A CAR crash in Breightmet left three people injured - including a small child, police said. As reported in The Bolton News yesterday, the crash happened in Arnside Grove, near Deepdale Road, at 6.15pm. The fire service cut out a woman and a
FIREFIGHTERS used an unmanned drone to tackle a blaze involving explosive gas cylinders. This picture — of the potentially explosive incident in Blackrod today — was captured using the “air imagery unit” which beams live images of fires to crews
A TEENAGER has denied assaulting a woman. Sye Watson, aged 19, pleaded not guilty to causing Becky Mather actual bodily harm on December 27 last year. Watson, of Oswald Street, Deane, will stand trial at Bolton Crown Court on August 12. The
BURGLARS raided a Tonge Moor house over the weekend, stealing cash and electrical goods. The thieves forced open a front window at a house in Tinsley Grove before taking an iPod, iPad, games console, a laptop, jewellery and cash before leaving
THE Lancashire Wildlife Trust is staging Nature Tots events every other day in two different Bolton locations. On Wednesdays, youngsters aged 15 months to five years can visit the Environmental Resource Centre, in Bury Road, Breightmet, where the
FAMILY fun sessions will be held at Smithills Hall on three upcoming bank holiday Mondays. Craft activities and trails will be held between 12pm and 4pm on Monday April, 21, May 5 and 26. The sessions are free and are for four to 11-year-olds
A PROJECT aimed at promoting integration has organised a special Africa Day at Bolton College, in Deane Road, next Tuesday. The Smile of Hope event, from 11am to 4pm, is part of a drive to increase awareness of cultural diversity. Everyone
FIREFIGHTERS were called after a wheelie bin was set on fire. Crews from Horwich were called to the back of Gooch Street just after midnight yesterday where a beige bin was on fire. Police are investigating the incident.
WALKERS are being invited to join Bolton Ramblers group and explore the spectacular countryside which surrounds the town. The group will meet at Horwich Leisure Centre off Victoria Road on Thursday at 10.30am for a walk which will cover three or
A CRAFT and food fair takes place in Bromley Cross on Saturday, April 26. The event, which runs each month at the village hall, runs from 10am to 3pm and will include 20 stalls. Paintings, drawing, cupcakes, home-made chocolates, cards, framed
HASLAM Park in Wigan Road is holding a free Mud to Muscle session on Thursday where people can practise a variety of conservation tasks in the green spaces of Bolton. All equipment will be provided to participants in the session which starts at
A SWORD and expensive electrical items were taken during a burglary at a Horwich house over the weekend. Thieves forced a door at a house in Abernethy Street, taking two laptops, two games consoles, two TVs, two mobile phones, a TV stand and a
PUPILS at Sharples Primary School will be singing all the way to a Christmas pantomime thanks to an Easter Bingo fundraiser. Teachers and children held a non-uniform day on Friday followed by Easter Bingo to boost cash for their trip to see Cinderella
A DROP-in service is being held for Breightmet residents to gain advice and information about housing. The weekly drop in sessions take place at the UCAN centre, in New Lane, every Wednesday morning from 10am until 12pm. For more information
KEARSLEY Academy in Springfield Road is holding a Superstars sports club for children during the Easter holidays. The club is offering a number of different activities including multi sports, dance and football, until Friday April 25. For more
BOLTON Library is showing the family film Night at the Museum 2 on Saturday, May 10. Every second Saturday of the month the library showcases a different film for free. Before the film starts, children are also able to make their own 3D masks
A CAR boot sale will take place at The Barlow, in Bolton Road, Edgworth, on Saturday, May 18. People can secure a space for £8 or pay £10 if they turn up on the day. Call 01204 852032.
WORK by Electricity North West in Lower Bridgeman Street is set to be completed today Bolton Council said. The work to repair faulty cables started on Tuesday, April 8. Lane closures were in place while the work was carried out.
WORK starts today on fixing potholes in Tottington Road. The work is scheduled to take just over one week and temporary traffic lights will be in place.
A BOLTON business owner is trying to locate a family who left a memory card filled with pictures in his shop. John Fallon, owner of the Guitar Shack in the square next to the Octagon Theatre found the 2GB memory card in his shop after a couple
MOTORISTS could be delayed when work is carried out in a major Bolton road. National Grid will begin a scheme to fit a new gas main in Beaumont Road on Thursday April 24. One lane will be closed until May 8.
THE story and music of American singer-songwriter Etta James will be played out in Bromley Cross on Friday night. At Last: The Etta James Story, starring New Zealand's queen of the blues Makuini, will be at The Railway Venue, Chapeltown Road.
