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Award for 30 loyal years as scout leader
A GRANDFATHER from Unsworth has been presented with an award for his loyalty to the scouting movement. Peter North has been a scout leader based at All Saints Primary School in Whitefield for more than 30 years and was given the ‘silver acorn
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How much? Bar tab from 1982 uncovered
PUB bosses at the Grey Mare in Ramsbottom were stunned to discover an old relic — a 30-year-old bar tab. Licensees Jayne and Graham Mardy discovered the tab, believed to be the longest-running tab in the UK, under the stairs after taking over
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‘Ban canvassers from schools’
AN UPSET parent has launched an online petition calling for political parties to be banned from campaigning near schools. Sue Smith was driven to act after seeing an election candidate and supporters outside St Peter’s Primary, in Whitefield