PUB TAKINGS: Thieves got away with £500 in a raid on a Bury pub. The intruders broke into the living quarters of the New Inn in Walmersley Road by forcing a rear window. As well as one night's takings, the burglars also took the pub's social fund and darts club savings, the contents of a charity bottle and the cash from a one-armed bandit.

TV DODGERS: Forty-one television owners, summonsed for having no licences appeared before Bury magistrates. The offenders were fined a total of £669.

CESSPOOL OF IMMORALITY: The Rev R. J. French, of Bethesda Pentecostal Church, Bury, was to launch a nationwide petition against the proposal by a Danish film producer to make a film in Britain entitled Love Life of Jesus Christ.

The film was originally planned for Sweden but a swell of objections from across the globe forced the film-makers to look elsewhere. The Rev French said: "It seems that this country is to become the recipients of a work that other people refuse to be involved with. This country must surely now be regarded as one of the major cesspools of immorality in the world." HOT STUFF: Bury fire brigade was still fighting its toughest battle since the wartime blitz as moorland blazes in the area raged on. It was confirmed this week that Bury had only 70 days water supply left while Ramsbottom and Tottington had only about 40-day's supply. Exhausted firemen were voluntarily working 12-hour shifts to combat blazes sparked off by the heatwave and were carrying packed lunches because they were unable to get back to base for meals. Bury fire chief, Wilf Linton, was using his Fiat saloon car as a "mini" fire engine.

BOWL MOVEMENTS: Processed waste was to be poured on to Council bowling greens in a bid to beat the drought.