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  • Protesters anger over go-ahead for Go Ape

    A TREE-top adventure course has been granted retrospective planning permission for two zip- wire landing sites. But the Friends of Lever Park, which has been cam- paigning against the plans for the Go Ape attraction in Rivington, and The Open

  • Pat, 59, set to strut her stuff on the catwalk

    CANCER sufferer Pat Heffernan never saw herself as a catwalk model, as a busy mother-of-three she did not have much experience in the field! When she was invited to pick an outfit from John Lewis, have her hair and make-up done and walk down the

  • Cars and vans seized on motorway

    A POLICE crackdown on road crime has taken place across Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Lancashire, Merseyside, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire. Operation Hubble saw a number of officers, and Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) equipped

  • MP calls for action to halt growing jobless figures

    CALLS have been made for the Government to take action on unemployment by Bolton North East MP, David Crausby. The latest figures showed the number of jobless is continuing to rise in Bolton and around the country, with 2.51 million people

  • Torture victim tells of his ordeal

    A TEENAGER who was tortured with red-hot hair straighteners has told how he thought he was going to die at the hands of two brutal thugs. Antony Dabbs said his life was ruined when Christo- pher Lilley and Richard Johnson pulled off his trousers