Fight back against scammers in Bury
Websites, letters, phone calls or doorstep sellers – do their offers sound too good to be true?
Topics: Crime
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Detective dogs sniff out illegal tobacco on National No Smoking Day
Specially trained detection dogs have sniffed out £1,000 worth of illegal tobacco – in raids carried out on National No Smoking Day.
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Benefit fraudster ordered to pay more than £50,000
An electrician from Prestwich has been ordered to pay £51,203 after being convicted of housing benefit fraud carried out over eight years.
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Chocolates, flowers – without the bruises
Valentine’s Day brings anything but love and presents for too many people, say leaders of Bury Council.
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Benefit fraudster’s claims led to civil partnership discovery
A Radcliffe woman was caught falsely claiming Housing and Council Tax Benefit after giving false details to Bury Council about her employment.
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Mum of four convicted of benefit fraud
A mother of four pleaded guilty to two counts of benefit fraud for failing to tell Bury Council that her partner was living with her.
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Fake fags sniffed out in trading standards raid
Police and trading standards seized tobacco and counterfeit goods in raids on premises across the borough.
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Grants for community groups
Proceeds from lost or stolen property could turn out to be a windfall for local groups who can help their community.
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Ball games ban for ASBO man
An 18-year-old man has been given a two-year ASBO after causing distress to local residents for three years.
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Burglars target Asian homes for jewellery
Police in Bury are warning Asian residents to keep their jewellery safe following a number of burglaries, where expensive jewellery and cash have been stolen.
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Illicit tobacco seized from local shops
Specially trained dogs helped police and council officers to sniff out illicit tobacco in local off-licences.
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Ordered to pay £65,000 in backdated business rates
A man has been ordered to pay Bury Council more than £65,000 in business rates he owed on his restaurant.
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Court sentences unlicensed tattooist
An unlicensed tattooist has been given an 18-month conditional discharge after pleading guilty to two offences.
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Suspected loan sharks arrested following operation in Rochdale and Bury
Two men aged 40 and 42 have been arrested on suspicion of illegal money lending, following an operation in Rochdale and Bury this morning
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Bury’s Hate Crime agenda relaunched
Police, community representatives and council officials will get together on Thursday 21 March to put together plans to tackle hate crime.
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Dog owner prosecuted after his pet fouls land
64-year-old dog owner John Quarrell has been taken to court after not picking up the mess his dog left behind.
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Baroness backs Bury’s booze battle
Baroness Newlove came to Bury to see how the £90,000 cash injection from the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) to the Bury East Township Forum is being spent.
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Benefits claimant fined by magistrates
A former Bury resident has been convicted after accepting housing benefit for a property she no longer lived in.
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Couple caught via Facebook in £30,000 tenancy fraud
Fraud investigators from Bury Council used a social networking site to catch a pair of benefit cheats.
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Scream' mask gang violently rob man returning home
A man was momentarily strangled by a cable during a violent robbery in Bury. At about 8.40pm on Friday 30 November 2012, a gang of five men wearing "Scream" masks pounced on the 50-year-old man as he returned home on Greenway Close.
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