Bury, Greater Manchester The 2008 Mercury Music Prize winning group "Elbow", fronted by Guy Garvey, hails from Bury and in 2009 the group was awarded the Freedom of the Borough after their 2008 classic album "Seldom Seen Kid" won several accolades including a Brit Award and Mercury Prize. Bury hosts several music festivals yearly, including the 'Glaston-Bury' festival on the August bank holiday weekend, and the Ramsbottom Music Festival, closing the festival season in mid September. While Glaston-Bury hosts mainly local/upcoming bands, Ramsbottom Music Festival hosts a wider range of talent, including bands such as "Soul 2 Soul" and "The Proclaimers". The festival
The Mercury News sustained the newspaper's business operations. Additionally, newspapers across the industry faced serious competition to their job listings from websites such as Monster.com, CareerBuilder, and Craigslist. Knight Ridder instituted several rounds of layoffs at its papers, prompting Harris to resign as publisher in 2001. Cost-cutting began affecting the initiatives the paper had started in the 1990s. In June 2005, the "Mercury News" closed its Hanoi bureau. On October 21, it also announced the closure of and sale of "Viet Mercury" to a group of Vietnamese-American businessmen. However, the deal fell through, and "Viet Mercury" published its final issue on November 11,