PARENTS are being encouraged to bring their youngsters to a new playgroup session in Great Lever. The group meets every Thursday at the Slaterfield Community Centre in Carrington Drive between 1pm and 2.30pm. Admission is £2 for one adult with
A CHARITY table tennis competition will be held in Bolton tomorrow. The event will be at Market Place Shopping Centre with Commonwealth Games silver medalist Andrew Rushton and Lofty the Lion making appearances between noon and 6pm. People
THE first stretch of “smart motorway” has opened under a new scheme which will eventually be rolled out to the M62. An eight-mile section of the M25 in Hertfordshire is now using latest technology and the hard shoulder as a permanent running lane
Electricity North West is warning youngsters to stay safe this Easter holiday by keeping away from power lines. The firm is urging parents and children to heed the warning signs and avoid electricity substations and overhead power lines. Vincent
POLICE cadets will take part in a passing out parade in Bolton town centre today. A ceremony will be held from 2pm for the cadets who have undergone months of training. Chief Constable Sir Peter Fahy will attend along with Tony Lloyd, police
A WALKING club will host a number of outings next week. On Wednesday, April 23, people can join Bolton HF Walking Club on the 11-mile Downham/Pendle walk which will meet at Downham village car park, nearest postcode BB7 4BN, at 10.30am. Three
YOUNGSTERS are invited along with their teddy bears to a special Easter event taking place at Harwood Library on Thursday. The event is suitable for children aged up to five years and takes place between 2pm and 3pm at the library in Gate Fold.
A BOLTON theatre is appealing for volunteers to help at a summer festival. The Octagon Theatre and Bolton Council are organising a youth-led arts festival to take place in Queens Park on Sunday, August 17. The free family festival will present
BUDDING wordsmiths are invited to a creative writing workshop in Horwich. Writers of all styles and levels of experience are welcome. The group will next meet on Thursday between 10am and 12pm at the Arts Studios in Hampson Street, off Lee
HARMONY Youth Centre in Halliwell is offering its facilities on Thursdays and Friday nights. Teenagers are invited to the Wordsworth Street facility where they can use the recording studio, participate in DJ workshops and access music production
FAMILIES are invited to an easter fun day at Tonge Cricket Club. The event will be held on Sunday from 1pm until 5pm and will include an easter egg hunt, a raffle and many other activities. Everyone is invited to the fun day at the club in
HORWICH residents can get fit and have fun at a zumba class. The easy to follow fitness class will next meet on Wednesday from noon until 1pm at the Horwich Resource Centre in Beaumont Road. For more information contact Tracy on 07825 988542
REAL Radio in the North West will relaunch as Heart next month. The UK’s biggest commercial radio brand will launch in the region at 6am on Tuesday, May 6. Joel Ross and Lorna Bancroft will wake up listeners in Bolton with their new Heart Breakfast
FIREFIGHTERS were called out after a chip pan caught fire in Leigh. Crews were called to a house in Hope Street at about 10pm after a pan had been left on while the residents of the property were bathing a baby. A male resident was able to
STAMP enthusiasts are invited to a meeting of the Bolton Philatelic Society. The meeting will take place on Thursday at St Andrew and St George’s Church Hall in St George’s Road, Bolton. The theme of the meeting will be Great Britain Express
A FORUM giving Leigh and Atherton residents and businesses a chance to have their say on transport and housing plans is being relaunched. The Wigan Local Access Forum has been redesigned to help residents influence decisions about future access
MOTORISTS may be disrupted when BT install new cables in a Farnworth road. Temporary traffic lights will be installed overnight in Bolton Road tomorrow as contractors carry out the work. The project should be completed by the following morning
RESIDENTS are being urged to ignore letters claiming they are entitled to a council tax refund. A number of people in Atherton have been contacted by a firm stating they are owed a council tax refund because the property is in the wrong council
READING the “humanistic perspective” in the letter of April 8 “Religious bigots make me fed up” from Anon, made me wonder how it might sound if it had been directed against gays or humanists instead of religious people. Here is how the first paragraph
IN reference to Councillor Burrows’ reply to the letter “How the town has been dismantled”. My wife and I have lived in Kearsley for more than 50 years and, while accepting the councillor’s comments, I feel that Mr Colley was right in a lot of
THE recent Bolton News’ headline: “Vintage clothing boutique to open in Bolton” was possibly a little over the top considering it’s basically a second-hand clothes shop selling people’s unwanted clothes. But I do hope they succeed. For Bolton
I WOULD like to assure Chris Chilton of Bolton Against the Bedroom Tax that the British National Party’s opposition to the “bedroom tax”, is based not upon ‘political opportunism’ as he suggests, but from a long held opposition to much of the so-called
A HEALTH and safety company that started life in the corner of a Bolton bedroom 10 years ago is celebrating its anniversary by expanding its business. Sue Scott created Comply at Work, helping start-up companies to be compliant with health and
TINY tots will be strutting their stuff on the catwalk to raise money for a children’s charity on Wednesday night. Meadow Hill Education and Arts Nursery in Lostock is staging a fashion show at Bolton School Arts Centre from 7pm to 9pm with all
THE Bolton Wanderers Supporters Association will be holding their Player of the Year awards on Tuesday, April 29. The winner and runner-up are due to appear at the Reebok Stadium’s Wanderers Suite from 7.30pm. Non-members can join on the night
