A PUBLIC meeting will be held by the UK Independence Party in Bolton tonight.

The event will take place at Hardy Hall in Church Street, Little Lever from 7.30pm and will include speeches from the party’s North West chairman, Cllr Louise Bours as well as Paul Richardson, UKIP candidate for Little Lever and Darcy Lever in the local elections on May 22.

Cllr Bours said: “This is a brilliant opportunity for people to come along and find out just why UKIP is the fastest growing political party in the country.”