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  • ​​​Free water on tap in Greater Manchester

    Greater Manchester joins the Refill Revolution preventing millions of plastic bottles at source. Refill, the award-winning campaign to prevent plastic pollution by connecting people with free tap water, launches in Greater Manchester with the installation of two water fountains in Bury as part of a pilot scheme

  • Get Ready to Vote in May

    With only weeks to go Bury Council is pulling out all the stops to ensure the highest possible turnout for the local elections on Thursday 2 May.

  • Flood warnings in Bury now lifted

    Following yesterday's rain, all flood alerts affecting Bury have now been lifted by the Environment Agency. To keep up to date with local flood warnings, go to the Environment Agency at https://flood-warning-information.service.gov.uk/warnings?location=Bury

  • Closely monitoring water levels

    We're closely monitoring river levels across the borough given the amount of rain we've had and current Met Office warnings.

  • Councillor Trevor Holt to be next Mayor of Bury

    ​Bury East councillor Trevor Holt, who has spent nearly half of his life as a councillor, serving the residents of Bury, is to be the 2019/20 Mayor of Bury. He is the second longest serving member of the council and was born and educated in East ward, which he has represented for 36 years since being elected in 1983.

  • Improving Bury's roads

    Bury Council is to adopt a new GM wide Highway Safety Inspection Policy as part of a range of actions aimed at improving maintenance of Bury’s 660km roads network.

  • Ambitious proposals to clean up harmful air pollution

    Bury Council's Cabinet last night endorsed wide ranging proposals to tackle the urgent problem of air pollution. This proposal is a joint commitment from all of the ten Greater Manchester (GM) local authorities to make the City Region one of the healthiest, cleanest and greenest conurbations in Europe.

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