Bury Council has announced that it will be extending the opening hours of its council tax and benefits contact centre to help meet the needs of local people struggling to find time during their busy working day to ask questions about their new council tax bills.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to operate the Borough-wide Artisan Markets in Bury.
Police in Bury have arrested eight people following drugs warrants across the town this morning.
Residents living in the north of the borough are invited to an open meeting to get involved with discussions about tackling key issues within their neighbourhoods. The next meeting of the Ramsbottom, Tottington & North Manor Township Forum will take place on Thursday 7 March at Ramsbottom Civic Hall and starts at 7pm.
At around 10pm on Wednesday 23 January 2013, the 50-year-old victim was inside her health and beauty shop on Bury New Road, Whitefield when a man forced his way through the back door.
Readers of the Pretty Nostalgic Magazine, which hails itself as an ‘independent vintage lifestyle magazine celebrating everything that’s brilliantly British’, have named Bury Market as the UK’s number one in the Food & Farmers Market category.
If you have an interest in the local business community and live in the Whitefield area then here’s your chance to get involved. The Whitefield Business Group will be meeting on Thursday 28 Feb, 5.30pm at Slattery.
Bury Council has been awarded a £40k cash windfall by The Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC ) to establish an arts archive within Bury Art Gallery and Archives section.
The cold weather did not deter the festival fever at The Fusilier Museum. Families dropped into the free February craft at the Moss Street museum to make Mardi Gras masks full of feathers and brightly coloured. Children also had the chance to have their face painted by Ilka Groeschel of Ilka Workshops
Residents, schools and businesses are invited to join in during national Climate Week (4-10 March) and play a part in combating climate change.
Free training for unemployed people seeking work is available at local libraries, working in partnership with Six Town Housing and Bury Adult Learning Service.
A packed agenda awaits residents when Whitefield and Unsworth Township Forum meets on Tuesday 12 March at the Elms Centre starting at 6.30pm.