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  • Ricketts craves sound of silence

    THE last time Sam Ricketts was involved in a survival scrap, he was serenaded by Phil Brown on the pitch after the final match. This time he hopes he will not be hearing Stoke City’s anthem, Delilah, after Sunday’s last game, as the sound of silence

  • Stoke's cash incentive to send Whites down

    STOKE City have £2.4million reasons for consigning Wanderers to the Championship this Sunday. That’s the amount Tony Pulis’s team stand to profit if they claim victory at the Britannia Stadium, matching their best-ever Premier League points tally and

  • Laugh-a-lot at Spamalot

    MONTY Python’s Spamalot will return to Manchester’s Opera House this month, following the huge success of the first national tour in 2010. Lovingly ripped off from the classic film comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Spamalot is a kind-of

  • Closure will be a disaster

    WHAT a disaster it will be if the health service bosses do close Lever Chambers walk-in health centre. If almost half of the 40,000 patients seen per year are referred elsewhere, then more than 20,000 patients have been helped in the community. Successive

  • Cheddar is cheesed off!

    I HAVE just been passed an article about another “village” being besieged by a proposed Tesco development. It is Cheddar, in the Mendips, with a population of 5,500. Like Little Lever, it already has a Tesco Express and another supermarket, plus the

  • Roads health and safety?

    AFTER his comments regarding health and safety, I thought Cllr Martyn Cox would have apologised by now. To his credit, he knowledgeably defends himself (Health and safety misery, April 16). Since he’s clearly an authority on the subject, and also on

  • Memories of Family Way

    I have been reading in The Bolton News (May 7) about the film being made of the Bill Naughton play “All In Good Time” and notice that no mention has been made of the fact that this is the second time this film has been filmed in Bolton. The original was

  • Shocked but uplifted by elderly voter

    I AM sure I was not the only reader who was shocked and upset at the report in The Bolton News last Saturday of the 99-year-old man who fell in the street, injured his head and had to wait 75 minutes for an ambulance. There was, however, a most uplifting

  • Online future looking bright for optician

    AN OPTICIAN has become Europe’s most-visited online eyewear site — with up to three million visitors a year. Vision Direct has an optician shop in Deansgate but also a website called Eyewearbrands.com, which specialises in branded glasses.

  • Whites fans are feeling pressure

    WATCHING Bolton Wanderers as they battle to avoid relegation is certainly stressful for fans at the moment. So supporters were offered free blood pressure and pulse checks before last weekend’s crunch match against West Bromwich Albion at the Reebok

  • Sir Ian tweets joy over Tate exhibition

    SIR Ian McKellen has spoken of his pleasure that The Tate gallery in London is to host an exhibition of works by LS Lowry. The former Bolton School pupil told his followers on the social networking website Twitter: “I'm sure all Lowry’s admirers will

  • Jobs threatened in Clinton Cards shops cash crisis

    JOBS could be under-threat at Bolton’s two Clinton Cards shops after it was ann- ounced the firm had gone into administration. There are 10 full and part-time staff at the two town centre shops in Market Street and the Market Place Shopping Centre.

  • All the fun of the fair for residents

    THE annual Bromley Cross Summer Fayre will be held tomorrow and is expected to raise more than £30,000 for local good causes. The free event, which will be held from 11am to 4pm at the Last Drop Village, will feature children’s rides, marching bands,

  • Staff demand apology over Tory’s ‘get a proper job’ slur

    A SENIOR government minister has been criticised by Bolton union bosses for saying Remploy workers could get “proper jobs” when their factory shuts down. The comments, reportedly made by work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith, have outraged Remploy

  • Swimmers will take part in a sponsored swim

    Nineteen swimmers will take part in a sponsored swim tomorrow at Radcliffe Pool And Fitness Centre in memory of a tragic teenager. They each aim to swim two miles — 128 lengths — and hope to raise hundreds of pounds for Epilepsy Bereaved.

  • Kath’s guesthouse bids to be best in England

    A GUESTHOUSE has been shortlisted for a prestigious national tourism award, thanks to its “stunning views and good old fashioned hospitality”. Meadowcroft Barn Bed and Breakfast in Bury Road, Edgworth, is in the running for the guest accommodation of

  • Boy, 13, shot in the face playing in field

    A 13-YEAR-OLD boy had to undergo a five-hour operation after being shot in the face with an air rifle. Jordan Winstanley has been left scarred and fears he will lose some expression in his face. He was playing with three friends on land known as Open

  • Developer is banking on flats for students

    AN old bank in the town centre is to be converted into luxury student digs. The former Lloyds TSB bank in Deansgate was pulled from auction last month after an 11th hour bid from developers matched the £200,000 asking price. The landmark building, opposite

  • Send the Queen your Jubilee message

    BROOKE Kearsley was one of the first — and youngest — to send a message to the Queen by delivering a form in our special postbox. The five-year-old Eagley Infants School pupil posted her Jubilee message to Her Majesty at the postbox in The Chinese Buffet

  • Scrap dealers sign up to fight metal theft

    SIX scrapyards in Bolton have signed up to new a new scheme to crack down on metal theft. Operation Tornado, spearheaded by the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), will aim to make it easier to trace sellers of stolen metal through an identification

  • Brave little Lucas gets the good news from doctors in US

    A BRAVE toddler who travelled to America for specialist cancer treatment has been given the all-clear. Little Lucas Thorpe is too young to understand what all the fuss is about, but his parents, Jodie Rothwell and Dale Thorpe, say they are overjoyed

  • Amir fans hit by fight k-o

    BOXING fans say they have lost hundreds of pounds after Amir Khan’s Las Vegas fight was called off. Hundreds of sports enthusiasts booked travel packages for Las Vegas to watch Khan face Lamont Peterson a week tomorrow. The bout has been cancelled because

  • 10,000 people expected at videogame show in October

    A new videogame show which mixes retro with brand new titles is set to take place in Manchester later this year. Play Expo 2012 is expected to attract 10,000 visitors over its two-day run in October. Organisers are hoping their blend

  • Tragedy of ex-police officer with debts

    A FORMER police officer hanged himself because he spiralled into debt after leaving his job with post-traumatic stress. Lester Haydock, who was described as a “devoted, happy family man”, left the police in 2008 following an incident in which a stab

  • College students denied free meals

    THOUSANDS of students in Bolton are missing out on free meals because they are studying in a college environment and not a school sixth form. The Association of Colleges’ ‘No Free Lunch?’ campaign highlights that 16 to 18-year-olds from disadvantaged

  • Wanderers’ annual service to focus on Nat’s statue

    THE latest plans for the Nat Lofthouse statue will be shared at the annual Bolton Wanderers service of remembrance at the Reebok Stadium later this month. The service will be held pitch-side on Wednesday, May 23, at 6.30pm and will be conducted by the

  • Hundreds go on strike over changes to pensions

    HUNDREDS of public sector workers walked out on strike in Bolton. About 400,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), Unite and the University and Colleges Union (UCU) took part nationally in the protest against government pension

  • 999 staff are under fire

    THE shocking extent of attacks on Bolton’s life-saving emergency services has been revealed in new figures obtained by The Bolton News. Yobs have physically or verbally attacked police, firefighters, paramedics and hospital staff more than 160 times

  • Eagles to pass test of nerve

    CHRIS Eagles admits the tension of Wanderers’ survival fight has got him rattled. With the relegation race now right down to the wire, the Whites winger will be heading to Stoke this Sunday knowing nothing else but a win will keep the Wanderers in the