CLINT Dempsey scored twice as Wanderers came down to earth with a bump at Craven Cottage. After the adrenaline-packed victory over Arsenal on Sunday, it was a familiar sinking feeling felt in the capital as Mark Hughes' Cottagers ensured their Premier
DANIEL Sturridge misses out in tonight's game at Craven Cottage with an ankle injury – prompting Owen Coyle to restore Sunday's match-winner Tamir Cohen to the starting line-up. Coyle makes just one change against Fulham as his side aim to leapfrog Everton
Whilst a large section of the world's population suffer from hunger and malnourishment, in this country approximately 10 BILLION pounds worth of food and food products hit the waste bin! Perhaps it amounts to vulgarity and most of us don't even
WANDERERS are set for a £9.75million windfall in prize money if they can remain eighth in the Premier League. Clubs will earn around £750,000 – down £50,000 from last season – for each place they finish higher up the table, with the champions set to
BOLTON Mountain Rescue volunteers have taken delivery of a new £130,000 fleet of ambulances and all-terrain vehicles. A series of donations has allowed the team to replace their ageing vehicles with three new Land Rover ambulances, a minibus
CURATE Mark Cowling will be leaving the pulpit and heading for the open road to raise money for charity. The clergyman based at St Peter’s Church, Smithills, will be taking part in the Great Manchester Run on Sunday, May 15, along with fellow
INTERNATIONAL Workers’ Memorial Day is tomorrow and at noon in Bolton Town Hall Square, Bolton Unison members will be handing out leaflets and purple ribbons, in memory of all those killed at work. Due to Government cutbacks of 35 per cent to
AN “EMBARRASSED” local election candidate has blamed a friend for signing him up to an internet group which encourages strangers to meet up for sex. Sean Harkin says a pal signed him up to the online group for people who enjoy illicit encounters
TEN primary schools are to expand to meet the rising number of school places needed in Bolton. The latest Government figures suggest Bolton will have demands for a further 350 school places by 2013, with half that figure needed immediately.
AT THE mention of the name Derek Guest, those of a certain age will be transported back to the golden age of vinyl. He is also well known for running Russells underground cafe in Bolton town centre, which has reopened after refurbishment. Now
REGARDING the letter “Proof that the 'Big Society' works in Bolton” (April 23) by Kath Kavanagh, Conservative Candidate. Kath gives a very flimsy and not entirely accurate example of what the Big Society actually is in practice. If the ideas
LIKE many hundreds of people who came to Victoria Square last Saturday, I also took an opportunity to sit down and watch the whole of the reenactment of the Easter story. The Lord blessed us with a sunny day which was an added bonus to what was
THE recent letters from Robert Goodman, Andrew Davidson, Brian Derbyshire and Rosalind Horrocks all paint a very sad, demoralising and depressing picture of Bolton. However, for one reason or another, none of the four really gets to the heart
I READ in The Bolton News that Bolton is launching a campaign to make Bolton a city. How on earth would Bolton qualify to be a city, with nothing in it? I am sorry to say that our successful Premier League football club isn’t in Bolton; remember
I AM heartened that Elaine Sherrington is taking an interest in the review of libraries, but, sadly, I feel she has not taken enough interest in Astley Bridge Library or she would have got her facts right. Firstly, there were no firm plans to
KEVIN Davies will grab the ball if Wanderers are awarded a penalty at Craven Cottage. The captain fluffed his spot-kick with a tame effort in Sunday’s thrilling 2-1 victory against title-chasing Arsenal. But five of Davies’s nine goals this season
A MAN has been charged with the murder of his wife. Rickie Nehls La-touche, aged 30, was arrested after the body of a 28-year-old Thai women was discovered at a house in Maple Crescent, Leigh. He is due before Wigan magistrates tomorrow
OWEN Coyle has warned Daniel Sturridge he must keep playing if he is to continue his remarkable progress. The striker will return to Chelsea at the end of the season after a stunning loan spell with Wanderers. But 21-year-old hotshot could still find
A PRIMARY school, which saw the council’s education chiefs “step in” to help run it after standards dropped, is now on track to become “the very best it can possibly be”. Government education watchdogs have praised Chorley New Road Primary
FORMER Bolton pop star PJ Proby has appeared in court accused of cheating the benefits system out of more than £47,000. The Houston-born singer, who used to live off Chorley Old Road, had been due to enter pleas to nine charges relating to
LADIES are being urged to get in the pink and raise funds for Bolton Hospice. The charity is holding its Pink Rose Ladies Lunch on Thursday, May 19, at Rivington Hall Barn, in Horwich. Women are being invited to attend the event and enjoy a drinks
ALMOST 500 people have applied for just 14 jobs at Bolton’s newest new supermarket. Jobseekers flooded the new Tesco Express, in Manchester Road, Kearsley, with applications to become checkout operatives and shelf stackers. The figures mean
THIS is the moment a motorist narrowly avoided crashing into a house after he had hit a gatepost. The 84-year-old lost control of the Ford Ka he was driving and careered off the road before hitting a concrete gatepost. He came to a halt
BOLTON College is supporting Deaf Awareness Week which gets under way on Monday by organising a number of events. From Tuesday to Friday, Bolton College’s deaf learners and staff will be wearing black and orange, the colours of the National
THESE CCTV pictures show the moment a gang of teenagers broke into a scrapyard and began hurling petrol bombs around. The youths’ actions sparked a huge blaze at Chadwick’s scrapyard in Oakenbottom Road, Breightmet, on Saturday night.
A THIEF arrested after being caught trying to break into a house and a car, went on to break into other vehicles while on bail. Bolton Crown Court heard that Christopher Griffiths was caught last October when a resident in Vernon Walk, Bolton
A BURST water main disrupted supplies to hundreds of homes in Bolton. Many people were unable to wash, take showers or make a cup of tea after getting up yesterday morning. Part of Bradford Street in The Haulgh was cordoned off to traffic
THE new Mayor of Horwich is “excited” to be taking on the position for the first time. Cllr Peter Baxendale has been on the town council for four years, and will serve for a further term after a candidate pulled out of the elections. He has
THERE is just over a week to go until Boltonians head for the polling stations to cast their vote in the local council elections. Next Thursday, May 5, unlike in previous years, voters will also be deciding on whether or not a new electoral
PEOPLE planning Royal Wedding celebrations in Bolton can watch a party food cookery demonstration at Bolton Market from 11am to 1pm tomorrow. NHS Bolton’s community nutrition chef Joan Farnworth will be cooking up a storm in the market’s cookery
BOLTON is putting the final touches to Royal Wedding street parties across the borough. As neighbours come together to celebrate the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton on Friday, a total of 14 roads will be closed across Bolton.
RESIDENTS are being warned to keep their wheelie bins away from their homes. The advice comes after firefighters tackled an accidental fire at a bungalow in Mayfield Avenue, Farnworth, on Tuesday. A small fire started when the homeowner was burning
A MURDER investigation has been launched after a woman’s body was found at a house. Police were called to Maple Crescent, Leigh, at about 7am yesterday following calls from neighbours about the welfare of a 28-year-old woman. When emergency
A PENSIONER says she is scared to be in her own home after a drug addict burglar subjected her to a terrifying ordeal. Burglar Simone Powell tricked her way into 73-yearold Kathleen Higgins’s home in Halliwell and watched as the pensioner suffered
The whole welfare system is currently under review. Apart from the 'well-known' abuse of the system , which , needless to say, must be stopped, the actual 'benefits' for honest ordinary law-abiding people are likely to alter significantly. One reason
