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Schools’ warning over online bullying

9:14am Monday 6th February 2012

PARENTS are being urged to monitor their children’s use of Facebook, after arguments on the social networking website have started spilling over into school.

Social network class as ‘important as physics’

9:14am Monday 6th February 2012

SCHOOLS across Bolton, including St Joseph’s, are teaching pupils how to use social networking websites.

Oliver, 17, is king of the UK’s young bakers

9:15am Monday 6th February 2012

TEENAGER Oliver Campbell is celebrating being crowned BBC Young Baker of the Year.

Bus firm facesprobe over punctuality of service

9:15am Monday 6th February 2012

ABUS firm will be probed by the industry watchdog over the punctuality of its service at a hearing today.

MP backs calls for stripping of knighthood

9:16am Monday 6th February 2012

CALLS for the owner of Farepak to be stripped of his knighthood are being backed by a Bolton MP.

No fun on the roads but the parks are all white

9:17am Monday 6th February 2012

SNOW caused travel chaos across Bolton as arctic temperatures hit.

Eight days that we grieved for the King

9:17am Monday 6th February 2012

IT is 60 years ago today since King George VI passed away and a young Queen Elizabeth took to the throne.

OAP is still trapped upstairs after lift broke at Christmas

9:17am Monday 6th February 2012

A PENSIONER is said to be a “prisoner in her own home”

‘Dragons’ pay up for five great ideas

9:17am Monday 6th February 2012

YOUNG people braved a Dragons’ Den-style grilling as part of their bid to win funding for projects to improve their communities.

Warning follows a spate of break-ins

9:19am Monday 6th February 2012

POLICE are warning people to be vigilant after a spate of burglaries.

Buses suspended due to snow

7:50am Sunday 5th February 2012

BUS services in Bolton have been suspended due to the snow.

£3m plan for garden centre is put on hold

10:20am Sunday 5th February 2012

PLANS for a £3 million redevelopment of Barton Grange Garden Centre in Bolton have been put on hold — but the owners say the project will still go ahead.

Hairdressing move gets the nod

10:10am Sunday 5th February 2012

PLANS to convert an empty Westhoughton shop into a busy hairdressers have been given the go ahead.

Town Hall staff’s 'two weeks’ of sick leave

10:10am Sunday 5th February 2012

TOWN Hall bosses are giving staff physiotherapy and counselling sessions to stop them going off sick after the latest figures revealed employees take an average of nearly two weeks off every year.