BURY'S tourist industry is sweet, and rock-ing all over the world according to The Town Crier newsagents on Market Street at the top of the the town's main street - The Rock!
Owner of the family business Alan Phillips, who runs his shop with the help of his wife, Carol, and daughter, Tina, said:
"I sell an enormous amount of picture postcards of Bury, which made me realise that we have quite a healthy interest from tourists.
"So I decided to set about and do my bit to promote the town by selling something a little different - a rock all of its own!
"We tend to get a lot of foreign exchange students visiting the shop, and the rock with Bury written all the way through it is going down a treat with them!
"Local people are buying it too, and sending it to friends and relatives all over the world.
"You never know, perhaps one day Bury will be as famous for its rock as it is for its black puddings!"
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