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TORY COUNCILLOR: Benefits cap would put end to 'something for nothing' culture

12:07pm Tuesday 7th February 2012

LAST week Labour voted against Conservative plans to put a cap on the total benefits that a household can receive. The cap would put an end to the unfair system Labour created, stop the ‘something for nothing’ culture and help incentivise people into work.

'Library played a central role for schools' - library campaign

10:56am Friday 27th January 2012

THE Chair of Save Bolton Libraries Campaign writes about the closure of Highfield library.

DAVID CRAUSBY MP: 'Drop the Health Bill for the good of the NHS'

4:50pm Tuesday 24th January 2012

THE National Health Service is a topic that I know my constituents care deeply about because they write to me every time a new element of the Government’s Health and Social Care Bill is revealed.

New chapter for Bolton's branch libraries

9:55am Tuesday 17th January 2012

BOLTON’S first “neighbourhood collection” – which is a mini self-service library in all but name – opened under a cloud, on Monday, in Farnworth.