THE wife of former Bolton Wanderers footballer Colin Hendry died from meningitis after a tragic "chain of events" stemming from a botched liposuction operation, a coroner ruled today. Denise Hendry, aged 43, whose husband was nicknamed "Braveheart"
A MAN has been jailed for child sex offences in Bolton. Liam Gore, aged 20, of Hazel Grove, Farnworth, has been jailed for four years and four months at Bolton Crown Court. The sentence includes an unrelated offence of affray that happened in August
RICARDO Gardner has linked-up with former Wanderers assistant Phil Brown at Preston North End. The Jamaica international has moved to Deepdale on a one-month loan deal after recovering from a long term knee injury. Gardner made his playing
BOLTON West MP Julie Hilling has joined local residents in their bid to reinstate the butterfly house and exotic animals at a local mini zoo. The popular Animal World attraction is currently undergoing drastic changes following savage central cuts to
BOLTON U8 5 LEIGH 5 AGAIN, the U8 game was as close an affair as the U7 game earlier, but with one small difference, these were two sets of players ready for the contact version of the sport next year. As these young people develop it is
THE wife of former Bolton Wanderers footballer Colin Hendry died in hospital after a bug in her body spread to her brain causing meningitis, an inquest has heard. Denise Hendry, aged 43, whose husband was nicknamed "Braveheart" as captain
Join Thomas as he roars down the tracks with his most special delivery yet, The Lion of Sodor which will be released on DVD on Monday 28th March, 2011. We have teamed up with the distributors to promote their competition to give five lucky readers the
Jump aboard for over three and a half hours of fun with the bumper special edition Thomas & Friends™ DVD The Complete Series 12 which was released on 21st February. Packed with 20 thrilling railway adventures from the series and featuring special animated
GRETAR Steinsson is desperate to help Wanderers reach Wembley – even though he has no idea where it is. Owen Coyle’s men take on Birmingham at St Andrews on Saturday in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup. With the semi-finals also at the national stadium
The Full Monty St Paul's Players Adlington Community Centre Runs until Saturday Tickets £8 concessions £6.50 from 01204 407784 The question was would the gentle little village of Adlington be ready for such a raucous night of action? I can
OWEN Coyle is hoping the Reebok’s new theme tune will continue to keep Wanderers on song. There has been a mixed reception to the new goal celebration tune after it got its first airing in the 3-2 victory over Aston Villa. Wanderers blasted the Depeche
BOLTON’S industrial past is the inspiration for a new exhibition at the Neoartists’ gallery, in Corporation Street. The solo show by Margaret Jackson is titled “Works”, a word which Margaret saw graffiitied on the wall of Hick Hargreaves, in
NOW we don’t usually preview things this far in advance, but sometimes an announcement gets us so excited that we just can’t help ourselves. Fans of boundary-pushing pop and Professor Brian Cox* will be thrilled to hear that the Flaming Lips are set to
FANS of Neuron No! — one of the two bands formed by former Planets frontman Mike Chadwick — were able to get their hands on a copy of the band’s debut EP at their gig last weekend. The trio — completed by Chadwick’s former bandmates Martin Roscoe and
GUY Garvey has revealed he's had horrible nightmares in the run-up to his latest album release. Elbow release their fifth album, Build A Rocket Boys!, this week and Guy said he and his band mates had all been suffering nightmares as a result. “I have
JUSSI Jaaskelainen’s vital penalty save on Saturday was a triumph for a really outstanding player and a reward for the club’s backroom staff who leave nothing to chance in their preparation. Match of the Day focused on it, highlighting how Jussi won
Police are hunting a man who sexually assaulted a teenage girl on a bus. It happened on the number 507 bus as it pulled out of Bolton Bus Station, Moor Lane, between 10.40pm and 11.15pm on February 7. The girl, 13, had been out with friends and
