HEBREW HQ: Bury's first synagogue was officially consecrated by the Chief Rabbi, Dr Immanuel Jakobovits, in a ceremony attended by leading civic and Jewish dignitaries. The synagogue of the Bury Hebrew Congregation, in Sunny Bank Road, was the result of great efforts by a growing Jewish community to establish a focal point for its spiritual care in the borough.

CARE HOME VANDALS: A former old folks home in Bury was to be demolished after vandals and thieves ripped off the roof.

SLOW RESPONSE: People in Bury were not coming forward for polio immunisation despite two cases reported in Rochdale. Specialists blamed the slow response on "jabphobia" even though the operation simply involved swallowing a sugar lump containing the vaccine. CHILD CRIME: Juvenile crime in the borough was spiralling. The number of young people before the courts went up by almost 75 percent to 775 and the biggest number of offenders came from the 14-16 age group. Girls accounted for 74 of the total.

DRY RUN: There were no beer supplies leaving Bass Charrington's Pilsworth depot as a safety dispute between the management and delivery men entered its second day. About 70 drivers and their mates were clocked off after they refused to work as normal.

BUMS ON SEATS: Draft proposals for changes in Bury's voting wards called for 16 instead of 15, but no extra councillors. The extra ward would be created in Radcliffe (North, Central and South). Whitefield's two wards would be renamed Besses and Philips Park, and the three Prestwich wards would be St Mary's, Sedgley, and Holyrood. Ramsbottom and Tottington would have one ward each while Bury's six wards would retain their names: Elton, Moorside. Church, Redvales, East and Unsworth.