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  • 'I name this tractor...'

    DOWNLEY Common Preservation Society is calling on villagers to help them name their new tractor. The big red vehicle was unveiled on Sunday ahead of the annual Downley walk to mark out the boundaries of the common. It was bought after donations by society

  • 'I have found family I never even knew I had'

    A SEARCH for information about the death of an ancestor in a house fire in Stokenchurch has led a Lancashire woman to uncover distant relations still living in the village. Penny Bronte, 47, from Bury, travelled down to Stokenchurch on Tuesday to meet

  • New life for school opening as a nursery

    A SEVEN-year fight to save the derelict Sands First School came to an end on Tuesday when the building was reopened as a nursery. Stanley Greaves, who was headmaster at the school in Mill End Road 49 years ago, opened the renovated building to the applause