COUNCILLOR Susan Haworth is somewhat late in coming to the table with her views on the plight of care workers who attend to the elderly in their own homes.Having said that, it is difficult to disagree with most of the points that she makes or indeed those
FRIENDS, family and former football stars packed into St Maxentius Church in Bradshaw for the funeral of Wanderers legend Roy Hartle, who died earlier this month at the age of 83. A host of former team-mates turned out to pay their respects to
LAST Saturday when I was shopping in Newport Street, someone stole my purse.Luckily it did not contain my band cards or much money. I hope the person concerned is ashamed but I doubt it. Nevertheless, we should always remember that there are still honest
THE girlfriend of a violent thug who murdered an 87-year-old war veteran in his own home has been cleared of helping him to evade police after the attack. Beverley Hardman was on trial, accused of assisting her partner Daniel Crompton, by taking
CHRIS Eagles could make a dramatic debut for Blackpool against Wanderers this weekend after earning a short-term deal at Bloomfield Road. The former Whites winger has earned a contract until January with the Seasiders after training with them for
WHILST driving around Bolton it now seems that at every traffic light junction each time the light moves from green to amber someone will continue without slowing and blatently go through the light when actually on red.This practice is obviously an offence
CHUNG-YONG Lee emerged unscathed from a tempestuous friendly game in Iran and should link-up with the Wanderers squad tomorrow. The South Korea international, who has been in fine form of late, was on the wrong end of a 1-0 score-line in Tehran
ONCE again we hear that Russia is the aggressor in the Ukraine when it is quite clear that EU expansionism led by Germany, who have all ways yearned to control the East and now has a right wing government in place. Who caused the so called uprising
AN investigation is underway into a serious car smash in Moss Bank Way. Police shut one carriageway of Moss Bank Way, between Halliwell Road and Captain's Clough Road, after a motorist lost control and veered off the carriageway. Emergency
SHE many only be a teenager but Johanna Mercer is already establishing herself as a popular author. The 16-year-old from Bickershaw Village, near Rivington, has had her second novel published — after winning rave reviews for her first book last
BOLTON-based cycling team, Team Chronomaster are workign hard in their winter training getting ready for the 2015 racing season. Winter training usually starts off with slow casual weekend rides to recover from the hard fought 2014 season. The pace slowly
SCHOOLGIRL Poppy Verhaege has certainly proved herself to be a cut above. For the eight-year-old, from Blackrod, has taken the difficult decision to donate her beautiful blond locks to a charity which helps children who have lost their own hair
YOUNG people looking to their future after school were motivated by by Apprentice star Adam Corbally to make the right choices.Kearsley Academy invited Mr Corbally, voted as the most popular contestant on the show fronted by Lord Alan Sugar, to share
BOLTON are smarting after a familiar foe returned to deal a bitter blow to their hopes of climbing into the mid-table comfort zone of the North One West.Eccles, promoted automatically as champions last season while the Cherry and Whites had to take the
IT certainly felt a lot like Christmas at the Middlebrook Retail and Leisure Park over the weekend when the festive lights switch on took place. Entertainer and Bolton favourite Stu Francis joined Bolton Wanderers legend John McGinlay, Father Christmas
MATTHEW Rimmer scored twice as Bolton's third team romped to an impressive derby victory at Bury 2nds in the North West League Division Five North/South.The game was also memorable for goalkeeper Chris Sharrock who kept his first clean in around 40 league
BOLTON residents are furious after the town was slated on an advert for a new ITV show. Lauren Simon, one of the cast members from The Real Housewives of Cheshire, which is soon to be broadcast on ITVBe, says in an advert for the show: "You don
WELL done to all the people who queued in the car park behind the Victoria Hall on Saturday night. You deserve a medal for your honesty and patience. Whoever manages the car park should be ashamed that people are trying to put their car numbers
A FURNITURE firm in Astley Bridge is set to open an on-site Italian bistro after receiving a cash boost of £80,000. Global Interiors, which operates on the site of the old Riley's snooker hall in Blackburn Road, is to expand its premises and install
