POLICE officers are hoping to reunite over 150 power tools with their owners following a series of raids in and around Rochdale. Over the last six weeks, the Rochdale Neighbourhood Task Force gathered intelligence, and executed a number of search
A POLICE inspector thought the Manchester Arena blast scene was safe to operate in as he persistently asked for paramedics and ambulance staff to attend, an inquiry has heard. Inspector Mike Smith, of Greater Manchester Police (GMP), was one of
A CAGE fighter who arranged to meet with a 13-year-old girl for sex told her to wear her school uniform for their encounter. Burnley Crown Court heard how Danial Heuer sent the girl lewd messages and pictures of himself performing a sex act before
A RAMSBOTTOM family will celebrate their pub reopening after lockdown by making an amazing pledge to the NHS. Father-and-son landlords Bill and Will Gallie, who own Holcombe Tap on Bolton Road West, have promised to donate 10p for every drink they
BURY Library has reopened its doors for browsing this week joining the libraries in Radcliffe, Ramsbottom and Prestwich. Literature fans can choose their books in person between the hours of 1pm and 4pm, Tuesdays to Fridays. In order to maintain
Emergency services were called to a crash on a major road through Ramsbottom this morning. Police were called around 6.05 this morning to an accident involving two cars on the junction of Bolton Road West and Lumb Carr Road. The fire service
Woodbank got the better of near neighbours Walshaw in the first round of the GMCL’s Derek Kay Cup. The visitors were seven wicket-winners in a rain-affected game that came on the back of Saturday’s league programme being washed out. Walshaw posted
A FOOTBALL club is celebrating after receiving a double cash boost. Bury FC Boys, Girls & Women has been awarded £6,000 from two successful grant applications. The majority of that, £5,000, has come from GreaterSport to help the club start two
Bury AFC have confirmed their first home pre-season friendly. Andy Welsh’s side will welcome North West Counties Premier League side Hanley Town to the Neuven Stadium on Tuesday, July 20. AFC have announced the news after a date for the game
BURY Times Camera Club member Naomi Sharples got an added bonus when she took this great landscape photograph. For she managed to capture a real freak of nature in the process. Can you spot the woman's face hidden in the clouds?
THE songs of a Bury-born musician who became a familiar face on TV in the Seventies and Eighties are being celebrated in a new remastered compilation. Peter Skellern: The Complete Island and Mercury Recordings features six albums from the mid 1970s
A PROJECT designed to showcase natural flood management techniques is taking place at Holcombe Moor. The works, which will help slow the flow of flood water to areas such as Irwell Vale, Strongstry, Chatterton, Ramsbottom and the high risk Radcliffe
PLANS have been submitted for a multi-million pound expansion at Bury College as bosses look to “inspire the next generation of professionals”. The £8.6m new centre will upgrade the college’s health, social care and computing and IT facilities with
Each week police appeal to readers of the Bury Times for help to find wanted suspects PAUL WHITE, aged 39, from Manchester and frequents the Prestwich, Salford and North Manchester areas. He is wanted for failing to appear at Crown Court on March
