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• Heywood MP welcomes tram extension progress

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• Glaston-BURY pauses for emotional cheer as festival honours those who have died

  Earlier today, Monday 25 August, crowds at Glaston-BURY paused for a moving tribute as Christopher ‘Bucko’ Buckley took to the stage and called on festivalgoers to cheer in honour of those who have died.

• Festival fun in Bolton as celebrity chefs wow crowds at 20th Food and Drink Festival

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• 🟥 LIVE: Glaston-BURY live updates, photos, interviews and more

  Thousands of music lovers will descend on Bury today for Glaston-Bury, the annual one day music festival in aid of Bury Hospice and other local causes. Since it began in 2008, the event has raised over £300,000 and has become one of the town’s biggest highlights of the year.

• The group defending the moorland from wind turbines

  Scout Moor wind farm has dominated the skyline north of Manchester for two decades, now there is a plan to build 17 bigger, more powerful wind turbines on the cards.

• Government pledges funding boost to expand cadet opportunities in Bury North

  New initiative aims to open cadet forces to over 50,000 more young people by 2030

• Andy Burnham names dates when Heywood and Stockport Metrolink extensions should start construction

  Andy Burnham has named the date construction work should start for Metrolink extensions to Heywood and Stockport.

• House building plan costing £4.8m approved by town hall bosses

  Millions will be spent building thousands of new homes across Rochdale to address the housing crisis.

• Uniforms for cabbies suggested in Rochdale

  The idea of cabbies having a dress code in Rochdale has been floated by town hall bosses.

• Ann Summers to close Bury store two years after opening

  A lingerie chain that arrived with fanfare at The Rock shopping centre in 2023 will shut its doors this Saturday.

• Top GCSE results and standout pupils shine at Oulder Hill Leadership Academy

  Rochdale school celebrates rising results and remarkable student achievements for second year running.