NAMELESS: Local MP Frank White gave his support to residents who protested about their street's poor lighting, crumbling road surface and non-existent name-plate.

The street sign disappeared along with the house it was attached to when demolition men move in. When a neighbour died a year earlier, his body was taken to Walshaw because no-one could find Hall Street in Elton. NEW SCHOOL: Tottington South Primary School in Moorside Road was officially opened. Throughout the week junior pupils from Tottington Methodist School, which had been retained as an annexe of the new school, and the infants of St John's Free Church of England School, which was closed, were moving into their new single-storey school.

LUCKY: A housewife and her three month old baby came within inches of death when a 17-ton lorry crashed onto the pavement in Parkhills Road, Bury.

Mrs Patricia Quinley, who was 22, watched as the lorry loaded with wood pulp toppled towards her.

She told the Bury Times: "I couldn't believe my eyes. I was waiting at the corner with the baby in the pram to cross the road when I saw the truck coming.

"I pulled the pram back into the drive of a house and it missed us by inches."

The driver of the lorry was unhurt.

HEATWAVE: Summer sunshine in the sweltering seventies and the holiday spirit of some 10,000 visitors placed the seal of success on a relaxed Bury Agricultural Show, the ninth successive annual show at the Broad Oak Farm site.

The continual clicking of the turnstiles spelled financial happiness for the show organisers who were announcing a healthy profit for the event long before the day was over.

BOG STANDARD: A disturbing report on vandalism in the borough's 57 public toilets revealed that £19,170 was needed to bring the loos up to scratch.

ALL OUT: A 24-hour picket was placed at the entrance of the United Carriers depot at Pilsworth while 120 workers went out on strike. The men, all members of the Transport and General Workers Union, walked out after accusing the management of refusing to discuss a claim for a 25 per cent pay increase and an extra week's holiday a year.