INTO THE BLUE: The director of Public Prosecutions launched an investigation into missing "blue" films and magazines which were exhibits in a pornography trial involving a Bury man. Police said that out of a total of 420 sample exhibits seized, 17 magazines and five films disappeared before the start of the court case and four more had gone during the trial.

AN ODD OUTING: A group of 25 Bury Odd Fellows travelled on an odd coach and had a few odd experiences on a day out in the Yorkshire Dales.

After the driver took a wrong turning to Skipton, the coach refused to take the steep hills so the passengers had to get off and walk. When the coach radiator eventually ran out of water, the passengers filled it up from a nearby trough and, according to one, the vehicle then went faster that it had gone all day.

TWO'S COMPANY: The sun smiled again on Bury Agricultural Society's annual show, but whatever happened to the crowds? That was the question officials asked as they totted up the figures to find that only about 5,000 visitors, about half the anticipated number, had passed through the turnstiles at Broad Oak Farm.

HUT HIEST: A wooden hut worth £200 was stolen from Shannon Engineering Services Ltd in Leigh Street, Bury.