VANDALS: It didn't take the wreckers long to spoil Bury's new £234,000 Pyramid Park.

While only weeks away from being completed, vandals ripped down saplings, daubed slogans on the bridge, and, no different than today, hurled bricks, tyres and oil drums into the ornamental lake.

THE FLAME: The Bay City Rollers may have been wowing fans throughout the country, but three young Unsworth Comprehensive School pupils and their maths teacher were blazing a trail around Bury clubs with their new band The Flame.

The group, formed after teacher Mr Tony Amarnani set up a guitar club at the school, also included 13-year-olds Ian Dean and Hayley Caplan on guitar and Chris Bowden, 14, on drums.

Producing a similar sound to the "Shadows", The Flames progressed leaps and bounds and played at dances around the borough with re-appearances and six other bookings on the cards. EUROPE: Bury's 127,000 voters were preparing to make the most important political decision of their lives as the Referendum to join the Common Market approached.

TV: Television sets were being sold for as little as 20 pence as part of a mass clear-out by Roger Gaines who owned a shop in Rochdale Road, Bury, and was preparing to move his business to Chesham Fold.

ORGAN: Landing a plum job at the age of 14 isn't easy, but that was achieved when Edward Hughes of Higher Lane, Whitefield, who was appointed organist and choirmaster at St John's Church in Seedfield.

MISS ETAM: Stye, character and attractiveness combined to win 13-year-old Deborah Tattersall the title of "Miss Etam", while on holiday at Pontin's Wall Park Holiday Village in Devon. Deborah, of Cardigan Drive, Bury, was a pupil at Wellington School.