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Sometimes it feels like rarely a day goes by in Ramsbottom without a new bar, restaurant or coffee shop opening, this month is no different. Nestled between Pizza Nova and Woodholme Supplies, opposite St Paul’s Church you’ll find The Ram in the old Ramsbottom Flooring premises. If I recall correctly, Ramsbottom Flooring struggled to get back on their feet after the boxing day floods (comments below if I’m wrong).

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If you weren’t already aware (if you’re a parent you’ll know) March 7th is World Book Day.

You’ll no doubt see many local children dressed up in various characters on their way into school (I know ours will be).

So what’s going on in Ramsbottom? Well, there’s story time at Ramsbottom Library:

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Today, Ramsbottom was back on the radio again (I’ve mentioned this before on the podcast).

This time, we were visited by BBC Radio 1 presenter Jordan North. “Butt” why were they visiting Ramsbottom of all towns on a Thursday morning? Well, it’s because we have BOTTOM in our name.

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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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