Near paris on friday in a suspected islamist terror attack. The victim has been named as 47 year old samuel paty. New zealands prime Ministerjacinda Ardern and her labour party have won a second term in office with a landslide general election victory, after campaigning on their success in handling the coronavirus pandemic. Hundreds of people have been queuing at a hospital in eastern china where a covid 19 vaccine is being offered to the public for the first time. It costs about 60 but has not yet completed clinical trials. Now on bbc news. When bury fc collapsed last august 2019, a group of locals made it their mission to bring football back to their town against massive odds. Bury fc is one of the oldest clubs in english football. But in august 2019 it was expelled from the Football League. We are heartbroken. Bury till i die just gutted. One group of fans decided to do something about it. I want my kids to be able to grow up with my Football Club. Come hell or high water, this is the right thing to do. Wed kick ourselves if we didnt. This is bury, this is bury. With complete access for 12 months, we see what it really takes to build a Football Club. More stressed than ive ever been. It was a dream. Its now becoming a reality. Were very impressed with the candidates. Were too locking nice. Not getting paid anywhere near as much as the premiership players. Everyone here is doing it for the love of it. But we didnt, though. I know we didnt, but. With divisions in the fan base. Started calling us rats, thieves, looters. And in a year where football has faced its biggest crisis. All uk football matches have been cancelled. Could have picked a better time to do this, couldnt we . The fight to bring football back to bury. Come on, bury 6 4 gentleman getting in the worlds smallest car. I sold my car. Gears crunch knew id do that i want my kids to be able to grow up with my Football Club. Thats my reason for getting into this. Making sure that pretty much every kid in bury is able to watch a bury team. If hed have sold the club when he had the opportunity to, this divide wouldnt be there. I didnt even know there was a Football Team called bury, to be honest with you. He went on the radio and on the tv and said, id never heard of bury, i didnt even know there was a Football Club there. Im not a football fan. Not being funny, why would you buy a Football Club if you never knew that there was a Football Club there, you have no interest in football, you dont know anything about it, why would you buy a Football Club . So the answer is no, youre notjust in it to make a fast buck . There is no fast buck to be made in football. Hes come into a Football Club and hes ruined it for a community. If theres not a Football Club, weve got nowhere to go, nothing to do. Its almost like a member of the familys died. I mean, its dead to me now, i dont want to watch any football. Chanting bury till i die im bury till i die yeah, if it wasnt for steve dale, we probably wouldnt be in this position, i wouldnt be chairing the Football Club and id probably be enjoying games back at gigg lane, but hes done what hes done, and i cant change that, really. This is the show that looks at the money behind the beautiful game with me, kevin day, and football finance expert at liverpool university, kieran maguire. Were talking about the demise of bury. Bury Football Club is the story of two men. The first was called stewart day. Whilst his other businesses were successful, everything was fine, everything was hunky dory. Stewarts other businesses then collapsed. I wanted to do a bit of a video with regards to whats going on at bury Football Club. I worked at the club briefly in, like, a self employed role and i had a few issues. Absolutely rubbish, the way that things were going under stewart day. And he put the club up for sale very quickly and he sold it for £1. The start of a new era for bury Football Club, led by the man on the left. When steve dale came in, i thought, all right, 0k, things are changing, things are looking up. Weve just all got our fingers crossed. You cant buy anything for £1 these days, let alone a Football Club with 130 years of history. Were going to restructure the debt, thats the main thing, but what im not is an atm. And within about six weeks, he also stopped paying the wages for the staff, players, everybody else connected with the club. Its dismay. Theres people worried about their families and how theyre going to support them, because weve not been paid, its running into 12 weeks now. We are all here to save bury Football Club and im prepared to go to any means. Bleep stop it come on ill bleep have you its noisy here, its angry here. If i go, dont come back and blame me. Steve dale had to prove to the Football League that he had enough money to run the club or sell it, otherwise bury fc would have to stop playing football. Things have developed actuallyjust in the last few minutes, weve just had a statement from the efl which says that bury fc have had their membership of the league withdrawn. For it all to end like that just so sad. Its devastating, just not fair to the fans of bury but the entire community of bury, really. For me to walk away from bury and never go back is a very easy thing to do. 134 years of history brought to an end, a community in shock. I didnt realise how much i missed gigg lane and how much it means to the fans. My