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.
A fun, free and friendly way to get fit and appreciate the scenery is returning on Monday 4 March.
Bury Council has increased its share of the council tax bill by 3.5% for the coming financial year, it was agreed by councillors last night (Wednesday 20 Feb).
More funding is available to help local sports coaches and volunteers obtain recognised qualifications.
The home delivery library service is available to people who find it difficult to visit a library, whether due to age, infirmity, ill heath or a caring commitment.
It was a red letter day for hundreds of cyclists when a new mountain bike trail opened in Whitefield.
A new service to provide employment support, advice and training has just opened for business.
Bury Council’s new strategy for improving road safety in residential streets and estates will be launched at the next round of township forum meetings.
Residents and visitors to Bury can now recycle more while out and about in the borough’s town centres and at the main parks.
Communities are coming together through the Fusilier Museum’s brand new project. The five week project is using museum images and uniforms to inspire the Asian Women’s group from the Jinnah Centre to create their own uniform.
The organisers of the award-winning Rambottom Chocolate Festival are gearing up to bring the best of UK cocoa to Ramsbottom for the biggest and best event so far.
Traders, residents and community groups are joining together to regenerate the town centres of Prestwich and Radcliffe.
The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has taken the precautionary decision to close three medical wards at Fairfield General Hospital in Bury to visitors following an outbreak of the Norovirus winter vomiting bug.
