Sir Alan backs Bury youngsters
BURY Council has launched a campaign to help 100 young people gain valuable skills through work experience and apprenticeships. Backing Young Bury, which is supported by celebrity ...
Colleges get No.10 praise
LEADERS of the highest performing colleges and most quicklyimproving in England celebrated their achievements in Downing Street recently. Bury shone at the ceremony with two outsta...
Key role for Council chief
BURY Council’s chief executive is to play a key role in ensuring the nation’s teenagers are given quality education and training. Mark Sanders has been appointed to the board of th...
Olympics unites Fearns and Malaysia
STUDENTS from Rossendale and Malaysia are forming links as part of the 2012 London Olympics. Fearns Community Sports College and SMK Ranau, in Sabah, Borneo will be working closely...
Valley school is best in North West
TOP honours were bestowed on Haslingden High School for being the most improved school in the North West and the ninth most improved in the country. Headteacher Eve Challinger was ...
Apprenticeships: Earn and learn
APPRENTICESHIPS are becoming an increasingly important route to learning and in the forthcoming general election both Labour and the Conservative party have pledged to expand Appre...
Student Nicola earns her ‘independence'
NICOLA Deakin, has successfully completed a work placement at BHS Café in Bury’s Millgate Centre. Nicola, 23, who has Downs Syndrome, worked at BHS as part of a project which was r...
School appeal raises £16,000
A SPECTACULAR evening of hair and fashion raised £16,000 for Bury Grammar School’s Building Appeal. The Antony for Hair team created the ‘must have’ styles for men and women in 201...
