Trains ‘should be scrapped’ says MP

8:00am Saturday 4th July 2009

SOME of the over-crowded trains passing through Bolton are fit for nothing but the scrap yard, according to a local MP.

MP makes UK medal plea

10:00am Saturday 4th July 2009

A BOLTON MP is calling on the Government to have the new Elizabeth Cross military medal manufactured in the UK.

Indian pipers to represent town in festival march

9:00am Saturday 4th July 2009

BOLTON’S rich heritage will be celebrated as part of a procession organised by Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller this weekend.

£1m drugs are recovered after swoop at lock-up

6:00pm Friday 3rd July 2009

DRUGS with an estimated street value of more than £ 1million have been recovered in Leigh.

£1m bid for new council houses development

5:20pm Friday 3rd July 2009

LAND has been earmarked for the first council houses to be built in the borough for more than a generation.

Goods seized at house after police break in

4:20pm Friday 3rd July 2009

A WARNING shot has been fired to nightmare neighbours who make the lives of residents in their community a misery.

Transport police team signal their intent

3:30pm Friday 3rd July 2009

BOLTON’S first dedicated team of neighbourhood transport police officers is set to start patrolling the town’s railways.

Man jailed for murder of Saeed Hussan

3:00pm Friday 3rd July 2009

A 23-year-old man has today been jailed for life for the murder of 32-year-old Saeed Hassan at a house in Hulme.

Heatwave putting pressure on A&E

2:20pm Friday 3rd July 2009

SOARING temperatures are putting local health services under increased pressure, NHS bosses said last night.

Unions join fight to save council jobs

12:00pm Friday 3rd July 2009

CARE workers are to lobby councillors next week in protest at Bolton Council’s plans to axe more than half of them as part of a bid to save £1 million.

Nashville award for country DJ

11:30am Friday 3rd July 2009

FOR more than 30 years he has been an authority on country music.

Security stepped up at market after fire

9:50am Friday 3rd July 2009

A CLOSED-circuit television camera has been installed to increase security following a blaze at Horwich Market in the early hours of Wednesday.

Online smears aimed at top Tory hopeful

9:35am Friday 3rd July 2009

THE woman hoping to become Bolton West MP at the next General Election has been compared to Hitler in an online attack by her own colleagues.

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