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UKIP leader is no clown

11:49am Tuesday 14th May 2013

THE letter from Mr Dave Carter of Farnworth, (May 4), I totally agree with him and will go one better and vote for UKIP leader Nigel Farage, who has been called a “clown” by David Cameron.

Vaccination not culling

11:47am Tuesday 14th May 2013

PUBLIC opinion polls routinely show decisive opposition to the badger cull.

A special day out at the cinema

11:46am Tuesday 14th May 2013

MAY I, through your letters, page say a big thank you to the manager and staff of Cineworld for showing an autistic- friendly film.

It's time to start praising the hospital

11:45am Tuesday 14th May 2013

I'M fed up of people keep calling the Royal Bolton Hospital.

Free School lessons must be learned

11:44am Tuesday 14th May 2013

SO, Bolton is to have its first Free School, with the full support of the Labour Leader of Bolton Council, Cliff Morris, who claims that he is opposed in principle but wants to work with the school for the benefit of the children?

Necessities of life are food and clothes - not luxuries

11:42am Tuesday 14th May 2013

BEFORE church leaders go into hysterical meltdown about families having to use food banks to feed their children it is time to examine the facts.

Thanks to NHS team for help

11:47am Friday 10th May 2013

I AM writing to express my sincere thanks to the Bolton NHS team for all their help on Bank Holiday Monday.

‘Be afraid, be very afraid and let lame ducks go to the wall’

11:48am Friday 10th May 2013

MR Simon Topliss thinks the talk of violence and brutality against the miners was a fallacy?

Youthful looks can soon fade

11:47am Friday 10th May 2013

I WAS delighted to read Angela Kelly's article about Helen Flanagan being voted lads’ mag FHM sexiest British woman and the excellent advice she gave Helen.

Is there one rule for drivers?

11:45am Friday 10th May 2013

I USE Bolton bus station on a regular basis and I frequently have to walk around groups of bus drivers congregating outside the cafe.

Re-homing centres best

11:46am Friday 10th May 2013

SINCE animal charity FOUR PAWS was founded 25 years ago we have helped many thousands of animals all over the world.

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Need radical alternative

11:45am Friday 10th May 2013

IN reply to Cllr Cox’s tirade about the Green Party.

Fair taxes, a living wage and investment in green industries

4:14pm Thursday 9th May 2013

I MUST respond to Conservative Councillor Martyn Cox, and his latest tirade against the Green Party.

More ideas to generate more fines

4:13pm Thursday 9th May 2013

I PARKED at the back of the town hall and took my parking line from the vehicle next to me – in other words I left enough room for the driver to get in his vehicle easily.

Learning life skills is very important

4:10pm Thursday 9th May 2013

I HAVE always been an advocate of schools teaching life skills, so that pupils are ready, and able, to face the future knowing they can cope with the bare necessities of life.

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Seeing through UKIP

4:11pm Thursday 9th May 2013

THERE has been much debate about the results of the county council elections last week.

Is this money well spent in a recession?

4:10pm Thursday 9th May 2013

CAN someone tell us who is responsible, in a triple dip recession and job cutting exercise within the Council/Bolton at Home, whichever department it may be which is taking perfectly good roof tiles from six blocks of flats in Park View, Kearsley.

Speed claims and destroys many lives

11:06am Wednesday 8th May 2013

WHEN lifelong horse rider Claire Lomas was paralysed in a training accident, she set about raising awareness and funds for paraplegia.

The misdeeds of those in power must always be brought to light

11:07am Wednesday 8th May 2013

THROUGHOUT the many problems Britain has faced in the past and still does in the present, the outstanding British journalism and free speech we have been blessed with has been an enormous comfort and inspiration to ordinary people.

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Council tax: Paying more for less?

11:06am Wednesday 8th May 2013

I’M just wondering if the people of Bolton who pay council tax are happy to pay more for less, seeing that the council tax has gone up (despite Government ruling of no increase), and yet we will be getting less services for our money.

Fighting for workers’ rights

11:05am Wednesday 8th May 2013

I AM sure none of us can have failed to be moved by the recent tragic loss of life in the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh.

The rich invest in business and give large amounts to charity

10:53am Tuesday 7th May 2013

MR Jones comments that my letter regarding the contribution made to society by the wealthy is the most ill informed letter he has read this year.

Spy station puts UK on front line in any US war

10:52am Tuesday 7th May 2013

MENWITH Hill in Yorkshire is an important spy centre and the United States’ largest overseas intelligence station.

It’s common sense, not racism

10:51am Tuesday 7th May 2013

TO all my critics and those who called me racist and fixated with immigration, all I can say is I told you so.

Safety rules for everyone?

10:49am Tuesday 7th May 2013

THERE are a number of simple regulations which apply to Bolton bus station to ensure the health and safety of users. The most important ones are announced over the public address system, although constantly ignored by many.

Feeding advice vital to mothers

11:13am Friday 3rd May 2013

I WRITE this letter about my recent experience of breast-feeding my two-month-old baby and the brilliant support I have received from the Infant Feeding Support initiative which is currently being funded in Bolton.

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Do not rewrite our history by forgetting excesses of unions

11:14am Friday 3rd May 2013

MANY readers will not accept my contention that many, not all, union activities in the post war period were counter productive. Let me give two examples from my personal experience of a lifetime spent in the packaging and printing industry.

