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Family pay tribute to motorcyclist who died after horror crash
A MOTORCYCLIST has died following a horror crash. The rider, who was on a Kawasaki motorbike, was involved in a collision with a Mercedes Vito van in Radcliffe Road, Bury, near to its junction with Manchester Road at 3.50pm on Wednesday, December
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CYCLE SPEEDWAY: Elston edged out in race showdown
BURY Comets youngsters James Elston and Adam Watson raced off in a tie-breaker for the third-place trophy in the British Indoor Under-13s individual championship at Fit-City, Eccles. While Wolverhampton’s Brandon Whetton came from nowhere to win
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BASKETBALL: Egerton (Knutsford) 50 Bury Blue Devils 59
SECOND-placed Blue Devils took a while to get into their stride when they travelled to their Manchester Area Basketball League Division One rivals. Egerton equickly capialised to take a 19-8 lead, but Bury recovered to trail 19-15 after the first
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Tigers show grit to launch survival bid
SEDGLEY Tigers hope their first win in nine games will provide the platform for a survival surge. The Whitefield men’s gripping 19-17 home victory over Coventry still leaves them 11 points adrift of the safety mark, but has changed the mood around
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Dirty dozen brave mud for Radcliffe
THERE was a fine turnout of 12 Radcliffe AC runners for a hilly and muddy ourse in the Red Rose Cross-Country Series at Leverhulme Park, Bolton on Saturday. Mark Williams led the club home in 77th place out of 168 runners and, among the women,
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Brooks strike ends poor Boro run: Radcliffe Borough 1 Prescot Cables 0
RADCLIFFE Borough claimed a first win in seven matches thanks to Tom Brooks’ 55th-minute strike. In one of the few Evo-Stik Division One North games to go ahead, Boro ended their run of four straight defeats to leapfrog Prescot into 17th spot in
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Boro out to make most of win fillip
RADCLIFFE Borough caretaker boss Kevin Glendon wants his side to build on a morale-boosting home win against Prescot Cables in what is a hectic Christmas week of three games in eight days. Boro won 1-0 at the weekend to end a run of six matches
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Hats off to Hattie and the Bury wonder kids
IT was a great day of individual and team success for Bury Athletic Club as their athletes concluded the Red Rose Cross-Country League season at Leverhulme Park, Bolton. Bury’s Under-11s girls have been in dominant form all year and recorded a convincing
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Hope for Bury in transfer embargo talks
BURY are in discussions with the Football League over the possibility of extending the deals they have for their loan players once the transfer window reopens. There were fears when the transfer embargo was placed on Bury last week that manager
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Kay cleans up to take Elton Lib B through
TOTTINGTON A had little chance after the first frame of their Jim Brooks pairs match against Elton Lib B when James Kay made a fantastic 84 clearance and a lead of 83. Lee Armstrong and Phil Hughes won the second frame 61-26 for Tottington but
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Feisty festive derby looms for Shakers
MANAGERS Kevin Blackwell and Graham Westley have opened up a war of words ahead of their Boxing Day showdown at Deepdale. Westley, the Preston boss, refused to shake hands with opposite number Blackwell after his side beat Bury at Gigg Lane in
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Bury 3 Cheetham Hill 3
BURY suffered frustration against their North West Hockey League Division Five rivals who pegged the Castlebrook High School hosts back three times after they took the lead. James Oakes’s powerful ninth-minute finish put Bury ahead before Hill
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Fitton gets call from England colleges
TEENAGER Jordyn Fitton has been selected for the England Under-17s Colleges squad. Radcliffe lad Fitton left Tottington High School in the summer before starting a national diploma course in football studies at Myerscough College near Preston.
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Children’s ward shut to ease a crisis
FAIRFIELD Hospital has temporarily closed a children’s unit and transferred nursing staff to neighbouring hospitals to help them cope with an “unprecedented” influx of young patients. On Friday, bosses at Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust decided
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Police in warning over counterfeit gift vouchers
POLICE are warning retailers and customers to be on their guard against bogus gift vouchers. Four incidents were reported to police at stores in Bury and the Trafford Centre last week. Shoppers tried to pay for goods with Capital Bond vouchers
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£120k salary council executive takes voluntary severance
THE deputy chief executive of Bury Council, Ruth Fairhurst, is to step down from her post at the end of this month. Council bosses have decided not to replace her, saving around £120,000. Mrs Fairhurst has spent six years with the council,
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Drink-drive police officer quits force
A POLICE officer who was convicted of drink-driving after a fatal crash in Ramsbottom has resigned from the force. Brendan Buggie, aged 39, of Rochdale Road, Edenfield, was given a four-month jail term, suspended for 18 months, last Friday for
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Very special award for brave officer Melanie
Melanie Bowling has been singled out for “special” praise. For the Bury officer has lifted Greater Manchester Police’s coveted Special Constable of the Year award. Melanie has now made the step up to become a full-time regular in the police
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Man in hospital after vicious gang attack on doorstep
A man was attacked by a gang wearing “Scream” masks on the doorstep of his home in Bury. The robbers tried to strangle the 50-year-old victim with a cable after dragging him to the ground. He was getting out of his car outside his house in
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Festive fixture set to hit fifty
IT started as a bet over a pint back in 1963, and now cricketers of Tottington St Johns and Brooksbottom in Bury are about to do battle come rain, snow, ice, fog or howling gales, on Boxing Day for the 50th time. With two clubs desperate for funds
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VERDICT: Bury 3 Preston 3 (Preston win 5-4 on penalties)
BURY’S run of miserable luck continued on Tuesday night as Preston dumped them out of the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy on penalties and stretched the their winless streak to six matches. But the way the Shakers battled back after going behind three
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New cricket pavilion starts to take shape
WORK on Bury Cricket Club’s new £100,000 pavilion is now underway. Officials at the Radcliffe Road club are optimistic the development will be completed by the start of the next season – April 20 – when Bury host Astley and Tyldesley in their opening