thursday 6th July 2006

BURY'S Fusiliers saluted the thousands of soldiers who lost their lives in one of history's bloodiest battles.

Horrors of the Somme re-visited

From the Bury Times on July 6

9:52am Thursday 6th July 2006

BOYS from a Bury school were among thousands involved in commemorations of the 90th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme last weekend.

Royal backing for Fusiliers' Museum project

10:21am Thursday 1st June 2006

BURY'S Fusilier Museum Appeal has been given the royal seal of approval.

Town salutes the Lancashire Fusiliers

From the Bury Times on April 27, 2006

12:18pm Friday 28th April 2006

The 91st anniversary of the Lancashire Landings at Gallipoli was commemorated on Sunday as the young and not so young, the great and the good, turned out to mark the borough's regiments' greatest achievements.


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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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