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Police probe Bolton estate New Year's Day 'battlefield' fracas

Four taken to hospital after fight, Kearsley

2:28pm Friday 2nd January 2009

Four men ended up in hospital as a result of large scale fighting by violent thugs in Kearsley on New Year's Day.

Suicide threat causes Bolton train delays

Bolton Rail Station

12:20pm Thursday 11th December 2008

A person threatening to commit suicide close to Kearsley railway station caused delays to services just before lunchtime.

Exactly what we wanted say pupils - new loos!

PEEK A LOO: Pupils in the new toilets

9:10am Friday 14th November 2008

WHEN pupils were asked what they most wanted at school they could have chosen the latest plasma screen television, mixing decks or games consoles for their common room.

VIDEO: Evil spirits at a pub - can you see them?

SPOOKED: A wary Mandy Grimshaw and pub manager Steve Porter with the CCTV screen which is recording the ghostly action

9:10am Wednesday 12th November 2008

STAFF at a pub are used to handling whisky and vodka — but spirits of a different kind are now keeping them busy.

Widow's plea one year after husband's death

HEARTBREAKING: Shirley Kay who wants to know how her husband, Gorden, was killed

4:49pm Thursday 30th October 2008

A HEARTBROKEN widow has issued a fresh plea for information about her husband’s death, a year after he was killed.

Bolton street dancers take on the world

STREET STYLE: Members of the S Klass dance team prepare for their date at the world championships

7:40am Thursday 30th October 2008

A STREET dancing team is set to compete in the world championships.

Bolton war hero, 89, robbed at knifepoint by thugs

Percy Darlington

6:00am Friday 24th October 2008

A WAR hero who fought in the D-Day landings was targeted by masked robbers who held a knife to his throat and threatened to kill him.

'Low life cowards' threaten Bolton OAP, 89, with knife

Police crime scene

8:42am Thursday 23rd October 2008

Armed robbers threatened an 89-year-old man with a knife after he returned to his home in Kearsley from visiting his wife's grave at a local cemetery.

Pet rat barred from classroom

Jacob and hispet rat Ratatouille

2:30pm Friday 17th October 2008

EIGHT-year-old Jacob Briars could not wait to show off his new pet to his friends at his school’s weekly “show and tell” event.

Governors say no to 'super academy' idea

9:50pm Thursday 9th October 2008

TOWN Hall plans to create a controversial “super academy” have been dealt a blow after a key school pulled out.

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Many accidents involving children are the fault of the children themselves, either through arrogance, like the secondary school pupils crossing the roads, or the younger children not taught better ways to deal with traffic and copying the “bigger” children in the way they cross the road.  − Readers Letter

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I would have thought that shipping the stuff abroad, which in itself involves burning fuel, is just a movement of the problem. Surely, the idea of recycling is that you deal with your own mess as you make it, on your own doorstep.  − Readers Letter

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