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A new drive-thru coffee shop can be built on an Asda car park at the cost of 66 spaces, Bury Council’s planning committee has ruled.Euro Garages, owned by the billionaire Issa brothers from Blackburn, has been granted planning permission for the new coffee shop at the Asda site in Radcliffe.The company has recently received planning permission for 37 new roadside services with petrol stations and drive-thrus including a Starbucks in Bolton.But the location of the new coffee shop at the store’s car park in Pilkington Way will result in the removal of 78 spaces and create only 12 new ones.Radcliffe West councillor Mike Smith told the planning committee on Tuesday that this goes against the council’s plans to expand parking in the town as part

A road in Radcliffe has been shut after a huge sink hole emerged in its surface.

DEALSWye Oak’s Jenn Wasner has signed her Flock Of Dimes solo project to Sub Pop. Available right at this very moment is new EP ‘Like So Much Desire’.APPOINTMENTSFormer MD of Warner Chappell UK, Mike Smith, has been named Global President of Downtown Music Publishing. He replaces, well, no one.