A number of people from Bury have recently been before the court.

Magistrates have dealt with a number of offences including assault, motoring matters and racially aggravated harassment.

Michala Taylor attacked a man in April last year.

The 51-year-old woman admitted assault by beating at Manchester Magistrates Court.

Taylor, from Springwood Street, Ramsbottom, Bury, was placed on a community order to run until November next year.

She was ordered to do 40 rehabilitation activity days and fined £80.

A restraining order prohibiting her from contacting the man she attacked was imposed which will last for a year.

Andrew Winter racially harassed a woman in Whitefield in June 2023.

He displayed writing which was threatening, abusive or insulting.

Winter, from Oak Lane, Whitefield, Bury, admitted the offence at Manchester Magistrates Court.

Following this he was placed on a community order to last for a year.

He was ordered to take part in an alcohol treatment programme to last for nine months, to participate in 20 rehabilitation activity requirement days and fined £40.

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Michael Cullen took a Ford Focus without the owners consent in February this year in Bury.

On the same date he drove it with no insurance and was in possession of crack cocaine and heroin.

The 35-year-old admitted the four offences at Manchester Magistrates Court.

Following this he was placed on a community order to last for a year.

He was ordered to do 15 rehabilitation activity requirement days and fined £120 and given six penalty points on his licence.

Wayne Catterall drove a Mercedes Benz on Pilkington Way, Radcliffe, with a derivative of cocaine in his system in September last year.

The 40-year-old admitted the offence at Manchester Magistrates Court.

Following this Catterall, from Melrose Gardens, Radcliffe, he was banned from the roads for three years and fined £120.