TEMPEST United will rely on their home form to stave off relegation from the Premier Division. The Chew Moor-based men are deep in trouble second bottom of the table, but they have six straight home games following this weekend’s trip to Fulwood
SIBLING rivalry spiced up the Open Cup second round clash between Brindley Arms and Cyns Tavern with three Porter brothers involved. In the event it was Brindley’s Ryan Porter who won the family bragging rights against the side of his two other
WESTHOUGHTON youngster Richard Flanagan produces a stylish forehand in front of the Davis Cup audience as part of an under-8s tennis exhibition at Bolton Arena. Richard has a real passion for tennis and trains four nights a week at the Arena
I HAVE just received a Focus leaflet from two of my councillors in Horwich North East — Bob and Barbara Ronson. However, the leaflet seems to be edited by two other people who I have not heard of before. I know that it is a usual Lib Dem tactic
I WOULD like to encourage all readers to think carefully about the question on religion in the upcoming 2011 Census. The results of the question are used by Government, local authorities and service providers when deciding how to run services
DANNY Melling snatched a lastgasp equaliser to earn Leigh Athletic a 1-1 draw at Premier Division high-flyers East Manchester. A point was no more than the Latics deserved after a spirited second-half performance. The Manchester men were good
TOM Valentine led Howe BridgeMills’ 5-2 defeat of Chew Moor Brook in the Premier Division. TheHowe Bridge ace grabbed a double to send his side up to fifth in the table. Valentine opened the scoring from the penalty spot and further goals
BOLTON’S Emma Saunders admits the business end of the British Gas National Championships has begun after cruising through the 200m freestyle heats in Manchester. Saunders took to the water on no less than five occasions over the weekend, competing
I SEE once again the bleeding heart brigade are out in force, complaining about salary levels. Someone who is the chief executive of a town the size of Bolton would be the equivalent of a managing director or chairman of a medium-sized company,
WHEN Fairtrade products appeared on supermarket shelves all those years ago, I thought it was a breath of fresh air that, finally, growers in poorer parts of the world were being paid a better price for their produce than the usual poverty prices
WITH reference to the consultation into the future of Bolton’s libraries, I suggest that instead of us filling in answers to the council’s questions, we should be asking a few of our own. For instance: Why are you cutting front line services instead
I TOO, along with “Concerned Christian” would like to know if any costs were made for policing at Great Lever and, if so, how much? We nearly lost our Remembrance Day Parade in Horwich because of the costs and might still do in the future.
R. SWINDELLS (Tuesday March 1) says the Royal Bolton Hospital is far better than six years ago. How does he or she know that? Is he or she on the wards on a daily basis? I met David Fillingham, the chief executive, some two years ago following
RE: Plan for stable (The Bolton News, February 28). Unbelievable! How stupid do people like the “applicant” think members of the public are? Should they be given permission to replace the stables with a bungalow, are the horses going to live
WHO does David Cameron think he is trying to impress? The USA? He should keep his nose out of Libya. Has he not learned anything from Blair’s disasters in Iraq? Cameron is in the process of cutting our armed forces to the bone. He was lucky
Westhoughton United Reformed Church is celebrating its 200th anniversary with a weekend of special events. This weekend will mark two centuries since founder William Alexander created a congregation in the town and a foundation for the church
A WOMAN who was on life support with swine flu is recovering. Carol Williams, from Bromley Cross, is now able to talk to her family and is expected to move to a Manchester Royal Infirmary general ward, from high dependency, this week.
