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1 week ago | 
burytimes.co.uk | Lisa Valentine
4 1/1 A much-loved Easter tradition will be back in town tomorrow as residents and visitors eagerly flock to Holcombe Hill for a day of festive fun. Each year, hundreds of people of all ages make the climb up to Peel Tower, also known as the Peel Monument, on Good Friday to roll painted hard-boiled eggs down the hill throughout the day.
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1 week ago | 
burytimes.co.uk | Lisa Valentine
Police have issued a picture of a man they would like to speak to after two girls were robbed at knifepoint. (Image: GMP) Police are continuing an appeal for information after a man robbed two teenage girls at knifepoint.
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1 week ago | 
burytimes.co.uk | Lisa Valentine
3 1/1 A former soap star says she will soon be moving out of the million-pound home bought by her footballer ex. Helen Flanagan, 34, from Bury, lives in an eight-bedroom home in Bolton with the three children she shares with ex-fiancé and Bristol Rovers footballer, Scott Sinclair. The former Westholme School pupil is best known for her role as Rosie Webster in the ITV soap, Coronation Street.
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1 week ago | 
burytimes.co.uk | Lisa Valentine
Police attended the two-vehicle crash on Manchester Road last night, Tuesday. (Image: Google Maps) A two-vehicle crash took place last night, Tuesday, on a busy main road in Bury, in which one person suffered minor injuries. The collision happened on A56 Manchester Road just before 8pm and the road was temporarily closed from Dumers Lane to Mount Zion Road. It is unclear if any arrests have been made at this time, and police enquiries are ongoing.
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1 week ago | 
burytimes.co.uk | Lisa Valentine
3 1/1 A popular bar and bottle shop has finally found its new long-term home following "a few none starters". The team behind Prestwich’s craft beer bar and bottle shop Keg, Cask and Bottle (KCB) will be moving to Bury New Road. They will be carrying out upgrades with plans including a covered outdoor courtyard seating area and an extended range of draught beers and drinks.
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1 week ago | 
burytimes.co.uk | Lisa Valentine
6 1/1 A marathon runner is cancer-free and has avoided surgery thanks to a clinical trial which gave him a higher dose of radiotherapy along with chemotherapy. Paul Swift, 40, from Prestwich, who is married to his wife Jess and has a five-year-old daughter, Elsie, was just four weeks off running his first marathon, which he had been training hard for. But then he was diagnosed with early-stage rectal cancer, a type of bowel cancer, in August 2023.
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1 week ago | 
burytimes.co.uk | Lisa Valentine
Prestwich Gold and Diamond Centre in Bury New Road (Image: Google Maps) A family jewellers will be leaving the stop they have been in for more than nine years due to "increasingly high rent costs". Rental prices for the Prestwich Gold and Diamond Centre premises on Bury New Road have risen from £100 a week to almost £300, leaving the owners with no choice but to move out of the area.
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1 week ago | 
burytimes.co.uk | Lisa Valentine
7 1/1 Heritage railway carriages in Bury have been "seriously damaged" by "mindless" acts of vandalism over the weekend. More than 21 windows were smashed across East Lancashire Railway (ELR) heritage coaching stock and a privately owned diesel railcar set currently undergoing renovation. There was evidence of attempted arson along with shattered windows and fixtures being ripped apart.
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1 week ago | 
theboltonnews.co.uk | Lisa Valentine
3 1/1 A primary school has been praised for its “authentic and passionate leadership” by education inspectors The Catholic Schools Inspectorate (CSI), the national body that inspects Catholic schools, awarded St Mary’s RC Primary School in Radcliffe an overall rating of "good". Inspectors visited from February 26 to 27 and commended staff for being “impeccable role models” to pupils.
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1 week ago | 
lancashiretelegraph.co.uk | Lisa Valentine
3 1/1 The search for a missing 80-year-old man who was last seen more than three weeks ago has come to an end after police have "exhausted all search enquiries". Brian Fletcher travelled from his home in Bury on Saturday, March 22 to Tockholes and has not been seen since. Emergency services have carried out searches using underwater search teams, specialist dogs, police drone and helicopters and mountain rescue volunteers.
