This site is administered by both the Affetside Millennium Green Trust and the Affetside Society Affetside Link Newsletter Archive (click on month) Latest News July BBQ The Village BBQ raised a total of 370 Pounds for the Village funds. Many thanks to all those involved and those who attended. Special thank go to Tony R for graciously donating the food for the event. May 2010 24th May 2010 - Clothes Collection The next clothes collection is on Monday 24th May. Deliver in well tied bin bags of clothes, shoes, bags, belts, soft toys, bedding and curtains to no 20 by 10.00a.m. The more the bags weigh the more the company will pay!! - all proceeds towards Village funds Speed Limits Bury MBC have approved the trial of 20mph speed limits through the Village, with the possibility of chicanes being installed should the monitoring of the traffic indicate that the speed limit is not being observed. 18/07/2009 - Interactive Forum goes live... The Village has now gone LIVE!! Feel free to use our interactive forum to chat with other Affetsiders. A simple registration procedure is all that is required. Use button on left or click here 04/08/2009 - Black Lane/Tom Nook footpath improvements... The footpath which runs down past the side of the pub and leads to Turton Road is under going substantial refurbishment. Over the past three years the path has had its surface upgraded and overgrown vegetation cut back and now the lower part is being resurfaced. This is the old Packhorse Route to Rossendale and is referred to as Tom Nook, and also as Black Lane in many documents, and was even mentioned in the court rolls of 1531. The depth of the path below the surrounding ground level gives an indication of it age and previous usage. 09/09/2009 - Local weather page goes live... The Village weather page has now gone LIVE!! Feel free to browse the information uploaded, it is quite comprehensive! Use button top left or click here An aerial view of Black Lane can be found HERE 26/11/2009 - Website disappeared... The Village website went offline from Weds 26th Nov until Weds 2nd Dec. Unfortunately this was beyond our control. It would appear that we had exceed our bandwidth (amount of visitors) due to the growing popularity of the website. This shouldn’t happen again as we have been given greater bandwidth by our web hosts Core Digital, and as we are a charity they have waived their charge for us too! January 2010 - New Speed Limit The 20 mph speed limit come into force in January. All the signs have been up for some time. We are told that traffic moitoring will take place to asses of the speed limits make any difference, if they do not then some physical measures will be put in to slow the vehicles down. To sign up for our e-Affetside Link, and have the newsletter and Affetside.org.uk website updates delivered directly to your email click this button June 2010 - Clothes Collection Latest..... Thanks to all who contributed to the Clothes Collection as we have raised £72 for Village Funds. There will be another clothes collection later this year; watch this space for details May 2010 - Dog Poo Bag Dispenser We seem to get many visitors who see the Green as an ideal dog toilet. In order to reduce this problem we were granted funding to buy a dog mess bag dispenser. This was kindly installed by our  Green Chairman, Tony, and was unveiled by both our local MP  David Nuttall and local Councillor Yvonne Wright. David was accompanied by his dalamation CeCe who was very  well behaved and thus David did not require the services of the new dispenser. We hope this will help to clear up the problem