son is buried in the cemetery next to gigg lane. We had a little boy, he passed away 20 minutes after he was born. I used to obviously go to the cemetery and then go and watch the game, and ijust have them few moments because where his headstone is facing, it points towards the ground. It was my release from what happened. Hopefully one day we can be back there and i can do the thing of going and seeing my little one before a game again, but this time as chairman instead. Normally, id park my car, go in through that gate, go and take my seat, usually about three to four rows away from the away dugout so that i could give grief to the away manager. Fans chant you think about the good times that youve had here, the games that youve watched, the fun that youve had with your mates. Heartbreaking, really. Its why i try to avoid coming down, in all honesty. There can be no doubt where many thousands of the towns citizens are on a saturday afternoon. This is gigg lane, home of burys league Football Team. Bury fc has been part of the Community Since 1885, the winners of two fa cups, and one of the oldest clubs in england. If you want me why wont you give me a sign . If you need me why wont you jump into line . If you want me. And there is the final whistle the shakers are the champions great end to the season, carnival time all day, we knew we were promoted and, yeah, its been a great day. Its not many times you get to finish champions in the league and be captain for the day. Going to Party Tonight . Yeah, certainly will, ill have a few beers tonight. Its been three weeks since bury were kicked out of the league. The stanley club was a match day pub for many fans, including adam, his sister hannah and their friend helen. This used to be hustling and bustling before matches and it was packed, you couldnt even get to the bar. Yeah. Our family, going back, its years of following this team. It is a community, and when that gets taken away and its out of your hands, thats whats the really frustrating and the heartbreaking thing about it. They have asked about at what point we come back and at the moment they cant give them an answer, so thats the heartbreaking thing, because you always want to be able to give your children an answer. Yeah, big part of life ripped away. In october, bury fans get one day of football back. One of my friends basically said, would i be interested in helping him put something on. Chris has helped organise a Charity Football match to raise funds for the future of football in bury. Were still raw, its still raw for people. Were still upset and worried. The match isnt at gigg lane. The ground and bury fc belong to steve dale, so the game is at the neuven stadium nearby in radcliffe instead. You know, we wanted to give them something to smile about. I think its a brilliant coming together of community in celebration and recognition of the club. Im supposed to be being induced, and they wanted me to be induced asap, and i said, can it wait till monday . Because i wanted to be here. Bury means so much to us all. Brilliant honour. Fantastic honour. Both teams are made up of ex bury players. Im the kind of lover i wanna give you what you need. I didnt see any of the game. I was too busy. Offside. I think the only time i actually properly saw the grass that they were playing on was when i was walking round at the end of the game. Theyve managed to raise over £14,000. A lot more people are feeling a bit more positive. Cos i think today, what has happened today, shows people, if we all get involved, what we can do. Im feeling a bit emotional now, at the moment. All i can say is, bury Football Club will be back. Well rise. One, two, three. They cheer lets go get the Party Started youll know how to get it lets go get the Party Started youll know how to get it going im so fired up. After the charity match, a group of fans, including chris, adam and jon, decided to create a new club from scratch. Theyre local builders, marketers and engineers with no experience of running a Football Club. We sat there and spoke about what the plan was, how we wanted to work, you know, we wanted it to be for the fans, by the fans. I feel so fine im making moves, im getting mine and i need you to get in line cos if were going to make it well make it right. Some fans get on board with the idea of a phoenix club. For others, only the return of the original bury fc at gigg lane will do. I want bury Football Club back at gigg lane. Its as simple as that. Ifelt like i had a bit of a responsibility to the people of bury, to actually look to try and help in whatever way i could. Interviewer where are we going at the moment . Were going to newtons. Were going to my office. Chris is working on the phoenix club in his spare time, and everyone involved is a volunteer. It was not an intention when i first got involved to be doing this right now at all. It was born out of frustration of steve dale not doing what he needed to do with the Football Club. You think about it and go, well, ive got two young boys at home, and youve obviously got three kids who are all bury fans, and ijust look at it and go, look, im doing this so that my two lads have a Football Club to support. Were doing it. Because wed kick ourselves if we didnt. Christmas is approaching, and the first major decision for the phoenix club has been made. The fans have voted, and it now has a