I might pop up Bury at some point (thinking of moving to the Manchester area anyway), but I think Bury can have it's own forum on it's site, and keep the oople forum.
In Jimmy's defence, this is his forum, and if there's a lot of fighting and bitching going on, it reflects badly on him and the forum, and he can't allow that to go on. On your own forum, you'll have the same pressures, but only your forum would be affected by it.
You could probably set a forum up on your website as it is. Check the control panel area and you should be able to tell pretty soon. If you can't, have a loook at the people who host my site which is
www.tsohost.com (I can't recomend these guys highly enough!) I'm sure other people can recommend equally as good hosting providers.