Just call her ‘Thatcher’

11:12am Friday 3rd May 2013

HAVING read much arising on the passing of Margaret Thatcher, one thing in particular strikes me. Margaret Thatcher appears to be one of the few famous females in history most frequently referred to without any title or first name, being known simply as ‘Thatcher’. After perhaps Ghandi I am struggling to think of others.

Give business the help it requires

11:13am Friday 3rd May 2013

IN response to the letter from Kathleen Thornton, I have a few things to add as a retailer in Bolton for 21 years.

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Afternoon litter shock

11:11am Friday 3rd May 2013

ON walking through town from Knowsley Street, past the Town Hall and along Newport Street on Saturday, April 20 at 5.30pm, the whole area was littered.

Power and politics put before tradition at council meeting

3:25pm Thursday 2nd May 2013

TRADITION means nothing to Labour in Westhoughton.

Disgusting patient behaviour

3:23pm Thursday 2nd May 2013

I REFER to the letter sent by Mrs A Gamble.

Myth of fat cats paying their way

3:24pm Thursday 2nd May 2013

RE the letter "Fat Cats help to swell the Treasury fund" by unknown author (April 30).

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Promise of heaven may be hell

3:23pm Thursday 2nd May 2013

IF you think British politics lacks a far left alternative think again — the Greens have discovered Socialism and are wondering why it has never been tried!

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Remember revolution

3:16pm Thursday 2nd May 2013

DESPITE all the troubles in the mining communities, people losing their homes and businesses, the Queen had the audacity to attend Margaret Thatcher’s funeral, which cost millions.

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Effects of Thatcherism are still felt

12:09pm Wednesday 1st May 2013

REGARDING the letter ‘Why Margaret Thatcher deserved a funeral similar to Churchill’s’ (April 26).

Patients playing the ‘waiting game’ is blocking hospital beds

12:10pm Wednesday 1st May 2013

I AM a regular inpatient at The Royal Bolton Hospital, usually three or four times a year, and always receive superb care, especially on Ward D3.

Residents stand up for town council

12:09pm Wednesday 1st May 2013

THE new petition for an Atherton Town Council has been completed in the record time 23 days as compared with three months in 2009, and recently, four months for the 2012 petition, which was the subject of a possible challenge by the Labour Group, triggering the need for the new petition.

Another shop closes...

12:07pm Wednesday 1st May 2013

I was very sorry to read that Gregory and Porritts is to close the Knowlsey Street furniture store after its long trading record in Bolton.

Maths App answers

12:08pm Wednesday 1st May 2013

THANK you for publishing the article about our App ‘Maths Everywhere’on Thursday, April 18.

Adulation and vitriol are on the same coin

12:06pm Wednesday 1st May 2013

I AM becoming heartily sick of the cult of personality surrounding politicians of all political persuasions. They do a job for which they are adequately remunerated and then they retire. We pay them and, as such, they are, in theory at least, our employees, though a lot of the time you’d be hard pressed to believe that.

Thank you for those glorious years

12:07pm Wednesday 1st May 2013

MARGARET Thatcher, winner of three general elections, democratically elected by the British people.

Cutacre – what is happening?

12:05pm Wednesday 1st May 2013

COULD Peel Holdings and Bolton Council explain what exactly is happening with the Cutacre Restoration Plan which set out the establishment of grassland and wooded areas along the western and eastern boundaries of the Cutacre site?

‘Zero hours’ reminiscent of the ’30s

12:06pm Wednesday 1st May 2013

THE growing use of so called “zero hours contracts” is a worrying trend.

Wanderers fans caused mayhem

12:05pm Wednesday 1st May 2013

I felt I must write after hearing from my daughter of an incident in Stroud concerning Bolton Wanderers fans on Saturday, April 13. My daughter works as a shop assistant in the town and news travels fast in a small place.

Plain packaging of cigarettes will be a disaster in deterring children

11:00am Tuesday 30th April 2013

I WAS surprised to read (Backing For Plain Cigarette Packs, April 24) that the new Police and Crime Commissioner for Greater Manchester Tony Lloyd is supporting government proposals for the plain packaging of cigarettes.

Smashing memories of T’Crate Egg

10:59am Tuesday 30th April 2013

BEING of a certain age and my past history, I would like to comment on readers’ observations on the area of Ashburner Street/Newport Street. (R Holden and I come from the same place.) Just beyond Battersby’s and between the Market Hotel (known as ‘T’Crate Egg’ due to its nearness to the old market where crates of eggs were unloaded) was a ginnel that ran behind the shops in Ashburner Street and Newport Street and came out at the gable end of the Grey Mare pub in Newport Street.

Fat cats help to swell the treasury fund

11:00am Tuesday 30th April 2013

HARDLY a day goes by without someone complaining about the so- called fat cats, without thinking for one moment about the contribution they make.

Scargill living a luxury life

10:58am Tuesday 30th April 2013

IAN Greenhalgh, Letters, April 22 — don’t put all the blame on Mrs Thatcher.

Truly amazing dance tutors

10:59am Tuesday 30th April 2013

Re the Strictly Learn To Dance event held at the Last Drop in aid of Bolton Hospice.

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