name, bury afc. But tensions are rising in the town. The original bury Football Club has no team and no manager, but it still exists, and some people think the focus should be getting bury fc back on its feet instead of starting a new club. Its always a good start when somebody goes, im going to ask you some awkward questions. Its nothing personal. Fans are here to discuss the options for bringing football back to the town. Chris needs to put forward the case for the phoenix club. I understand that its a case of you want to watch bury fc. I want to watch bury fc. Last year was the first season i was able to take me eldest lad to watch a game. He absolutely loved it. This year, i cant. Its killing me. But he has competition. The phoenix club isnt the only option on the table. Im a big supporter of the underdog, and i think at the minute bury is the ultimate underdog. You could tell there was a lot of emotion in the room, which is understandable, given the situation. Theres people who just want bury fc as it is, in its current form. I think that we will all come together. I really do. And thats all we need for gigg lane to rise again. The problem that it is when people have different opinions, it splits the families, and it is already split. Applause people are venting. You know . Yeah, sure, some of the stuff that gets sent is horrendous. They started calling us rats, thieves, looters. It doesnt bother me, some of the things that get said, it really doesnt, because, you know, im a big boy, i can handle comments. When we get a Football Club out, hopefully theyll change their mind and start to come and watch again. There hasnt been a football match at gigg lane for eight months. Today, supporters of Yorkshire Club rotherham are making a stop in bury before their away game in rochdale. Chatter you know, weve come to support them and, as were told, their team, you know, to keep them in business, keep the community going. And if we can help, well help, cos its a shame, whats happened to the club. Were going to win 2 0 up the millers. Up the millers jon and another bury afc volunteer, simon, organised the visit. We have gatherings in here, with meetings and stuff, and theres been, like, about four people playing snooker in the back room. We all got up at six oclock this morning, we met in our local pub at eight oclock. Weve had a breakfast, weve travelled here. Well be back home for half past six tonight. That is football. That is what footballs about. And these poor lads are missing out on it. All the pubs around our old ground completely shut down. They dont exist any more. Weve seen exactly what its like, and it is horrible. Its so important tojust keep these going so then, when we do get back in september august, september first game of the season, we can all come in here and say, you know, we tried, and we kept them up and we kept them going. You know, we live in a cynical age, and i think once people really realise in the town what the phoenix is trying to do, theyll get behind it. Weve started to see more and more that people see it as being a serious thing. They dont see it as being, 0h, this is just a group of 13 to 15 idiots that are involved in creating something, that are just trying to drive something. 0ur club has a second chance. The efl . Not fit for purpose. Its very easy to sit in a Committee Room somewhere and lose a 135 year old club. And they seem to not hold themselves responsible. Andlj hold them responsible. And so its us, the people, who will make sure that football gets played again. Damian collins is an mp. He chaired the committee that investigated why bury collapsed. Its really brought home that Football League clubs in particular are nothing without their local fans. They cannot function as businesses without fans coming through the turnstiles to watch them play. And whats shocking about the way football is run is that fans often have no or little voice in how their club is run, whos allowed to acquire it. And yet theyre the ones that pick up the pieces on behalf of the community when it all goes wrong. The football authorities faced some tough questions after bury was expelled. The Football League, the Football Association and the premier league. Mps want to know what financial checks took place before steve dale bought the club. Itsjust stunning to me that somebody takes over and doesnt have to. Reallyjust has not to provide you with anything. Any sort of Financial Plan or anything before you get the go ahead to take over the club. I mean, i find that extraordinary. Dont you find that surprising . He was then asked to provide the financial information. He didnt do that. He did not do that at that point. But he had already purchased the club at that point. The efl said that steve dale bought the club without showing them he had enough money to run it, something mr dale disputes. If the Football League had imposed its own rules properly, i believe bury would still be playing in the Football League today. Its time for the rotherham fans to go to their match in rochdale. It shows that, even though maybe the football organisations might have forgot about bury Football Club, the fans and the football family hasnt forgot about bury Football Club. I was, like, more or less crying again today, just seeing the crowd that were in, and the passion that they had is what we had with the bury fans. And its so sad when they