From 1 September Bury Library Service are launching a three month pilot scheme to reduce the cost of borrowing DVDs. The scheme will allow library members to borrow DVD’s, which have been in stock before the 1 April 2008, for just £1 a week and DVDs added to stock after 1 April at £2.20 for a week’s loan.

Additionally, library members who also have an Active Lifestyle Discount Card get the added benefit in being able to borrow any DVD and benefit from a further 50% discount. To see if you may be eligible for a discount card check the leisure services web page.

To check any items that are available for you to borrow search our website using the online facility.

Well done to all the local students who will have got their GCSE results yesterday. I know our local schools are going to be proud of their achievements again this year - I’ll let you know more analysis when this becomes available.

In the meantime, the individual results for our local high schools are below:

Parenthorn High School
Prestwich Arts College
St Monicas RC High School

Across Bury, provisional figures indicate that 68% of students have achieved five or more A* to C grades, an increase of 5% on last year. Bury students have also excelled in the new benchmark of gaining five or more A*-C grades, including a C or above in both English and Mathematics. This year’s result of 56% is 3% above last year.

Well done.