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Blooming good show?

3:20pm Tuesday 18th June 2013

WHILST driving around the Astley Bridge and Bromley Cross areas I was pleasantly surprised to see large numbers (about 40 in each area) of recently installed rail-planters containing colourful displays of summer flowers.

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Spend, spend, spend on school

3:21pm Tuesday 18th June 2013

THE recent letter that endorsed anything and everything that Birtenshaw School in Bromley Cross decides to do in its own interests ignored the basic points being made.

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Brit-bashing must stop

3:20pm Tuesday 18th June 2013

JOHN Bercow, the Speaker of the House of Commons is yet another who has used his high profile position to undermine the British worker.

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EU monster costs £11bn

3:18pm Tuesday 18th June 2013

I read Saturday’s letters, and must contradict Name and Address Supplied with regard to the EU.

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Bins backing for Georgia

3:18pm Tuesday 18th June 2013

I FULLY support the Coronation Street actress, Georgia May Foote, who is campaigning for the return of weekly bin collections in Bolton. And I think this new recycling is doomed to failure.

MBE is well deserved

3:19pm Tuesday 18th June 2013

CONGRATULATIONS to Elizabeth Tatman on being made an MBE.

It was a great hospice walk

3:17pm Tuesday 18th June 2013

ONCE again the Bolton Hospice Midnight Memories Walk proved a great success.

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Partnerships are healthier

3:17pm Tuesday 18th June 2013

I WISH to reply to Philip Hayworth’s letter of June 10 regarding homosexuality.

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Will anyone save Smithills School?

2:50pm Monday 10th June 2013

So Smithills Comprehensive School will be no more by September.

Law will make things worse

2:46pm Monday 10th June 2013

I SHOULD like to support what David Johnson said in Monday’s letters pages of June 3. I feel this ungodly legislation on same-sex marriages has been introduced by stealth and steam-rollered through the Parliamentary process without proper discussion of the subject.

Hospital care was the best

2:47pm Monday 10th June 2013

I AM writing in support of Mrs Stott about G5 ward at the Royal Bolton Hospital.

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‘Super market’ was my idea

2:46pm Monday 10th June 2013

PAUL Richardson says he has come up with a brilliant idea — to extend Bolton Market across Moor Lane bus station when the bus station is relocated. Sorry, Paul. I put this suggestion forward in two letters on these pages, one on January 13, 2011, and one on August 4, 2012.

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Sponsorship was just not worth it

3:20pm Friday 7th June 2013

IT is absolutely fantastic to hear the news that Bolton Wanderers Football Club has dropped its plans to use QuickQuid as sponsor to the club.

Charity starts at home . . .

3:19pm Friday 7th June 2013

I AGREE with Greenhalgh and Derbyshire in that we should change our foreign policy.

Greed is a common theme

3:20pm Friday 7th June 2013

IT started with Margaret Thatcher when we had City Yuppies.

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Attracting the youth

3:18pm Friday 7th June 2013

ANGELA Kelly lambasts the BBC for wasting our licence fees by scheduling 250 hours of TV coverage of the Glastonbury Festival, when the average BBC viewer, she suspects, is generally middle-aged, or older.

Thank you for listening

3:18pm Friday 7th June 2013

I write again following my letter last week to say thank you to those at Bolton Wanderers for listening and taking action on the issue of sponsorship. We really are the one and only wanderers!

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Great job on gardens

3:17pm Friday 7th June 2013

MAY I take this opportunity in thanking the two people at Smithills Hall for the wonderful work done on the gardens.

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Recycling vital to cut down costs

3:16pm Friday 7th June 2013

In response to the letter from name and address supplied, June 5, responding to the article on recycling in The Bolton News, May 31.

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Need special drink stores

3:15pm Friday 7th June 2013

DR Moriarty campaigns tirelessly to reduce health problems caused by alcohol and the campaign has certainly raised awareness of the problems in our town.

Shelters are waste of cash

3:10pm Friday 7th June 2013

I AGREE entirely with the comments made by Gary Bickerstaffe, the health improvement specialist at the hospital.

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Cloudy skies after planes

3:09pm Friday 7th June 2013

TUESDAY started off a beautiful sunny day, I sat in the garden to enjoy the weathers, and within minutes there were four planes up there spreading their chemical trails and making clouds where there was no sign before, criss-crossing around as if they were playing tic tac toe.

No ‘threat’ from same sex marriages

11:47am Thursday 6th June 2013

LORD Dannatt claims that the “Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill” goes against what he fought for as a soldier.

Market idea for old bus station

11:48am Thursday 6th June 2013

SEEING that it seems we are stuck with the new, overpriced bus station complete with showers for cyclists and easy access to a railway station that is having some major routes withdrawn, the question arises as to the future of Moor Lane bus station.

An ‘Oscar’ for Caroline’s Piaf

11:47am Thursday 6th June 2013

MY daughter-in-law and I went to the matinee performance of Piaf at The Octagon last Wednesday and we thought it was wonderful. The cast were, as usual, excellent but the Oscar definitely goes too Caroline Faber, who was wonderful as Edith Piaf.

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I can’t see the benefits of EU

1:14pm Wednesday 5th June 2013

IT is no surprise that local LibDem MEP Chris Davies pins his colours to the EU mast. He is on a good thing, so perhaps he can enlighten me as to what and where are all these wonderful benefits that we in the UK receive?

