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  • Bolton takes part in Midnight Memories for Bolton Hospice

    THE town centre was alight with the flash of pink bunny ears last night as thousands of women and, for the first time, men, joined forces to raise money for Bolton Hospice. The 12 chimes on the Bolton Town Hall clock marked the start of the Midnight

  • Crimestoppers line leads to 652 arrests

    STATISTICS from Crimestoppers show that almost 5,000 pieces of information were passed to police in Greater Manchester from April 2011 to March this year. It led to 652 people being arrested and charged with crimes — a rise of 17 per cent.

  • 15 jobs axed in shock closure of card shop

    FIFTEEN workers lost their jobs yesterday when the Birthdays card shop at Middlebrook was closed — following a surprise decision by the Clintons chain. The shop survived two previous rounds of Birthdays and Clintons branch closures in May