A FATHER with motor neurone disease has turned to pioneering technology to preserve his voice for his young son. Laurence Brewer, from Bolton, is using the voice software Model Talker to “bank” 1,600 phrases and sentences to enable him to continue
A DISABLED man who was fit enough to leave hospital three months ago is still there — because a suitable home cannot be found for him. Darren Lancaster, who lost his left leg when he was just 14, underwent major surgery in November last year
THE girls of Bolton School were celebrating International Women’s Day today by remembering how pioneering women won them the same educational rights as boys. While many schools were established as early as the 1700s, it was not until the mid
THE ownership of Bolton’s council houses will be transferred to a new, independent Bolton at Home Councillors have voted to formally approve the stock transfer of all 18,500 properties despite almost a quarter of tenants voting “no” to the plans
LAST week I attended St James Palace in London with a group of young people from Salford who were collecting their Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award. Although not from Bolton, they were part of more than 200 young people from the North West to receive
THE rise in the price of gold has seen Prestons of Bolton buy more than £4 million worth of old jewellery from thousands of customers in the last two years. To mark the modern day gold rush the company surprised the 10,000th customer to call
A BROAD and balanced curriculum that helps youngsters achieve their future goals is essential to meet the individual needs of schoolchildren, the headteacher of one of Bolton’s top performing schools has said. John Porteous, head of Turton School
A STAR-studded ball organised by Wanderers skipper Kevin Davies raised £138,000 for his charity helping children in Bolton. And Bolton funnyman Peter Kay was the surprise guest of honour. The top comedian agreed to take part at the last
ANY couple married for 43 years could expect to be close — but Gordon and Virginia Haslam have discovered they are so close their birth certificates even have consecutive numbers. The couple, who met in their early 20s, were born six days apart
ACOMPANY has been ordered to remove waste dumped into ponds at a Bolton farm. J Doyle Ltd, of Gaskell Street, Bolton, appeared at the town’s magistrates for tipping waste into ponds at Barton Fold Farm in Lostock. Pri Peruma, prosecuting, told
HUMAN remains have been found by builders working on a new social housing scheme in Bolton. Contractors working on the Great Places and Bolton Council Westpoint housing block in Deansgate are thought to have disturbed the burial ground of the
FANS and ex-colleagues of former Bolton Wanderers defender, Gary Parkinson, turned out in force for a fundraising dinner in his honour. The 42-year-old had a stroke last September and has been suffering from “locked in syndrome”, which means
TWO men who threatened a babysitter holding a young child during a night-time burglary have been warned they face jail. Christopher Kirby and Dwayne Yarwood kicked in the door at a house in Union Road, Tonge Moor, 12.30am on October 2 last year
A PENSIONER plied schoolgirls with drink and cigarettes and gave them cash if they allowed him to perform sex acts on them, a court heard. Bolton Crown Court was told 81-year-old Miklos Szabo, who was aged 79 at the time of the alleged offences
TWO thugs, who kicked a nightclubber in the head “like he was a football” have been jailed. Carl Pendlebury was left unconscious with bleeding on the brain following the attack in Bolton town centre, a court heard. Yesterday Matthew Green and
A DRUG dealer has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison and ordered to pay back the money he made from his crimes. Mohammed Ashred Khaliq, aged 27, of Campbell Street, Farnworth, was sentenced at Bolton Crown Court after
BOLTON Council’s chief executive has said he has no problem with plans to reveal spending on taxpayer-funded credit cards — because he does not have one. Communities Secretary Eric Pickles wants all local authorities to make public details
CORONATION Street stars Simon Gregson and Beverley Callard have signed up to the One Bolton pledge to support the concept of Bolton as a welcoming town. The stars, who play Steve and Liz McDonald, were in Bolton shooting scenes for the soap
A SNIFFER dog led police to a £51,000 cannabis farm after it helped to catch a suspected drug dealer with 14 bags of cocaine in a Bolton pub. The 31-year-old man was arrested after English springer spaniel Marley used his super-sensitive nose
TWO brothers have admitted stealing a television from the Red Cross — but deny causing £10,000 worth of damage to take it. Dean and Martin McEvilly yesterday pleaded guilty at Bolton Crown Court to burglary. But they claim that Martin, aged 39
A PENSIONER has died after he was hit by a car in Bolton town centre. The 71-year-old was on a pedestrian crossing near Bath Street in Topp Way at 7.40pm on Sunday when he was hit by a greyBMWX5. Paramedics tried to resuscitate him as he lay in
Villa fans may disagree but I think we fully deserved the three points on Saturday. Referee Kevin Friend and his assistants were awful, and had Villa scored from the spot, it would have been game over, and there may well have been a riot.
ZAT Knight is aiming to be back for Wanderers’ Premier League clash at Birmingham on April 2. The giant defender’s recovery after damaging medial knee ligaments against Everton last month is going better than expected. And Knight, the only ever-present
LOUD, brash and at his arrogant best - Liam Gallagher is most certainly back. Yes, the Apollo was filled with hordes of Oasis fans, eager to see what one of Manchester's most famous sons was capable of without his older brother. And
