BOLTON is plainly bristling with remarkable people who help the community in dozens of ways and usually with very little fuss.
So it was good to see 16 of the town’s most extraordinary females highlighted and honoured at the Inspirational Women Awards which took place at UTC Bolton last week.
They included Maura Jackson from Bolton Young Persons Housing Scheme, beauty queen Laura Collins, refugees’ campaigner Patricia Holmes, Girl Guides’ stalwart Susan Smart and counsellor and lay-preacher Karen Openshaw.
They all give selflessly to others and enrich so many lives that I felt proud just to know some of them.
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