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Education, Local Services
Libraries reduce cost of DVD Borrowing
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 […]
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Education
Well Done in GCSE Results
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 […] -
Education, Local Services
Sedgley Children’s Centre to Open
Prestwich’s first “Children’s Centre” opens officially on Thursday 10th July, at Sedgley Park Primary on Kings Road.
The centre will be opened by a selection of children of different ages. The children will officially open the Children’s Centre at 3:15pm.
Following this you will get the chance to walk around the centre and chat to […] -
Education, Local Services
Library “Online” Drop-in
Bury’s Library Service are encouraging local people to get on line at the library and try out some fantastic resources for free some “drop-in sessions”.
These free sessions are designed to allow anyone to pop in to their local library and access some fantastic information about their family history, famous faces in history and art […] -
Meeting Reports, Bury Council, Education
Executive Committee 11 June 2008
Last night was the regular meeting of the Council’s Executive Committee. This is made up of nine members of the majority Conservative Group on the Council, myself and the Leader of the Labour Group attend as non-voting members.
The decisions reached were as follows:
Local Area Agreement
The final submission to Government on the targets for Bury’s […] -
Meeting Reports, Bury Council, Schools, Education
Full Council 12 December 2007
Last night was the regular meeting of the “Full Council” in Bury. It was a packed agenda with a number of important topics. Please see the separate posting about the debate on Congestion Charging.
As usual my colleagues in the Liberal Democrat group asked some very probing and important questions to the Council Leadership. These included […] -
Meeting Reports, Bury Council, Schools, Education
Executive Committee 28 November 2007
Last night was the meeting of Bury Council’s Executive Committee. As one of two Opposition Group Leaders on the Council I sit on the Committee alongside the portfolio holiding members from the largest Group.
It was a very long and full agenda, with a number of important issues. The full agenda, together with all the papers […] -
Meeting Reports, Prestwich, Schools, Education
Prestwich Arts College Governors
Last night was the termly meeting of Prestwich Arts College Governors. This is one of two local schools that I represent you as a Local Education Authority Governor.
It was a very good meeting, and the mood of the school certainly seems very good after the difficult times it went through two years ago when it […] -
Holyrood Ward, Meeting Reports, Schools, Education
St Margarets School Governors
On Tuesday I attended the Governors for St Margaret’s CoE Primary School on Heywood Road. St Margaret’s is one of the two schools in the ward which I serve as a Local Education Authority (LEA) Governor.
At the meeting the Head Teacher reported on the outstanding Diocesan Inspection report that the school received from the Church […] -
Meeting Reports, Bury Council, Prestwich, Schools, Education
TWO children’s centres for Prestwich!
Bury Council has given the financial go-ahead for not one, but two Children’s Centres in Prestwich.
At it’s Executive Committee on 12 September at which I represent the Liberal Democrat Group, the Council agreed just under £500,000 for a second children’s centre to be located at Butterstyle Primary School. Go ahead has already been given […]
Tim Pickstone
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