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Taking a shot for calendar

6:30am Tuesday 16th March 2010

ENTHUSIASTIC photographers can win bags of exposure by capturing a familiar image to be featured in a 2011 Bury calendar.

Teenage armed robber is locked up

5:57am Tuesday 16th March 2010

A NINE-YEAR-OLD boy pleaded for his life as robbers broke into his home and bound him and his mother with tape.

JP retires after 26 years

LONG SERVICE: Bob Fielding, left, receives a certificate marking his 26 years from John Hyndman, chairman of the Bury bench

6:10am Tuesday 16th March 2010

AFTER serving 26 years as a Justice of the Peace, Bury man Bob Fielding has certainly achieved an enviable “bench” mark.

Bullet fired at car window

SEALED OFF: A police cordon in Holmeswood Road, Great Lever

6:00am Tuesday 16th March 2010

A CAR windscreen was shattered by gunfire as two groups of men clashed in Bolton.

Delegation in London bid to ban EDL rally

6:03am Tuesday 16th March 2010

A cross-party delegation will today meet a top Home Office official as part of a bid to get Saturday’s planned English Defence League rally banned.







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