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Longfield Suite is a world class dance facility

7:30am Thursday 21st January 2010

The Longfield Suite was opened in 1971 and has become synonymous with dancers social and competitive, plus other styles of dance including French jive, belly dancing, line dancing and salsa dancing.

Councillor under orders

7:30am Thursday 21st January 2010

I was extremely disappointed with Richard Baum’s letter of January 7.

Sign the petition

7:30am Thursday 21st January 2010

It is a disgrace that Gordon Brown has not yet acted on his promise to abolish prescription charges for people with long-term conditions.

Questions I have put to Bury Council

7:30am Thursday 21st January 2010

THE following is a letter I have written to Bury Council.

We are paying the price of poor service

7:30am Thursday 21st January 2010

The obvious poor management of Bury’s Winter Management policy by the Conservative controlled Bury Council is a serious concern for a lot of people across the borough.

Guide to our rescue

7:30am Thursday 21st January 2010

WE would like to express our deepest thanks for helping to resolve our gas supply difficulty with National Grid. Over this cold spell, and due to a fractured gas supply pipe, our gas supply was disconnected on Tuesday, January 5 — which left us with no heating or cooking facilities.

Parlous state of the roads

6:30am Thursday 21st January 2010

WhilE many have seen the Tory Council’s ineffective reaction to managing the roads in bad weather, few have thought about how much worse the roads have been getting underneath all that snow and ice.

‘Performing well’ — but how well in comparison with old district councils?

3:22pm Thursday 7th January 2010

SIX Town Housing play Santa Claus by giving two weeks’ free rent on its housing, so we read in the papers, which we all know is not true.

Blame the chiefs, not the indians, for problems with bin lorries and gritters

3:23pm Thursday 7th January 2010

As I write, it is the afternoon of Wednesday, December 30, and the collection of bins in our area of Tottington is two and a half weeks late (and counting).

All the Conservative councillors opposed climate change vote

3:23pm Thursday 7th January 2010

The article on the events of November’s council meeting (New Year edition) concentrates on the Chief Executive’s letter about councillors’ behaviour that followed it, rather than on the debate which caused the problems in the first place.

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