Teacher ‘MOT test’ will benefit us all

3:10pm Saturday 4th July 2009

IT is not often these days that one can find anything inspiring arising from what is essentially now a semi-redundant Government.

Travesty of a school "sports day"

3:10pm Saturday 4th July 2009

I RECENTLY attended Bolton’s KS1 virtual sports festival! For most readers, this is what we used to call a school sports day.

Foreigners are part of nation's heritage

3:30pm Friday 3rd July 2009

ANTHONY Backhouse, in his letter, “UK’s indigenous people” (June 26), cites the existence of four racial groups — the English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish — in support of his claim that the British people are not “a nation of foreigners”. But he forgets that none of those groups have their origins within the British Isles!

Explaining consumer law

11:41am Friday 3rd July 2009

I AM writing in response to Lawrence Owens’ letter “Consumer rights offer protection”, to clarify the UK’s consumer protection laws.

A 999 delay could have been fatal

11:37am Friday 3rd July 2009

I LIVE next to the railway line in between Lostock and Westhoughton, and early yesterday morning noticed a distressed cow running inbetween the railway tracks towards Lostock railway station.

This is a pointless parking restriction

11:38am Friday 3rd July 2009

SADLY, there is no Nobel Prize for stupidity. If there had been, a strong contender for this year’s nomination would surely have been the highway engineer who decided to plaster Chorley New Road in Horwich with double yellow lines, all the way from the junction with Winter Hey Lane to the beginning of the Horwich RMI frontage.

Wars created terror threat to UK

9:11am Thursday 2nd July 2009

JOHN Tilley’s letter (June 26) seemed to lose its way about half way through.

Police training was no horseplay

9:44am Thursday 2nd July 2009

AS the last serving member of the Bolton Borough Police’s Mounted Section before the force was amalgamated with Lancashire Constabulary in April, 1969, I can throw a little more light on the photograph of the horseplay in the Looking Back section of The Bolton News on June 15.

Modern Europe is much fairer

9:46am Thursday 2nd July 2009

APPARENTLY some of my fellow Boltonians wish to disentangle themselves form Europe.

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