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  • Seven-up Phoenix draw Bees' sting

    Manchester Phoenix 7 Bracknell Bees 0 Manchester Phoenix comprehensively beat a short-benched Bracknell Bees at the Dome with a powerful attacking performance. Phoenix were keen to get back to winning ways after a 4-2 defeat away at Swindon

  • Families flocking to winter wonderland

    A CHRISTMAS theme park has opened its doors, complete with family rides, Sooty, Sweep, Soo and a festive circus. The UK’s largest indoor Christmas theme park — Winter Wonderland Manchester — welcomed its first visitors on Saturday and will run until Sunday

  • Police ready to tackle busy Christmas period

    DECEMBER Is a very busy month for most people as the Christmas festivities get underway, and for police in Bolton it is no different. The Neighbourhood Policing Teams at Bolton focus their activity on keeping people safe during the build up to

  • 84 new jobs at Westhoughton distribution centre

    OAKWOOD Distribution has announced the creation of eighty-four new jobs at its distribution centre in Westhoughton.Bosses say the vacancies must be filled by April 2015.Oakwood Distribution, a subsidiary of Tesco Holdings plc, was set up in September

  • Community spirit inspires charity calendars

    WHEN it comes to thriving local communities and villages that are held dear by their residents you do not get much more thriving than Little Lever.Folk in this vibrant little village are fiercely proud of their heritage and proud to be not only part of

  • Society’s aim is to help you find your lost family history

    CHRISTMAS is a time for family and sharing stories.So what better time of the year to start your family tree says Bolton and District Family History Society.According to Jane Milne from Bolton and District Family History Society Christmas can be seen

  • Home has some old snaps for new owner

    By Gayle McBainWHEN a Looking Back reader spotted these photographs in the attic of her new home she wanted to know more.But it was not just photographs she discovered and letters and documents helped her discover information about the previous owner,

  • Memories of treats at former ice cream parlour

    WHEN Stuart Manning saw our recent photograph of Market Street it brought back happy memories, he says, of weekend treats at Tognarellis ice cream parlour.Stuart, aged 65, who lives in Smithills , said that an added excitement was that you had to use

  • Can you shed light on mystery photograph discovery?

    WHEN a Looking Back reader spotted these photographs in the attic of her new home she wanted to know more.But it was not just photographs she discovered and letters and documents helped her discover information about the previous owner, John Wardle who

  • The sadness of war for family with links to television stars

    LAST week we featured a Bolton family with links to celebrities Johnny and Zoe Ball.William Henry Wright was the brother-in-law of television presenter Johnny Ball's father, Dan and it is the Wright family we have been looking at here at Looking Back.Thanks

  • Shoppers take to the town centre to seek out mini skirts

    THERE was a time when shops in Bolton town centre would not need shutters and proved hugely popular to local folk doing a bit of "window shopping" in the evening.A reader who sent in her memories can recall many of the fashion shops and although

  • Then and now

    THIS atmospheric old photograph was taken in 1949 so just four years after the end of World War Two.We feel it is particularly poignant as it appears to show a long lost view of Bolton — that of mill chimneys gracing the skyline and homes boasting chimneys.In

  • Amir Khan expresses sadness at school massacre

    BOXER Amir Khan has spoken of his sadness at the loss of more than 100 young lives in the Peshawar school massacre. Amir was at Bolton School speaking about education — the day after the Pakistani Taliban attack at the Army Public School in the

  • Police ready for Mad Friday descent on Bolton town centre

    THOUSANDS of revellers will descend on Bolton town centre for Mad Friday — and police say they are ready.The busiest night of the year for clubs and bars will see scores of police officers deployed. Boltonians celebrating breaking up from work for Christmas

  • We are trapped by serfdom and lacky-ism

    AN excellent letter from Andrew Davidson, December 15. All good points particularly when Andrew reminds us that you can't spend what you don't have. Can I respectfully develop: UK plc is at fault allowing this situation to happen both at government level

  • Bolton at Home needs a better system

    I READ with interest your article and comments posted by your readers, regarding the so-called Christmas cards sent by Bolton At Home reminding tenants of their rent arrears.Firstly, I found some of their comments very insulting. Furthermore why do so

  • VIDEO: Little Lever charity box thief caught on CCTV

    CCTV cameras have caught the moment a thief smashed his way into a DIY store before stealing six charity boxes from the counter. The raider broke into the Village DIY store in Church Street, Little Lever, in the early hours of Saturday morning

  • University objects to plans for new student accommodation

    NEW student accommodation looks set to be built on derelict land in the centre of Bolton — despite objections from the University of Bolton. Developers will be told today whether they have permission to build a seven-storey building on empty wasteland

  • We must welcome refugees and asylum seekers

    I HAVE been saddened and disappointed to see letters arguing against immigrants, especially refugees and asylum seekers.It is all too easy to blame such people for the difficulties caused by many complex factors across the world.We were incomers to Bolton

  • Children put on nativity play - in a supermarket

    CHILDREN brought smiles to the faces of Christmas shoppers when they put on their school nativity play — in a supermarket.Youngsters from Bolton's SS Peter and Paul RC Primary School sang classic and modern Christmas carols and acted out the story of

  • Divers honour London Olympics with underwater fun

    FIFTY divers took the plunge to pay homage to the 2012 London Olympics.Members of the Bolton Area Divers group and their families took part in an underwater Olympics themed scuba-dive at the Capernwray Dive Centre near Lancaster.The group, which celebrated

  • Rats leaving a sinking ship?

    NOVEMBER 2014, Bolton Council Chief Executive, Sean Harriss produced a report recommending cuts of up to £43m over the next two years with the loss of 500 jobs. Just four weeks later Mr Harriss announces he is to leave Bolton for the London Borough of

  • Council needs to use money wisely for recruitment

    Re the announcement that Bolton Council Chief Executive Sean Harriss is to move to Lambeth Council in London. Mr Harriss has been Chief Executive for less than eight years, he doesn’t live in the town and it appears he has used the position as a stepping

  • Ambulance wait was unacceptable

    RE the accident on Monday, December 15 at the crossing between Thynne St and Newport St in which a pedestrian was knocked down and received head injuries. I passed the incident about 9 30am and again at 9 50am.The accident as reported in The Bolton News

  • Is the worst over for Wanderers after FFP success?

    FINANCIAL Fair Play has been an elephant in the room for Wanderers since the phrase first passed into football’s lexicon a few years ago. A club effectively bankrolled by one man – Eddie Davies – for more than a decade was suddenly looking towards

  • Bolton's 4 most wanted - December 17, 2014

    EACH week police ask for help from readers of The Bolton News to find their most wanted suspects. Shaughan Boardman, aged 26, is still wanted for a robbery in Egerton on September 8, in which a young family was threatened. Police said he has links