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Shop’s goal to help girls’ team

9:01am Thursday 29th July 2010

A GIRLS’ football team is to get new kit and coaching after a supermarket raised £750 at a fun day.

Google glory for hi-tech deputy head

9:01am Thursday 29th July 2010

A DEPUTY head from Bolton is stepping into cyberspace to learn about teaching in tomorrow’s world.

Jailed for burglary at mosque

8:51am Thursday 29th July 2010

A BURGLAR who stole copper piping, a boiler and shower from a mosque has been jailed for 36 weeks.

Four men arrested in police raid

8:51am Thursday 29th July 2010

FOUR men have been arrested and class A drugs with a street value of £9,000 seized after police swooped on houses in Bolton.

Full steam ahead for station facelift

8:53am Thursday 29th July 2010

work is due to start on a £4 million revamp of Bolton Station.

Off-licences fined for selling to girl, 15

8:53am Thursday 29th July 2010

THREE off-licences have each been fined £80 for selling wine to a 15-year-old girl in a sting operation.

Church slaps a ban on yoga group

8:55am Thursday 29th July 2010

A YOGA club is to be forced out of its home because church leaders believe the classes are “spiritually confusing”.

Woman robbed while in her car

8:55am Thursday 29th July 2010

A TERRIFIED woman was targeted by roadside robbers in a “lightening quick” attack on her car.

Fire crews attend spate of arson attacks

8:56am Thursday 29th July 2010

FIREFIGHTERS dealt with a spate of deliberately started fires in Bolton over the past two days.

Church revamp funding lost

8:57am Thursday 29th July 2010

A PROPOSED futuristic multi-million pound community centre has been dealt a major blow after hundreds of thousands of pounds of funding was withdrawn.

Caring Becky to help orphans in Romania

8:57am Thursday 29th July 2010

WHEN she was just six years old, Becky Watson saw a TV programme highlighting the desperate plight of Romanian orphans and knew she wanted to help.

Hunt for bank raiders

8:58am Thursday 29th July 2010

AXE-wielding masked robbers threatened police and security officers when they stole cash in a bank raid.

New law gives hope to angry gardeners

8:59am Thursday 29th July 2010

A DISGRUNTLED allotment holder is hoping to use a new piece of legislation to force a public inquiry into Bolton Council’s plans to raise rents on plots.