EVERYTHING you wanted to know about Bury as it heads into the new Millennium is now in one handy document.

Residents can snap up copies of the borough's new official guide.

The full colour 85-page Millennium edition is packed with facts, figures and information about the area, the organisations and companies in it and the people who form its local communities. Everything from leisure and entertainment to education, the borough's history and its present day twinning links across the world are covered.

Also included is information about the council, a section on the borough's native sons and daughters as well as the high profile Irwell Sculpture Trail.

Council leader Derek Boden said: "The official guide has been produced to mark the dawn of the new Millennium and the end of the 20th Century in the metropolitan borough of Bury.

"We hope that it reflects the area not just as it is today but gives a view of its past and also looks to developments in the new century."

Coun Boden added: "It is packed with information about our borough which will be of interest not only to those who live and work here already but also to those who may be considering moving to or even visiting us here in Bury."

Residents can buy copies of the guide, which costs £2, from Bury Town Hall and at council information desks and libraries around the borough.

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