FIREFIGHTERS rescued a 14-year-old boy who had got stuck up to his waist in mud on on waste land at the back of Wharton Lane, Little Hulton. Crews from Farnworth and Eccles were called at 7.45pm. They had to use a special all terrain
SAM Ricketts said some Wanderers players were ill with worry last week. The defender admits it was difficult to contemplate playing football in the first few days after Fabrice Muamba’s collapse at White Hart Lane nine days ago. But
WHEN Bill Shankly said “football is not a matter of life and death, it’s more important than that” I think most football fans understood what he was trying to say. Yet when Fabrice Muamba collapsed on the White Hart Lane pitch, the legendary
DARREN Pratley believes the energy passed on from the Reebok crowd on Saturday helped him make sure the toughest week of his footballing career ended on a good note. The midfielder admitted he had been badly affected by the nightmarish scenes at White
FABRICE Muamba got out of bed for the first time this weekend as he continues to make encouraging progress in his recovery from a cardiac arrest. It is now nine days since the Bolton midfielder collapsed during the first-half of an FA Cup quarter-final
The Lancashire Telegraph’s Blackburn Rovers reporter Andy Cryer says what it was like for Steve Kean’s men to take part in Saturday’s emotional derby YOU got the feeling the footballing world was willing Bolton on at the Reebok Stadium, leaving
BOLTON manager Owen Coyle has revealed Fabrice Muamba watched his team-mates in action against Blackburn on Match of the Day yesterday morning - and fell asleep when the score was 2-0. Coyle has reported a further improvement in Muamba's condition over
DAVID Wheater reckons his pal Fabrice Muamba will have a hard time believing he had bagged a brace to win the Lancashire derby relegation showdown. The big centre-back scored twice with his head inside seven first-half minutes to ensure three points
Carousel CATS Youth Theatre Theatre Church, Seymour Road, Astley Bridge RENOWNED Bolton-born theatre critic Eric Bentley once said some rather mean things about Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical Carousel, but this rather sweet production by CATS
MANY thanks to Paul Richardson for putting across the problems of the traffic chaos that will definitely be created when the proposed Tesco Store is built in Little Lever. I say when it is built because the only thing that stands in its way is
MR Cameron said on Radio 4 last week that anyone anywhere could walk into a surgery or hospital and get quality care. A gentleman told me on Monday that his sister came up from the south for a week and was taken ill in Bolton. She went to the
IT is becoming increasingly obvious that without a large increase in growth, the Coalition is going to miss its deficit reduction targets. That is not to say that Labour has got it right. They accuse the Coalition of cutting too deep and too
CRAIG Mather wrote in his letter to The Bolton News (March 22) to ask BMBC how much money was spent on the City Challenge debacle? From experience, one very rarely gets a response from the BMBC to letters in this esteemed publication unless
BOLTON law firm KBL Solicitors is one of the main sponsors for this year’s Bolton and Bury Business Awards. Michael Slater, head of litigation at the firm in Mawdsley Street, tells The Bolton News about the firm’s work and its sponsorship of
I WAS astounded to learn this week that the Community Support and development Centre (CSDC) based at Mere Hall, Halliwell, is closing at the end of this month, the reason being is “lack of further available funding”. Not only that, but this has
TWO teenagers who were arrested in connection with a spate of arson attacks in Smithills have been bailed. A 15-year-old and 17-year-old were arrested on Friday morning and were questioned by officers. They have now been bailed pending further
THE former Pack Horse Hotel will be fully converted into luxury student digs by the end of July. More than 70 students have now applied to live in the new Bolton town centre development, which will welcome its first tenants in September. The
A WHEELCHAIR basketball club which has been going three decades could fold because of a lack of funds. Bolton Bulls, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, is struggling to keep going in the current economic climate. The club
THE Running Reverend, fairy princesses and even a group of Morphs joined hundreds of people to give Sport Relief a run for its money. The sun shone on around 700 people who gathered at Leverhulme Park yesterday to take part in the Sainsbury’s
TWO separate protests held in Bolton town centre were largely troublefree. About 50 members from the North West Infidels, and 100 members of Unite Against Fascism, staged demonstrations in Churchgate on Saturday afternoon. The two groups chanted
FIREFIGHTERS are warning people to take extra care after the onset of warm weather sparked a spate of grass fires across Bolton. Crews have been called out to numerous incidents, many started deliberately by youths, and others started accidentally
FABRICE Muamba was able to watch fans’ tributes and match highlights from his hospital bed. The 23-year-old, who remains in intensive care, was given the bedside cheer when he followed Wanderers’ 2-1 victory over Blackburn Rovers on BBC’s Match
IF there was one thing more inspiring than the outpouring of affection for Fabrice Muamba over the course of Saturday’s derby, it was the thought that the midfielder would be watching it from his hospital bed. The club, the town and it seems
A GOOD luck message from Fabrice Muamba was read out in the dressing room moments before Saturday’s derby victory. The Wanderers midfielder sent a short note from his hospital bed wishing the team good luck, and is understood to have watched highlights
WELL, what can I say? It’s been emotional. Despite all the talk of winning it for Fabrice Muamba, I privately feared that it might just be a step too far for players who had to cope with so much over the previous seven days. But while it wasn’t a classic
TIM Ream wants Bolton to continue paying their own tribute to Fabrice Muamba by sealing a return to Wembley tomorrow night. Bolton fed off an emotionally-charged atmosphere at the Reebok Stadium on Saturday to claim a 2-1 victory over Blackburn that
