Final day to spend old £1 coins
SHOPPERS have only this weekend left before the old round pound rolls out of general circulation — with around half a billion coins still to be handed in.
SHOPPERS have only this weekend left before the old round pound rolls out of general circulation — with around half a billion coins still to be handed in.
BOLTON TUC is delighted that the Labour Council has seen sense and decided to to keep the Harvey Nursery open.
IF the recent National Identity Card programme had been fully implemented beyond 2010, a ‘government trial programme’ of ‘new voter ID measures’ (The Bolton News, October 11) would not be necessary now.
I READ with great concern a new report by Breast Cancer Now, "Good Enough? Breast Cancer in the UK", which highlights how much more needs to be done to save the lives of people with breast cancer.
THOUGH I think that the excellent Octagon Theatre deserves any awards it can get ('Octagon Staff Take Centre Stage' Bolton News, October 3), it really should be careful what awards it accepts.
APPLE has released a new set of emojis - which include gender-neutral faces and an orange heart - as part of the technology giant's latest software update.
IT has been my privilege to have known Joan Egerton for many years. "
I WAS born at Bottom’o’th' moor 75 yrs ago but now a Hindleyite for 53 years, I still know the area fairly well..
HOW long do we have to wait before First Bus gets its act together and gets the 501 service back to normal?
PEOPLE will have heard a great deal in the news recently about the public sector pay cap. We are now ten years after the global financial crisis and have lived through seven years of government driven austerity policies. Despite this, public sector workers and all those who rely on public services continue to pay the price through cuts to jobs and services. Public service workers have suffered a seven year pay freeze. Public sector workers have seen the value of their pay fall behind the cost of living by an average of £3,875 since 2010. If the pay cap continues then this pay gap will grow by another £2,200.
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