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.

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.

£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.

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