HEALTH bosses in Bolton have said that their number one priority is to improve patient access to doctors — despite missing out on a share of the government's £50 million handout. Prime minister David Cameron announced yesterday that more than 7.5
YOUNG archaeologists dug deep to reveal and share the secrets of the prehistoric age. Since the beginning of term, children have been busy unearthing facts about when dinosaurs roamed the earth. And the bright young things presented their exciting
BUSINESS bosses are celebrating two multi-million pound investments in Bolton. Missile company MBDA and personal injury solicitors Asons have now both received permission from councillors to kick-start work on ambitious new headquarters, as reported
WOULD-be horse rustlers failed in a bid to steal two ponies — after cutting a metal fence around a Blackrod field. The alarm was raised by a resident who discovered the Welsh ponies, Ellie and Pip, on a public footpath in Blackrod. Owner Andrea
WINNING the quickstep award at Bolton Hospice’s Strictly Learn to Dance proved to be a poignant moment for Tony Patten and Frieda Armstrong. Both have special reasons to give something back to the hospice after their partners were cared for at
YOUNGSTERS were transformed into police officers for a morning as they took front seat in a police car and learned about how to stay safe. PCSOs John Nicholson and Nafisa Chhoangalia along with Pippa the panda, GMP’s mascot, spent the morning at
A 20-YEAR-OLD dad has been told to stay off cannabis for the sake of his sick father and young son. Jake Ramsden was found to have six snap bags of cannabis when police raided his home in St Clare Terrace, Lostock, on March 21 last year. Craig
YOUNGSTERS and teachers now have access to life-saving equipment at Egerton Primary School. Joan Caswell — who is married to Bolton lottery winner Brian Caswell — donated a defibrillator to school where her granddaughter Holly is a pupil. Mrs
A SOCIAL club worker who reported a bogus burglary to the police has avoided jail. Thomas Sorby, aged 24, called police raising alarm about a burglary at Kearsley Social Club on June 28 last year, Bolton Crown Court heard. David Toal, prosecuting
BARRISTERS, court officials and defendants alike were evacuated from Bolton Crown Court this morning after a fire alarm. The alarm went off at about 9.30am after a heating panel in the building had overheated. Dozens of people were forced to
A TEENAGE beauty queen from Farnworth has launched the search for the face of a Bolton shopping centre. The hunt is on for two determined, passionate and proud people to help boost the profile and breathe life into Market Place Shopping Centre,
THE Royal Bolton Hospital is bidding farewell to one of its longest-serving neonatal nurses. Margaret Watt has been nursing tiny babies in Bolton for more than 35 years and has witnessed first hand the leaps in neonatal technology since she was
RESIDENTS of a quiet Bolton backwater claim the drawn-out negotiations over the sale of a partially closed bridge to Smithills Open Farm are putting lives at risk. Milk wagons, buses carrying visiting schoolchildren and visitors in cars are being
DOG owners are being warned about an outbreak of a mystery illness affecting pets following suspected cases of deadly Alabama Rot. Several unconfirmed cases of the condition with similar symptoms have been reported by people who walk their dogs
A STROKE survivor from Bolton who appeared on Countdown was pipped to the post to win the show despite taking an early lead and finding a nine-letter word. Trevor Grundy, aged 61, had a stroke in 2009, but this did not stop him from taking part
A NEW facility for disabled adults is set to open in the former Tonge Moor Labour Club. About £2 million has been spent on transforming the old social club into a specialist day centre for adults with autism and a day centre for adults with learning
IT was a special day for one of Bolton’s oldest residents when she celebrated her 102nd birthday. Great-grandmother Doris Hodgkiss turned 102 on Sunday and marked the occasion with her family and friends at Greenlands Residential Home in Green
WITH a starring role in popular soap Emmerdale and a young daughter to care for, Sammy Winward knows the importance of keeping fit and healthy. Over the past 12 years, the former Turton High School pupil has been involved in a number of dramatic
BOLTON Metro swimmers won an amazing 108 medals (40 gold, 31 silver and 37 bronze) at their Easter Spring meet which attracted competitors from 31 clubs in the North West. This was the eighth gala since 2008 that Metro have hosted and it has now
STUART Holden has vowed to “get it right” as he battles back from injury to save his Wanderers career. The US international has endured three years of misery on the sidelines and is currently recovering from a second successive torn cruciate ligament
BILL Eaton gives a light-hearted insight into the life of a local referee. Today he talks about the history of the Bolton Referee’s Society and the role its members have played in the beautiful game WITH around 80 referees aged 18 and under and
DOUGIE Freedman will be casting the net far and wide this summer in search of bargains. The Wanderers boss has already identified a handful of targets and revealed he has been scouting for value in Australia, Norway and Switzerland. Some of
A GERMAN shepherd dog attacked an international power weightlifter and his girlfriend after its drunken walker could not control its lead, a court heard. David Myerscough, aged 55, was walking the dog, Max, when it attacked neighbours John Turner
CHUNG-YONG Lee’s international exertions have prevented him hitting the heights for Wanderers this season. That’s the view of Wanderers boss Dougie Freedman, who admits the Korean star has struggled with the physical exertions of the Championship
BOXING machines are being removed from bars and takeaways in Bolton — in a bid to reduce violence in the town centre. Police have approached businesses and asked them to voluntarily remove the machines. The boxing machines, which involve people