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She got the job at ‘daunting’ hotel

1:15pm Wednesday 5th June 2013

I AM writing after seeing the article in The Bolton News (“Teenage chefs aim for top hotel job,” May 15) about the Midland Hotel and the memories recalled for me.

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No QuickQuid shirt for me

1:13pm Wednesday 5th June 2013

IN September I will have supported Bolton Wanderers for 50 years.

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Peacekeeping is for big boys

1:14pm Wednesday 5th June 2013

M W Greenhaulgh is right to think that the “unsavoury hatred we are seeing on our streets” could have a lot to do with our foreign policy.

Drop this sponsorship

1:12pm Wednesday 5th June 2013

BOLTON Wanderers need to look around for a more suitable sponsor than a payday loan company.

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‘Fortnightly’ not a success

1:11pm Wednesday 5th June 2013

I NOTE that “bins chief” Cllr Nick Peel claimed in this newspaper recently that the new bin collection system (with the 50 per cent reduction in collection frequency for the general waste grey bins) has largely been a resounding success. I also imagine a single person household like his maybe can more easily meet the need to make a grey bin last two weeks. On our estate, there is many a grey bin full to the brim and with the lid forced vertical after less than one week. Increased recycling efforts will only go so far with a larger family. It is not necessarily the success Cllr Peel boldly claims.

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Recycling bins not emptied

1:11pm Wednesday 5th June 2013

HAS Bolton Council forgotten Stoneclough?

Education, not politics

1:10pm Wednesday 5th June 2013

RE, the debate over whether Smithills School should become an academy or not.

Big blunder on price rise

1:10pm Wednesday 5th June 2013

I AM writing to complain of the unwarranted rise in the price of The Bolton News.

First across the Atlantic

1:09pm Wednesday 5th June 2013

WHEN people go on holiday, abroad flying over the Atlantic, do they ever think it’s been less than 100 years since the first ever non stop Atlantic crossing by two Manchester men, Alcock and Brown, in an open cockpit Vickers Vimy converted bomber with Rolls Royce engines?

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End hell for greyhounds

9:08am Monday 3rd June 2013

GREYHOUND racing in Bolton could be a thing of the past if plans are approved to transform the borough’s track into 38 homes. (The Bolton News, May 25).

Memories of town’s mill life

9:09am Monday 3rd June 2013

REGARDING the Cotton Mills exhibition at Crompton Place.

Exaggerating jobs no good

9:07am Monday 3rd June 2013

THE Bolton News story about Cutacre gets very excited about “creation” of 400 jobs when the Aldi distribution centre opens, and that is good news for Bolton.

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Bring back the Matron

9:08am Monday 3rd June 2013

AFTER reading your article in the Bolton News, May 29, I have to say that the report seems to have missed the basic and most simple tenet of hospital care, namely regular and continued personal hygiene.

It may be too late for us all

9:06am Monday 3rd June 2013

I really cannot let Mr Carter’s letter of May 27, pass without comment. He implies that no one is really opposed to the same-sex marriage bill except a small minority of prejudiced people.

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Parents must pick schools

9:07am Monday 3rd June 2013

“WHY can’t we have Corporations instead of competition” stated a former NUT representative in a recent letter regarding Smithills School’s desire to become an academy.

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Not first class value

9:05am Monday 3rd June 2013

TODAY I went to the post office to send a birthday card to a friend.

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Park ‘pie in the sky?’

9:06am Monday 3rd June 2013

I just wonder whether the much trumpeted Cutacre Business/Industrial Park will follow the pattern set by Wigan Council’s Gadbury site located in Atherton and established some time ago.

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Club must have better options

9:46am Friday 31st May 2013

BOLTON Wanderers football club up to now has been a family and community-orientated club, with generations of friends and families attending their weekly matches.

Fans treated with same lack of respect as Kevin Davies

9:49am Friday 31st May 2013

WHAT are the board of directors, Eddie Davies and Phil Gartside thinking in sanctioning a loan company in being the new sponsor on football shirts and other merchandise?

Angered by blood money

9:45am Friday 31st May 2013

I WRITE to vent my anger, disappointment, opposition and utter disgust at the decision taken by BWFC to welcome Quick Quid as the new club sponsors for the next two seasons.

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Smacks of desperation

9:46am Friday 31st May 2013

WHAT a disgusting and irresponsible move by Bolton Wanderers to have Quick Quid logo on the shirts. How desperate is this club these days? Totally out of touch and insensitive. Of all the companies in Bolton and Wanderers has to go with Quick Quid.

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Bosses need brains testing

9:44am Friday 31st May 2013

Oh my, what are Bolton Wanderers up to aligning themselves with a sponsor such as this?

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A show of ignorance

9:45am Friday 31st May 2013

I WRITE following the announcement about the new main sponsor for OUR football club.

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Tributes to a man who had a deep passion for local history

9:56am Thursday 23rd May 2013

READING as depressingly frequently as we do about what might be lacking and less than wholesome about Bolton and district these days, it is important to try and keep a balanced perspective, as one does not need to look far to experience the other side of the coin, and find passion and positivity in abundance.

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