YOUNG people have no reason not to stay fit and healthy after taking delivery of a new gym to their school — thanks to members at Bolton Arena. The gym was one of 176 fitness clubs in 10 countries taking part in the month-long “Let’s Move For A
A FIRM which supplies many of the largest companies in clinical research has celebrated its 25th anniversary.Horwich-based Woodley Equipment Company Ltd was founded by Mike Wickham, who previously managed Rivington Veterinary Laboratories.Hundreds of
A SCRUMDIDDLYUMPTIOUS world filled with good dreams, greedy giants and snozzcumbers is coming to Bolton next year. The curtain may have only just gone up on the Octagon Theatre's current festive production of Alice in Wonderland but it has been
HE is well known for his radio voice — but now Mark Radcliffe has taken on a more terrifying role playing a Tyrannosaurus Rex. The BBC 6 Music DJ, who attended Bolton School, will be voicing Manchester Museum's resident T-Rex, Stan, through a new
LEADERS in the East Sussex town of Crowborough have voted to remain twinned with Horwich — despite calls for the 25-year-old arrangement to be ended. A meeting of Crowborough’s Town Council last month saw arguments between elected members on whether
AFTER a successful first return concert earlier this month, Smithills Senior Brass Band is hoping to make it a double whammy this Saturday with its second of two special performances.The concerts follow on from the band's most successful American tour
DRAMA students will stage a powerful play exploring the impact of dementia on the patient and family in a groundbreaking project led by Bolton Dementia Support Group.The group has commissioned community arts organisation Well Arty to deliver the drama
BLACK pudding queen Debbie Pierce will share her recipe for success as she dishes out her secrets at Bolton Business School's latest networking event.She will be in Bolton tomorrow (Wednesday, November 19) when she will be in conversation with broadcaster
UNEMPLOYED young people who want to gain some qualifications and take part in different challenges are invited to enrol on a course which begins in January.The course will start on Friday January 26 and runs for 12 weeks at Bolton Central Fire Station
BOLTON Hospice is gearing up to host its annual Christmas fair.The fair, which is being held at the hospice on Saturday November 29, will feature an appearance from Santa, festive choirs, a brass band and various stalls.There will also be a range of refreshments
Police are advising motorists on how to stay safe this winter as part of Road Safety Week, is run by road safety charity Brake. Drivers being asked to protect pedestrians and cyclists by slowing down to 20mph in residential areas, looking twice, taking
A NEW bar selling artisan cider and award-winning perry will have a VIP opening in Bradley Fold this month.Red Bank Cider will be officially opened by the Mayor and Mayoress of Bury on Saturday, November 29 at Unit 22B Bradley Fold Road, by Dobbies Sports
PEOPLE are dying needlessly because they don’t know they have high blood pressure, health bosses say.Public Health England have released new figures showing more than 287,500 people in Greater Manchester are unaware they suffer from the problem, which
THE Conservative ‘obsession’ with fox hunting shows how disconnected they are, a Bolton MP has said.David Crausby, MP for Bolton North East, blasted the government after Tory MP and environment secretary Elizabeth Truss described the 2004 Hunting Act,
SANTA will pay a visit to the Wigan and Leigh carers centre at their Christmas fayre on Thursday, December 4.Entry is free for the event, which takes place in their base Frederick Street in Hindley, between 1.30pm and 5.30pm.
A NIGHTCLUB will find out on tomorrow whether it is allowed to keep its alcohol licence, after a man was stabbed with a broken bottle while inside. After Dark in Nelson Square has had restricted opening hours since police called for an emergency
HUNDREDS of people were left unable to hear a Remembrance Day service because vandals had tampered with the speakers. Cllr David Chadwick, leader of Westhoughton Town Council, looked into the issue after he received complaints from the public that
A FARNWORTH resident has been given the go-ahead to build a ground floor extension.The householder has received planning permission from Bolton Council to build the extension at the side of their house in Hawthorne Avenue.
YOUNGSTERS will be given a tour of Bolton Town Hall by the borough’s first citizen.The Mayor of Bolton Cllr Martin Donaghy will greet the 17TH Bolton Scout Group and show them around the historic Grade-II listed building on Thursday, November 20.
