STRIKE A LIGHT: Bury's striking firemen revealed plans for a mass resignation was being considered. They claimed to have public opinion on their side in the fight for better pay and conditions. However, they felt that the longer the strike went on, the more their own consciences would bother them and the mass resignation would keep their good name clean.

GREEN GODDESS: Three soldiers and civilian were injured in Bury when a Green Goddess fire appliance on the way to a fire was in collision with a taxi, hit a house and then overturned. The accident happened as the Green Goddess at Rochdale Road's junction with Heywood Road. Striking firemen at the Bury Station heard about the accident and raced to the crash scene in their own cars and also turned out one fire engine in case any of the soldiers had to be cut free from the wreckage

NATIONAL FRONT: A spokesman for the Bury branch of the National Front confirmed a meeting would be held in the town centre in the near future. Branch chairman Mr James Marshall-Bridge said the meeting would be peaceful and not a march. The Bury branch had 40 members.