RAIDS: Bolton Road landlords called for police protection from a gang who had been terrorising the Arthur inn, Eagle & Child and Derby Arms. Meanwhile, in an unconnected incident, seven youths were fined for an attack on Manchester Road Community Centre, armed with bicycle chains and hammers.

SAVED: Ghulam Hussain, 14, caught baby sister Naseem as she fell from an upstairs window of their Manchester Road house.

READING: The Council's adult literacy project called for volunteer tutors.

P45: From Monday, the national insurance stamp card would be obsolete. It was unsuitable for entering contributions, which would in future be a percentage of wages. In future the inland revenue form P45 should be proffered by people signing on for the dole.

VETO: A plan to build 700 Barratt homes on a 56-acre site at Cams Lane, Radcliffe was turned down by Greater Manchester planners. Also rejected: 200 houses on a farm at Whalley Road, Ramsbottom and 95 at Kirklees Street, Tottington. VANDALS: Tenants in Rensahw Drive, Bury were liviung in fear of hooligans who were smashing up nearby houses. The homes had been vacated during the past four months as tenants were rehoused to make way for the new M66 bypass.

MACHINE: Walmsley Group shipped out a paper-making machine to Australian Paper Manufacturers, the seventh one built for them since the war.

DICKENS: The Cheeryble brothers, thought to have been based on the Grant Brothers of Ramsbotom, had their memory preserved by a special room bearing their name at the Grant Arms. The benevolent pair appeared in Dickens's novel Nicholas Nickleby.

PADOS: This Prestwich amateur theatre group took over the former library at St Mary's Road, Prestwich, as their theatre.

Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.