SETBACK: A moved to introduce six-day trading in the borough suffered a setback when a meeting of shopkeepers voted overwhelmingly against the idea.

IMPROVEMENTS: A £148,000 scheme to upgrade Bury General Hospital's Kenyon Ward was under way.

SKINT: Vicar of All Saints' Church, Elton, the Rev J. McFie warned the church would be broke in three years time. In an urgent plea to parishioners to give generously he said that the church would be £2,000 overspent at the end of the year.

AKELA: A presentation of a silver tray and a set of crystal wine glasses was made to the Akela of 18th Bury (St Marie's) Cubs, Mrs Evelyn Bailey. The gifts were in recognition of her long service to the Scouting movement and her recent achievement of gaining the Scouters Medal of Merit.

DANCE: Husband and wife dance team Roy and Elaine Sharpe of Dalton Close, Ramsbottom, completed a trio of successes by winning the British New Dance Championship at the Blackpool Dance Festival. They had already won two dance contests in British Association competitions.

COOL CUSTOMERS: Cool thieves "whipped" six gallons of ice cream and 10 litres of raspberry sauce from an ice-cream van parked in Whalley Road, Whitefield. EVICTED: Workmen are pictured moving into a Bury council house in 1975 to evict a tenant for rent arrears. The tenant was one of the first in the borough to be evicted as the authority started a "get tough" campaign.

Two tenants, one in Hornby Street, the other in Avondale Avenue, were peacefully evicted after rent arrears totalled around £300. They were among the first to lose their homes since local government reorganisation in 1974.