SAVED: Four years old Emma Heywood was rescued from the canal behind the Farmers' Arms , Bank Top on the Bury-Radcliffe boundary.

Emma was given artificial respiration by Mrs Sheila Owen, then aged 29, of Openshaw Fold, Bury, who was picnicking nearby with two friends, Harry Lines (22) and Peter Jolly (28) when she heard the little girl's cries for help.

Emma of Warth Fold Road, Radcliffe, was taken to Bury General Hospital but was allowed home after treatment.

SEAT: After arriving late for the Gallipoli service at Bury Parish Church, Rochdale's heavyweight Liberal MP Cyril Smith drove off in a huff because he could not have his official seat inside the church.

THORPE: Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe was greeted by a large and enthusiastic crowd when he arrived at Bury's main shopping precinct during his whistle-stop tour of Lancashire.

Heavy traffic had delayed Mr Thorpe's scheduled arrival by 20 minutes and he had time only for a brief chat with shoppers and an equally brief speech in The Square before being whisked away on the next leg of his journey. CLIFF: About 100 people, many of them young, attended a viewing at Bury Baptist Church of the film "Two A Penny" starring the God-like Cliff Richard. After the show, the audience participated in gospel singing.

RABBIT: Elton Nursery School announced it would no longer have any permanent pets after callous thieves broke into the school to steal £150 worth of equipment and then strangled Dillon, the school's tame black and white Dutch rabbit.

PHONE: New instruction booklets which contain exchange codes for dialling calls to 24 foreign countries were distributed to Bury residents. The public could now dial direct to Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Israel, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, the USA, as well as most European countries. Added to this were 389 new UK codes.

SINGLE: A secretary, with qualifications to include accurate shorthand, typing, and 'single with no intention to marry for two years,' was being sought to work for Radcliffe based Northern Aromatics Ltd... for £1,800 per annum.

SHAKERS: Third division Bury FC beat Aldershot 2-1.