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Cancer sufferer loses battle with cancer

8:10am Tuesday 6th January 2009

A CANCER battler who defied predictions he had two weeks to live, has finally lost his fight with the disease.

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Cars set alight

12:50pm Monday 29th December 2008

A CAR was destroyed by fire in a park on Saturday morning.

Motorbike blaze

12:20pm Monday 29th December 2008

A Suzuki motorbike was destroyed by arsonists in Ivy Road, Brownlow Fold, Bolton, at 4.30pm yesterday.

Mercedes set alight

11:40am Monday 29th December 2008

A MERCEDES 4x4 was destroyed in a fire at 3am yesterday in Fairmount Avenue in Breightmet.

Robberies are cut as police target two areas

8:10am Monday 29th December 2008

A POLICE operation to reduce burglary and street and vehicle crime in two areas of Bolton has been declared a success.

'Little Angel' sees her first Christmas

Angel-May Ottley has the rare Dandy-Walker Syndrome

8:00am Friday 26th December 2008

LITTLE Angel-May Ottley has celebrated her first Christmas against all the odds.

Two Bolton Ramblers dates for your diary

10:03am Monday 22nd December 2008

Bolton Ramblers have organised a four-mile walk "From One Brook to Another" as part of their Ramblers' Festival of Winter Walks.

Thieves steal charity box for pub’s Christmas day party for the lonely

7:30pm Sunday 21st December 2008

THIEVES stole a charity collection box containing around £50 to help pay for a Christmas day party for lonely and vulnerable people in Bolton.

'Ruthless' armed gang jailed - dramatic video footage

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7:30am Friday 19th December 2008

Dramatic video footage showing members of a "ruthless" armed gang in action has been released as the robber from Bury who helped plan a series of raids in Bolton is jailed.

Anger as three Bolton schools are set to become academies

Pupils were among the anti-academy protesters outside Bolton Town Hall before the meeting which decided the fate of the three schools

7:40am Wednesday 17th December 2008

TOWN hall chiefs have decided to turn three schools into academies, sparking shouts of “shame” from protesters.

Three Bolton school closures: More details

NEW START: Hayward School, in Great Lever, could be replaced by an academy under the Bolton Council project

4:00pm Tuesday 16th December 2008

Three Bolton schools are to close and reopen as private sector-backed academies, it was revealed today.

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Battling Bolton granny bashes suspect shoplifter

TAKE THAT: No-nonsense Yvonne Neary with the wheelie bin she used to block the man’s path before she set about him with a piece of plastic piping

8:50am Tuesday 16th December 2008

BATTLING granny Yvonne Neary is being hailed a crime fighting hero — after trapping a suspected shoplifter as he tried to flee a charity shop.

64 jobs to go at Bolton kitchen suppliers

8:00am Tuesday 16th December 2008

A BOLTON kitchen and bathroom supplier is making 64 people redundant following the collapse of a major customer.

Grieving couple plan Christmas Day vigil

Steph Garnall and John O’Gorman with a picture of their daughter, Ellie Mai

7:20am Tuesday 16th December 2008

FOR many it is a time of celebration and joy, but Christmas for one heartbroken Bolton family will only serve as a stark reminder of their loss.

New appeal for witnesses to fatal A6 crash

Police at the scene on the A6 shortly after the crash this morning

8:57am Thursday 11th December 2008

Police have launched a new appeal for witnesses to a fatal crash on the A6 at Blackrod.

Bolton woman banned from playing snooker

SNOOKER BAN: Paula Rawsthorn

7:50am Thursday 11th December 2008

SNOOKER-mad Paula Rawsthorn has been barred from playing a frame at a local social club — because she is a woman.

Mayor’s Bolton carol service date

11:00am Thursday 11th December 2008

THE Mayor of Bolton will be in fine voice when he attends the annual Christmas carol service of the Male Voice Choir at Lee Clough Mission.

Flat ransacked during Bolton break-in

10:40am Thursday 11th December 2008

A THIEF stole a haul of goods after breaking in to a ground-floor flat.

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