POLICE have released images of three men they wish to speak to in connection with a burglary. Shortly before 11.45am on Sunday, April 22, police were called to reports of the incident in Eastgrove Avenue. Three men took a number of valuable
AUTHORITIES are being investigated after it was revealed they had been in contact with a family before it was torn apart when four children were murdered in an arson attack. Zak Bolland, aged 23, and David Worrall, aged 25, were both jailed for
RAIL users in Bolton have been hit by further disruptions after a section of platform collapsed at Kearsley station. A section of platform two at the station fell away overnight meaning that services travelling from Manchester Victoria to Bolton
COUNCILLORS were quick to reassure residents after travellers moved on to Leverhulme Park in Breightmet yesterday morning. Travellers with at least a dozen caravans plus vehicles drove on to parkland that backs on to Maryland Avenue.
AN author and illustrator will be returning to the pub where they met to host a special event and raise money for a children’s hospice. Matthew John Santley, from Great Lever, is the author of ‘Lost in the Crowd’. In this, his first novel, he travels
POLICE have arrested a fifth man after a shooting during a mass brawl in The Haulgh. Officers detained a 33-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder yesterday and he remains in custody for questioning. It is in connection with a shooting
A regional journalist for 32 years, Ian was Editor in Chief of The Bolton News until last month. Today is the first of a regular weekly columnTHERE are several things I realised when I stepped down as editor after 10 years.How lucky I was to be only the
BOLTON’S Great Moor Street Station was set to re-open — said the caption to this photograph taken in 1974 — in a cellar deep below Mawdsley Street.The miniature train set was built by Bolton Model Railway Club and here we see club members with the model.They
GOLBORNE are not the first team that comes to mind when the issue of Association promotion favourites arises.Even their own captain comes up with the names of other sides before mentioning his own.Not that Tom Pantak is ruling out any challenge coming
FIVE luxury homes will have to be torn down if planning chiefs refuse a developer’s latest application. Bolton Council’s planning committee will decide the fate of a controversial development at Grundy Fold Farm, on the outskirts of Horwich, when
A TODDLER who suffers from cerebral palsy has been given a big boost after a company installed a new stairlift at his nursery free of charge.Jelly Babies in Little Lever had planned a series of fundraisers for two-year-old Carter Lee but after inviting
TEACHERS and pupils came together to run the Great Manchester Run and raise thousands for charity.The group from St Joseph's RC High School in Horwich, which included the headteacher and support staff, competed in the 10K event on Sunday. The school
STAFF and customers celebrated as they threw open the doors of a new homeware store at Middlebrook Retail Park.Homesense Bolton launched its new unit at the Horwich centre to a crowd of shoppers yesterday morning.As well as carrying out the customary
DRIVERS will see the benefit of the £210 million smart motorway upgrade just in time for the busy bank-holiday weekend. At 6am this morning, a four-mile stretch of temporary narrow lanes on the M60 were removed to reveal wider ‘smart’ lanes.
JOE Riley will stride out at Wembley with a purpose on Sunday, looking to give Shrewsbury Town’s fairy-tale season the ending it deserves in the League One play-off final against Rotherham United. The culmination of a quite incredible campaign
