COPIES of the BEN's petition to help save Bolton Magistrates Court from closing by December can now be signed at the Barlow Institute in Bolton Road, Edgworth, after the campaign receiving the backing of North Turton Parish Council.

Magistrates' chiefs and the BEN have joined forces to collect 20,000 signatures in a bid to save the historic courthouse in Le Mans Crescent. Cases would be transferred to Bury.