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1. 12-year-old boy escapes abductor
Prestwich Advertiser, Monday 15 December 2003A BRAVE 12-year-old boy has told how he thought he was going to die when a stranger followed him through the streets of Radcliffe before trying to abduct him.
2. Planners become centre of attention
Prestwich Advertiser, Monday 1 December 2003CALLS for borough engineers to 'pull their fingers out' were heard as fuming Prestwich residents came face to face with the men in charge of their town centre's £1.5m re-vamp.
3. OAPS living in fear of crime
Prestwich Advertiser, Thursday 20 November 2003AN elderly close-knit community in Prestwich say they are living in fear at the hands of conmen who have plagued their sheltered accommodation for over a year.
4. Social services shake-up a bitter pill: leader
Prestwich Advertiser, Monday 17 November 2003BURY Council's shake-up of social services has been a bitter but necessary pill, insists leader Cllr John Byrne, after government inspectors awarded it a two star rating this week.
5. Facing facts
Prestwich Advertiser, Thursday 6 November 2003CLAIMS the £1.5m development of Prestwich's Longfield Centre has been badly planned have been refuted by Bury Council.
6. A sporting chance for youngsters
Prestwich Advertiser, Thursday 30 October 2003A SPORTS strategy for Radcliffe - which councillors hope will help prevent youth crime and breathe new life into the community - has moved a step closer to becoming reality.
7. Elderly urged to be on guard from tricksters
Prestwich Advertiser, Friday 10 October 2003CALLOUS crooks preying on pensioners in Radcliffe - one aged 99 - have prompted a call for the public to be extra cautious.
8. Gran, 85, calls for action on teenage thugs
Prestwich Advertiser, Friday 10 October 2003AN 85-YEAR-OLD great grandmother who says teenage thugs are terrorising an elderly community in Prestwich, is calling on headteachers of local schools to tell them enough is enough.
9. Schools are following debt trend
Prestwich Advertiser, Thursday 2 October 2003CONCERN is mounting after it emerged Bury's schools are following the national trend and slipping into spiralling debt.
10. String of attacks ‘will not force my family out’
Prestwich Advertiser, Thursday 2 October 2003A WOMAN who was carjacked on Sunday night - in the latest in a string of attacks at her Hollins home - has vowed not to be hounded out by villains.