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£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.

Bride to be sheds six stone for her big day

Bridge to be sheds six stone for her big day

1:30pm Friday 3rd July 2009

WHEN super slimmer Nicola Todd started to plan her dream wedding she knew she did not want to be a “fat bride”.

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.

Help X Factor star Laura land her first number one

Laura White

10:20am Friday 3rd July 2009

LAURA White is finally set to release her debut single — and the X Factor star wants YOU to choose the song.

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.

Nurse needs you to back cancer campaign

DOUBLING UP: Marie Curie Nurses, from the left, Luisa Rimmer, Sue Irwin and Pam McCarthy with the cutout of Sue Irwin at the launch of the Marie Curie appeal

9:29am Friday 3rd July 2009

THE face of Bolton’s Marie Curie Nurses Appeal, Sue Irwin, is today urging people to get behind the campaign.

Chance to swap frocks at charity fashion event

9:30am Friday 3rd July 2009

A CHARITY fundraiser in Bolton is set to turn rags to riches with a frock swap in aid of the NSPCC.

Smoking banned at Royal Bolton Hospital

7:51am Thursday 2nd July 2009

SMOKING has been banned at the entire Royal Bolton Hospital site.


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