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Ramsbottom on the radio again – Episode 126

February 12, 2019 by Lee 2 Comments

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Radio

It’s inevitable when living in a place such as Ramsbottom for it to feature in many mainstream forms of media. You know the sort, Newspapers, TV and of course Radio. Find out exactly where the reference was this time on this week’s podcast.

Free Exercise!

Bury Venues are looking to start a FREE keep fit class at Ramsbottom Civic Hall and are looking for instructors. The instructor will be paid for their time.

These classes will be every Tuesday evening, 7pm until 7.45pm at no cost to those attending.

If you’re interested or know of anyone that might be please let them know. ramsbottomcivichall@bury.gov.uk 0161 253 5513

Snow and meet the Mondi Paper Mill Owners – Episode 125

February 3, 2019 by Lee Leave a Comment

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Snow, you’ve all had it, hope your week hasn’t been too bad with it.

James Frith and Rishi Shori are meeting with the owner of the Mondi Paper Mill Site and representatives from the banks.

Local girl Emma Greenwood is now the Youth MP for Bury.

A huge congratulations to @emma_ymp who is Bury’s new elected Member of UK Parliament! Thanks to @NumairKhalidMYP our former MYP from 2017 and @BethMortenson our DMYP may we congratulate the new crew!🥳🎉🎉@UKYP @bycLIVE #YouthVoice https://t.co/so6GOZmkKa

— Bury Youth Voice (@BuryUKYP) February 1, 2019

Paul Jenkins performs his fantastic poem for Ramsbottom United.

Was Park 66 a secret MI5 base? – Episode 124

January 29, 2019 by Lee 1 Comment

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Items discussed on the podcast this week:

Ripon Hall Avenue Country Club Decision Made.

Was Park 66 a secret MI5 base?

Park 66 is planned to reopen after around £20m worth of investment to develop the site. What can we expect?

Why is the M66 not illuminated by street lighting?

Why does the Queen own two properties in Summerseat?

Further details regarding Santander branch closure

January 26, 2019 by Lee 3 Comments

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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Latest Food Hygiene Ratings for Ramsbottom

January 24, 2019 by Lee Leave a Comment

The Bury Times has recently published an up to date list of food establishments taken from the Food Standards Agency website of various Food Hygiene ratings for Bury.

Rather than just throw a link in your face, I thought I’d go through and provide a Ramsbottom specific list for you. I’ve removed some which are listed as Ramsbottom but are a little outside the area so I’ve trimmed the list.

Thankfully, we currently have no one or two star ratings in Ramsbottom and the vast majority of our ratings are in the five and four star ratings.

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