5mins: Jaaskelainen tips over the bar from Bennett's long distance drive. 8mins: Jaaskelainen booked for dissent after a crazy passage of play. Morison was adjudged offside by the linesman on the far side but Howard Webb chose to wave play on – the
WANDERERS crashed to their ninth defeat in the last 10 league games – on an afternoon on tumbling records at the Reebok. Not only did this, a fifth consecutive home reverse, break a 108-year old milestone, but it also gave Norwich their first Premier
WANDERERS are out to avoid breaking a 108-year-old record this afternoon against Norwich City. Not since the 1902/3 season have they lost five consecutive games at home, but having been bettered by Sunderland, Manchester City (twice) and Manchester United
A MAN was air-lifted to hospital with “serious injuries” after a head-on crash in Wigan Road, Deane, on Saturday. A black BMW collided with a silver Toyota Corolla just before 12pm on Saturday. A boy, aged around 10, who was a passenger
THE top three teams in the Premier Division last season sent out a message of intent on the opening day of the new campaign. The big trio of Ramsbottom A, Flixton and St Catherine’s A all began with resounding 9-0 victories. Michael Moir,
I WONDER if anyone could help. The Sunnyside Development Group has been working for several years on improving Sunnyside Community Centre — which stands within Sunnyside Park Moisant Street/Chelsea Road/Westcourt Road off HIgher Swan Lane/Lever
WHILE I would agree with what Grenville Moore (“Blair wrong on morality”, September 9) has to say, I must emphasise the Bible is more than a book of moral guidance. It is the history of the divine plan of salvation for mankind. In the early chapters
AT a recent meeting of Smithills Branch Labour Party, attention was drawn to a leaflet delivered to residents in the Jesmond Road area by Liberal Democrat councillors about pavement repairs. Part of the leaflet made reference to work to the pedestrian
AINSLIE Casson is not the only one round here with a master's degree (The Bolton News, September 14). I’ve got one as well (with Distinction), though I don’t often wave it around. Like Mr Casson, I used local libraries as well as my university's
I WRITE in full support of Christina Taylor (YourLetters, September 13). The seemingly over-lengthy “review” of care homes operated by the local authority and, in particular Wilfred Geere and Laburnum Lodge, must have already led to a pressure
I SEE there has been another tragic accident involving schoolchildren and outdoor activities. I refer to the article on Tuesday about the outdoor activities coach who died after a canoeing accident involving boys from Bolton School. The report
RE the Bolton Road closure. We live about 100 yards from the closure on the Atherton side My wife, who works in Bolton, has left her car parked on the Bolton side for the last three nights, legally and proper, for ease of getting to work, avoiding
LAST Saturday, once again we celebrated the fourth “Spirit of Bolton” community event in Victoria Square. This event was led by the Bolton Interfaith Council and very ably supported by Bolton Christian Community Cohesion, Bolton Council of Mosques, Bolton
I REFER to a statement by Don Faulkner, of Holland Nurseries, Bromley Cross, that the polytunnels, subject to the “condition” by which they were to be dismantled by the end of March, had been in place since about 1990 (The Bolton News, September
I WOULD like to respond on behalf of LINks regarding recent letters on the letters pages concerning St Catherine’s Nursing Home. The LINk (Bolton Local Involvement Network) made an official Enter & View visit on December 8, 2010. The report was sent
OWEN Coyle has heaped praise on opposite number Paul Lambert for doing things his own way at Carrow Road. A Champions League winner with Borussia Dortmund in his playing days, the Norwich City boss has earned rave reviews after working his
A TERRIFIED family have told how they came under siege in their own home from a gang of rampaging yobs. One of the teenagers walked into the house and tried to steal the tel- evision as his pals hurled missiles through the windows. Aneela Khan, aged
IT is one of Bolton Museum’s more unusual gems but a 113-year old collection of moss has attracted a visitor from the other side of the world. Wendy Robyn, aged 62, travelled from her home in Brisbane, Australia, to visit her fourth cousin, Kath Hale
BOLTON Council bosses have been invited to a meeting to explain what has happened to money earmarked to be spent in Horwich. Horwich Town Coun- cil wrote to Bolton Council to ask where the £90,000 allocated under the District Cen- tre Improvement Fund
GARY Cahill admits he’s been having sleepless nights over Wanderers’ last two results - and now he’s expecting a few more. The England centre-half got a shock earlier this week as his fiancee Gemma was rushed into hospital to gave birth to a baby daughter
STUART Holden has been pencilled-in to make his first team comeback against Aston Villa in the Carling Cup. The US international, who has been out of action since March, came through 90 minutes for the reserves against Arsenal in midweek.