PLANNING officers are urging councillors to refuse plans to build a double extension on a Daubhill mid-terrace house.The Garfield Road resident wants to create a two-storey extension at the front and back of his property. At the October meeting of the
AN old nursery school could be turned into a martial arts centre and gym, if plans are approved.Councillors will vote on Thursday whether to let developers transform the St Germain Nursery School in Farnworth, creating four jobs.As well as changing the
PLANS for two new bedrooms and an extended kitchen in a Breightmet house have been given the green light.Susan Lally has received planning permission from Bolton Council to build a two-storey extension at the side of her property in Tetbury Drive.She
UKIP have hit back at former Prime Minister Sir John Major for suggesting the party is ‘profoundly un-British’.The Conservative appeared on the Andrew Marr Show on Britain to say the country should stay a member of a reformed European Union, including
AN expert on World War One history will give a talk about conscientious objectors tonight in Bolton town centre.Cyril Pearce from the University of Leeds will speak about his research into the men who refused to fight during the war, and reveal how responses
POLICE want to trace the family of a pensioner found dead at a house in Deane on Friday. 84-year-old Geoffrey Vickers was found at his home on November 14. There are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death and police now want to hear
I am concerned at the Council's proposal to reduce the size of our grey refuse bins in an attempt to bully us into recycling more. I live on a steep cul de sac. The gradient makes it unsafe for refuse wagons if there is any significant snowfall
A FIRE started in a house where cannabis plants were being grown. Firefighters were called to a terrace property in Bolton Road, Atherton, after the electrical equipment used to help the plants grow had started the fire. Neighbours had heard
Police are hunting a man who is wanted for domestic assault and breaching a civil injunction. 28-year-old Jonathan Proudman, from Tonge Moor, is wanted for assaulting his ex-partner at an address in Wigan, as well as breaching a civil injunction
DESIGNING and making a world-beating mountain bike was not rocket science for a couple of Bolton entrepreneurs – more like aircraft science.For it was dabbling in the material from which landing gear is made of that has given Chris Williams, managing
BOLTON TV cook Debbie Halls Evans is teaming up with the American winner of The Taste to create pop-up restaurants across the globe — including one in Bolton.The mum-of-four, who won the UK version of the Channel 4 cookery show, has just returned from
WHILE primary school children are being given compulsory lessons in foreign languages as part of the new curriculum introduced in September to ensure the UK can compete on the global stage — teachers in Bolton are encouraging pupils to carry on their
A RETIRED lorry driver bled to death at the Royal Bolton Hospital following a liver biopsy after doctors failed to warn him to stop taking medication which made the bleed worse. The hospital has apologised for "inadequacies" in the care they gave
GIANT snowmen will help kick-start the festive season in Bolton as they join in the Big Christmas Switch-On. The 8ft 6in figures are back for their 21st parade to entertain the crowds and help bring some festive cheer. The six snowmen made
GARY Cahill has all the attributes to be a future England captain. That's the view of his former Wanderers team-mate, and fellow Yorkshireman, Kevin Davies. Cahill won his 32nd cap as England maintained their 100 per cent winning start to the
A PROMISING soldier was killed instantly when his car smashed into a speed camera, an inquest heard. Witnesses said that a red Volkswagen Golf driven by 24-year-old Tony Emery, a soldier in the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, was travelling “almost
IN-form Wanderers forward Chung-Yong Lee is loving life working with new boss Neil Lennon and wants to keep repaying his faith with performances. The Korean national captain has been a standout performer since Lennon's arrival last month, scoring
A FOOTBALL club fears it is being targeted by someone with a "personal vendetta" after weed killer was sprayed onto its pitch. Five huge patches of scorched turf appeared last week on the pitch at Stoneclough AFC's home in Brook Street, Kearsley
A PRISONER has been cleared of hatching a plot to kill his wife from his cell. Andrew McGarry was found not guilty of arranging a £50,000 plan to have wife Heather and neighbour Andrea Leighton murdered while he was serving an eight-year sentence
SUPERMARKET giant Tesco have put 200 Bolton jobs in jeopardy after pulling out of a contract with a kitchen and bathroom firm. Mark Two, based on Bury Road, has engaged in a war of words with Tesco and faces closure, if the two companies do not