all go, thinking, well, next week, its going to be closed, and youve got nothing like this now. Its such a shame. In september, you didnt know if you were ever going to see bury again play football. Now were in march, it looks a lot more bright. Therell be football in august, no matter what. Bbc news. Football postpones its professional programme. All uk football matches have been cancelled. Professional football in england, scotland, wales and Northern Ireland has been suspended because of the coronavirus outbreak. The fas postponed all premier league, english Football League, international and womens games. The coronavirus pandemic means that every football fan across the country gets a taste of what bury supporters have been experiencing since last august, life without football. They all talk at once three weeks into quarantine now, and i can very much assure you that life is not the same without football. I tell you what, im missing football so badly. Not being able to talk to your mates about what the result was. Ive been trying to keep busy. Boy, do i miss not being able to go and watch them on a saturday afternoon. That match on a saturday is a bit of escapism for everybody. Trying to make sure that my football skills are still in place, ready for when all this finishes. And there are worries some clubs wont survive the pandemic. We are now the bookies favourites to follow bury out of the Football League. Weve lost bury, which was a real tragedy, a famous club that im very fond of, nearly lost bolton. Theres others that are hanging in there by threads. I dont think another bury is likely, i think perhaps dozens of burys are likely. Theres no if, itsjust a case of how many. Im working out of my kids bedrooms. Ijust want my office back. I was doing me roof. I looked over, and you can see gigg lane. Itjust seems like a ghost town, like, over there. We were going to have a launch event, then obviously everything happened with the coronavirus. Despite the pandemic, bury afc decide its time to launch and allow fans to become members. Its £5 a month, and theyll get a say in the clubs future. We said, well, if we got 250 members in, like, the first six months, then wed be happy. Weve got 325 people signed up. So weve already surpassed one of the targets that we wanted to hit in six months. Weve done it in, like, seven days, near enough. And theyve begun to hold their meetings online. Next was management recruitment. We cant control it. Welljust carry on doing what were doing until were told otherwise, really. To the people of bury, nobody would have foreseen the circumstances in which we now take to the field with limited crowds, and a world turned upside down. All quiet on the weather front. A lot of cloud around. Still quite stunning despite the grey sky. Certainly better than where we were a couple of weeks ago when we had the wettest day on record. If you showers in the south west, then a little drizzly rain across the north east and a lot of cloud. We should see a few more breaks developing across eastern england, perhaps into the midlands through the afternoon. The story remains the same through the rest of the afternoon. In terms of the feel of things, a little disappointing into the north, particularly with the cloud and the wind direction. 8 10. 1113 cloud and the wind direction. 8 10. 11 13 elsewhere. Where we have had the breaks, we keep those clear skies through the night. We can see a touch of mist and fog forming. You week where the front continues to push some patchy rain into the north of england. Single figures quite widely on sunday morning. Almost a repeat performance as we move into sunday. That week where front will still continue to bring a few more showers here and there. Low pressure gathering, a sign of what is to come from monday owners. To make the most of the second app of the weekend, we keep the cloudy theme. A light breeze and predominately dry, not too bad for many. That week weather front just enhancing too bad for many. That week weather frontjust enhancing some drizzly nice perhaps across the far north of england. Like windsor, if you catch a show close to the coast it could be slow moving. 6 13 , a coalition feel. Low pressure arriving to the latter stages of the sunday into monday. All change into monday. Some wet weather to Northern Ireland, across scotland and into western fringes by the end of the day. South and east should they largely drive, comedy when picking up and coming from a southerly direction. That will change the feel of the weather. A little milder in the south east. 15 degrees the expected high. That pressure still influencing the story through the middle part of the week. All change for our week ahead. It looks likely that it is going to turn pretty windy at times. Increasingly unsettled, but as you can see, a tad milder in comparison to of late. This is bbc news, im rebecca jones. The headlines at two millions of people are now facing tighter coronavirus restrictions in england with lancashire in the north west entering the highest alert category and household mixing banned indoors in london. But there is still stalemate over greater manchester. But there is still stalemate over greater manchester. And coming up in 15 minutes, well be answering your questions about what you can and cant do in yourarea. Stay with us for that. 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