SHAKERS JOIN A NEW TEAM...
BURY FC has launched a brand new venture in association with The Best of Bury. The Bury FC Membership scheme will offer supporters the chance to benefit from priority booking on ti...
ENTER THE DRAGONS!
A NEW springboard and highboard diving club in Bury has won medals in its very first competition. Bury Dragons Diving Club took a 13- strong squad to the Great Britain Diving Feder...
On top of the world
RADCLIFFE AC’s Anna Lupton has been reaching for the sky and won herself a world title! Lupton was part of a British relay team in the Italian Alps who took on one of the most grue...
No change for tenpin
LOCAL tenpin bowling club, Tenpin Bury, is still in business at Pilsworth. Assistant manager Mike Irving points out that Tenpin Bury, or Megabowl, as they were formerly known, are ...
New-look Shakers find their feet
THE beginning of the season is a particularly fractured period for any club in the lower leagues of English football. Teams will have to adapt from the relative ease of pre-season ...
Happy Jack’s Lancs memories
BACK in 1968, Lancashire cricket had been in the doldrums for several years, and the county committee despaired of finding a new captain. “Will you do the job while we look for som...
Golden day for stars
GOLD was the colour for Bury’s young sporting stars when they triumphed in the Greater Manchester Champions Challenge. Team Bury won seven events (seven gold medals) in badminton, ...
Play off hopes hang by thread
GIGG Lane is empty. The gates are padlocked shut. The club shop is closed, it has been for weeks. The players have long since departed. The loud echo of the social club doors slamm...
Choose a sporting achiever
NOMINATIONS are now open to reward local people who make an outstanding contribution to sport. Bury Council’s sports development team, in partnership with Radcliffe and Bury South ...
Pupils give all for Sports Relief
STUDENTS and staff at Fearns Community Sports College donned fancy dress to complete the Sport Relief Mile. They took time out of lessons to run a marked course around the school g...
Dedication pays off for Pioneering girls
THE Pioneers Cheerleading teams from Bacup were up against fierce competition at elite level when they took part in a national event at the Manchester Velodrome. The girls had been...
