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  • It's Panthers v Devils after Nottingham rout Hull

    ELITE LEAGUE ICE HOCKEY:Elite League Playoffs second semi finalNottingham Panthers 10 Hull Stingrays 3The playoff dream turned into a nightmare for Hull Stingrays, after they were on the receiving end of a comprehensive thrashing by Nottingham Panthers.Nottigham

  • FULL TIME - Wanderers 0 Fulham 3

    WANDERERS' recent upturn in form came to an abrupt halt against Fulham. Three straight wins had seen the club lift themselves out of the bottom three – but they seldom looked anything like the side of recent weeks. Clint Dempsey struck twice for the

  • Devils claim place in final

    ELITE LEAGUE ICE HOCKEY:First semi-finalBelfast Giants 3 Cardiff Devils 4 (after overtime and penalties).Cardiff Devils booked a place in their third consecutive Elite League Playoff Fiinal after a thrilling penalty shootout win against Belfast Giants.In

  • TEAM NEWS - Wanderers v Fulham

    DARREN Pratley replaces Ivan Klasnic for this afternoon's crunch home clash with Fulham. The midfielder, missing in last week's 3-2 win at Wolves with a gashed leg, moves into the team at the Croatia international striker's expsense, as Owen Coyle reverts

  • Thousands of wheelie bins destroyed in fire

    ARSONISTS have destroyed thousands of brand new wheelie bins. Firefighters were called to Linstock Way Industrial Park, off Wigan Road, in Atherton, just after 1am this morning. A nearby resident had called 999 to report a large fire in the yard of

  • Playoff fever reaches a crescendo

    ELITE LEAGUE ICE HOCKEY: The Elite League will draw to a close this weekend, as the Nottingham Panthers, Hull Stingrays, Cardiff Devils and Belfast Giants fight for the final piece of silverware - the Playoffs.In the first semi final, the current Elite

  • Phoenix Aim For Final Four

    EPL ICE HOCKEY; MANCHESTER Phoenix start their bid for English Premier League Playoff glory when they take on Swindon Wildcats this weekend. Their quarter final tie sees them look to gain the upper hand in Wiltshire on Saturday (5.45pm) before the

  • Coyle's experience key to Whites survival - Todd

    COLIN Todd believes Owen Coyle’s experience of guiding Wanderers away from the drop will be key to saving the club again this season. The former Whites chief has backed his old side to stay up at the expense of Wolves, Blackburn Rovers and QPR. Coyle

  • Ricketts reveals how Whites pulled together

    SAM Ricketts has revealed for the first time how the Wanderers squad requested heart scans less than 48 hours after watching team-mate Fabrice Muamba go into cardiac arrest on the pitch. With Muamba fighting for his life at the London Chest Hospital,

  • Eating out is depressing

    I SYMPATHISE greatly with S Radcliffe (April 2) and his problems with dining out, as I am also a coeliac. But perhaps he could imagine what visiting restaurants and cafes is like for someone who is coeliac, vegetarian, and diabetic, like myself ! At

  • Warm words don’t help

    GAS and electricity bills are going up and up. Further big rises are likely. The energy companies are making huge profits, while the rest of us are being hit hard. It’s not just the elderly who are scared of lighting their fires or having a hot bath.

  • Councillors not equipped to run town

    THE excellent letter from M Kozlowski (March 10) explains what is wrong with local councils and why our town is in such a mess. Apart from those who have retired, our councillors have either lost their jobs, have little work experience or have never

  • Health and safety is a matter of life or death

    IN response to Cllr Cox’s question, I am absolutely not joking — it is vital that every person reading this contacts their MP to ask them to make workplace health and safety a priority on the political agenda. Cllr Cox seeks to belittle the deaths of

  • Laughable survey

    THE main headline in Monday’s paper about the roads being repaired after being surveyed by the engineering department is a bit of a laugh. I would like to know how can you do a survey sitting in a van which was parked outside my house with people in

  • Blind people could lose out

    ALL blind and partially-sighted people should be extremely concerned at the Government’s proposals on the assessment criteria and thresholds for receiving Personal Independence Payment (PIP), the allowance which will replace Disability Living Allowance

  • Please tell me why our young men have to die

    WHY oh why is my tax (low though it may be) being used to send our young men to a country that keeps killing them? I did not agree to this and would like to speak to the people who have agreed to it. The “people in charge” are very good at deciding what

  • Live and let live should be motto

    MR Peter Johnston tells us (The Bolton News, March 31) that he has had two major associations with women. I have only had one — 60 years married this year — so what? I don’t care if he is heterosexual or homosexual, I will treat him with the same respect

  • Cotton town was a great place for us

    MATTHEW Pendlebury, aged 19, when asked by Word on the Street (March 19), what could be done to make Bolton a better place, said: “There’s too much industry here and not enough for students to do. There needs to be more pubs and clubs.” Matthew should

  • Workplace – the true figures

    HOW ironic that Cllr Martyn Cox’s letter (March 29), in which he makes light of workplace Health and Safety issues, should appear a few days before The Bolton News revealed that a cleaning company had been fined £175,000 after a hospital porter was killed

  • Car parking fee shock

    JUST got home to find a demand for £50 from “CP Plus”, claiming I over stayed a two hour parking limit on Hilton Park services, when taking a nap whilst driving home via Birmingham. This is a private parking operator, so how did they get my details.

  • Wonderful husband saved many lives

    THE family of a brave fire- fighter who died on holiday have paid tribute to him fol- lowing an inquest into his death. Geoffrey Bowes, aged 76, of Dewhurst Road, Harwood, died while swimming in the sea in Turkey last September. He was in Izmir with

  • Ex-Whites star Gary set to spend Easter with his family

    FORMER Bolton Wanderers ace Gary Parkinson — who has locked-in syndrome — will be spending Easter at home with his family. The 44-year-old suffered a massive stroke in September, 2010, when he was at home with his family. He is paralysed but is able

  • 5,000 families face tax credit bombshell: MP

    MORE than 5,000 families in Bolton are set to lose tax credits, according to local MP David Crausby, pictured. Families with children will lose an average of £511 a year because of changes to tax credits introduced this week. The analysis follows last

  • Prison for trackside gang who stole rails and fencing

    GANG of metal thieves has been jailed after stealing hundreds of thou- sands of pounds worth of equipment from the region’s railways. They stole £100,000- worth of railway fenc- ing from Kearsley, as well as carrying out thefts in Atherton,

  • Call for residents only to use 999 in a genuine emergency

    PEOPLE are being urged to think before they call 999 over the Easter weekend. The four-day break usually sees an increase in the number 999 and visits to A&E, as local GP practices are closed. Derek Cartwright, director for emergency services at North

  • Police appeal to trace pensioner’s family

    AN appeal has been launched to find the family of a pensioner whose body was discovered three weeks after he died at a sheltered housing complex in Bolton. Police are appealing for help in tracing the next of kin of Graham Morrisson. The 67-year-old was

  • Pav in fight to face Wanderers

    PAVEL Pogrebnyak is likely to patch himself up and face Wanderers at the Reebok this afternoon. The Russian striker – who has scored five goals in his first seven starts for Fulham – twisted his ankle in the 2-1 victory over Norwich City last weekend

  • Davies has big part to play in Whites run-in - Coyle

    OWEN Coyle believes Kevin Davies will seize a chance over the next eight crucial games to show he has a future at the Reebok. The club skipper has scored twice in his last two appearances to put himself into serious contention for a starting place against