From the Bury Times July 2 1974

HEALTH: A desperate shortage of money forced the chairman of Bury's Area Health Authority, Mr Murray Fink, to make a personal appeal to the Department of Health, He claimed the health service was being run on a shoestring and laid the blame on a lack of liaison.

EXCHANGE: A party of American youngsters from Iowa staying in Bury received an invitation to meet the patron of the Derby School, Lord Derby.

RATS: A group of mothers were considering witholding their rates and marching on Bury Town Hall to try to force the council to brick up eight empty houses in Laurel Street which they claimed were havens for rats.

CUSTARD: Traffic on Bolton Road at the Three Arrows junction, Radcliffe, was restricted to two lanes after a lorry spilt its load of custard tins all over the road. Many of the tins burst open and formed a yellow stream down the centre of the road.

TOILETS: A magistrate called on Bury Council to repair public toilets in Rochdale Old Road after a man appeared in court charged with indecent exposure. The court heard that the toilets had a hole six inches by four inches giving a clear view between the ladies and gents loos.

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