From the Bury Times week ending June 24, 1974

LOTTERY: Mr Henry Cliff of Bury Chameber of Trade suggested that a council-run lottery could drastically cut rate bills.

FIRE: The east wing of Daisyfield Mill in Wellington Street, Bury was gutted by fire at the weekend.

MARKET: Threatened rent rises of 20 per cent could force traders to leave Bury Market, they warned.

CASH: Bury's free family planning clinic was forced to draw in its horns after it spent more than half its £8,500 yearly budget in just two months. SAVED: Slaughtermen Ian Tremayne and Tom Sharrock saved an unborn calf with a kiss of life after its pregnant mother was savaged by dogs and had to be put down.

STORE: A giant superstore was planned for the old Hall's toffee works behind Whitefield bus station, recently bulldozed flat.

AMOK: A 30-ton bulldozer ran driverless out of control along half a mile of the M66 construction site at Heap Bridge after a youth, 17, shorted the ignition, a court heard.

SHAKERS: Bury FC's AGM heard that promotion to the 3rd Division last year had increased gate receipts. Club finances were also helped by a land sale at the Gigg end.

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