LOST: An all-night search by police for six-year-old George Parsons ended when the boy was found curled up fast asleep in the foundations of a new house being built only 230 yards from his Holme Avenue home in Brandlesholme, Bury.

COST: Bury Education Committee voted to review its youth services. Councillor F. Spencer declared that "a fabulous sum" had been spent on work which had for years been done voluntarily." He added that an instructor could make £3 6s for just two evenings a week. And Coun Moores interjected: "It is better than working!"

PENSIONS: Blind people were set to be the first to get payments under the new National Assistance Act. Meanwhile, the BT devoted a full broadsheet page to a review of the new health service and a look back at health care in the past.

WAKES: Bury holidays were set to see the biggest exodus since the war. But local folk were abandoning the west coast and Blackpool in favour of the south, notably Bournemouth. Holiday clubs were paying out more cash, too, partly due to more women being in work.

DOCKS: Dockers in London and Liverpool were on unofficial strike, but Bury Trades Council was divided on the issue. Mr J. Robinson said 30,000 dockers could not necessarily be wrong. But the secretary Mr H. Eatough, said they were crippling the country. If necessary, they should be forced back to work, "even if we have to use the army".

ADVERTS: Ridings Stores on The Rock were advertising "Hercules" bicycles for 4s 3d a week. And The People Sunday newspaper announced a new series by a London police surgeon "Crime Does Not Pay" - telling the secrets of the scientific methods of the police lab.

PARKING: For obstructing traffic with a parked car, a motorist was fined 10s. The court heard there was a car park 100yds away, and a policeman had had to redirect traffic round the car.

FILM: At the Odeon, Bury, Miranda - a tall story about a mermaid - was advertised as the film where "Every man wants to put salt on Miranda's tail....and every woman wants to twist it." It starred Glynis Johns, Googie Withers, Griffith Jones and John McCallum. From the Bury Times 25 years ago: July 3, 1973

ICELAND: Nine sixth-formers from the Derby School left for a month-long scientific survey in Iceland. The BT reported that friction was unlikely, even though the UK and Iceland were in a "cod war" dispute over fishing grounds.

RETIRING: Bury Trades Council said goodbye to its longest-serving official Mr Harry Eatough. He had held every official position on the council, from secretary to treasurer.

COUNCIL: The controlling Labour group on the Council was accused of shameful behaviour over the sacking of party rebel Alderman Fred Spencer from two committees. This followed Ald Spencer's resignation from the party in order to stand as an independent for the new metropolitan district council.

LIBERALS: The Liberal Party planned to give 1,000 beer mats to local pubs. The mats would carry details of Liberal policy.

SCOUTS: Venture Scouts David Garnett and David Grundy, with Dr Brian Peach, completed the Three Peaks hiking challenge in six hours, ten minutes - first recorded time by Bury Scouts.

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