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UPDATED 19/02/19: It looks like there’s been some changes to the dates of the roadworks now. Directly below is the most up to date information taken from the roadworks.org website.

Ramsbottom, lovely town but damn we don’t half have a lot of road works. One way to know that there is a school holiday coming up is to see how many planned road works there are due, and this coming week is no exception with no less than four major planned road works for our town which will no doubt bring everything to a standstill. Partly due to the limited routes through Ramsbottom in general.

As a result of these roadworks there will be changes to the bus routes.

If you want to check the full list of planned road works for yourself you can find them all on roadworks.org, however here are the main ones you should probably be aware of:

• Bolton Street 18th Feb – 20th Feb
• Carr Street 19th Feb – 21st Feb
• Bridge Street 19th Feb – 21st Feb
• Bridge Street 19th Feb – 21st Feb
• Bolton Street 26th Feb – 28th Feb

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It started back in October, a win against Trafford. 2-1, a good win, but little did we know at the time how far we would go.

Ramsbottom United, our Ramsbottom United, the little team sitting on the bank of the River Irwell, often the underdogs, would progress this far in the FA Trophy.

We host matches on soggy pitches, with borrowed lights, borrowed stands, hot drinks in real mugs and Rammy Ultras singing out loud.

Ramsbottom United, have done us proud. Never before have we progressed as far as we did this year. To travel as far as Weymouth, where some would have predicted our journey would have ended, but no, we kept our heads up and came away with an amazing win. We were in the news, on the radio and on TV.

After 12 matches though, it came to an end. Against a team, three leagues above us, but not three leagues in quality. Several times we created chances, and we truly gave it our all.

AFC Fylde 4, Ramsbottom United 1.

Our hearts may be heavy, but we should all be proud of that little club, from the banks of the River Irwell, with our borrowed lights, borrowed stands with echos of songs and chants of “Come on you Rams!”

You’ll no doubt have seen or heard the news recently that Santander, currently the last remaining bank in Ramsbottom is to close.

This was reported in The Bury Times as well as other media outlets.

In the last few days, letters have started to arrive through customers doors.

It’s a shame that these letters are arriving after the news was broken via other means, but I can understand that they want to try to manage the publicity on this.

I’ve pulled out some of the information and documents regarding this closure below as well as identifying that the document created regarding the closures was done so in December.

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After a monumental win over Weymouth, Ramsbottom United have tonight done what they’ve never done before, progressed to the last 16 of the FA Trophy.

This was a second leg of Saturday’s match where we hosted Weymouth at The Riverside. This ended in a 2-2 draw in dramatic fashion after a last minute equaliser from substitute Iyrwah Gooden. After the long journey down, where some of the Ramsbottom United players drove themselves down, the Rams had the perfect start with an own goal by Weymouth after just 32 minutes from a cross by Tom Kennedy.

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