Wonderful schemes but no funds

9:00am Thursday 9th July 2009

ISN’T it strange how words uttered nearly 2,000 years ago have relevance to the economic practices of the present Labour government.

Amir Khan is a real credit to his family

9:01am Thursday 9th July 2009

I was attending a wedding reception last Saturday at the Rebook football ground, and also attending another event there was Amir Khan.

Changing Places toilet badly needed

9:01am Thursday 9th July 2009

I WRITE in support of the Changing Places Campaign.

Thank you for coveted award

9:02am Thursday 9th July 2009

MAY I, through your letters page, thank everyone most sincerely who were involved in my being nominated and awarded the Civic Medal for Horwich 2009.

Traitors were those who didn't vote

9:02am Thursday 9th July 2009

I TAKE strong objection to Steve Jones’ letter in Saturday’s paper calling all those who voted for the BNP or UKIP traitors.

Rail nationalisation is the way forward

8:59am Thursday 9th July 2009

WHEN I accessed the “Should the railways be re-nationalised?” vote on The Bolton News website at 6pm on Saturday, the results stood at 88 per cent of respondents saying “Yes”.

They've done their duty with honour

8:59am Thursday 9th July 2009

JOHN Higson (The Bolton News July 6) spoke for all of us when he asked how Blair and Bush could sleep at night.

We want quiet we are all entited to

9:00am Thursday 9th July 2009

IT’S good to see Bolton at Home, with Bolton Council, have organised a Tonge’s Got Talent contest (The Bolton News, July 1). This could explain why housing managers and officers are unavailable/in a meeting/not in until Monday/will call you back (they never do) whenever you contact the neighbourhood housing office.

Parking tickets are seeing off shoppers

9:31am Wednesday 8th July 2009

FURTHER to recent correspondence, we too received a parking ticket. We have had to pay £25 for the privilege of being a disputed four minutes over our allotted time.

There is a right to peaceful protest

9:31am Wednesday 8th July 2009

NO, Paul Lacey, protesters do not have the right to “shut up” whoever they please (Letters, June 30).

Teacher ‘MOTs’ have already failed

9:32am Wednesday 8th July 2009

REGARDING “Teacher MOT Test will benefit us all” by Anthony J. Boddy (Letters, July 4).

Never leave dogs in a car in hot weather

9:21am Wednesday 8th July 2009

EVERY summer we hear of dogs suffering and dying because the people who are supposed to be caring for them leave them in a car in sweltering heat.

Thanks — for a soaking!

9:21am Wednesday 8th July 2009

THANK you so much to the young woman driving the big silver Vauxhall up our back lane at 9pm last Tuesday evening.

Cleaner was a real credit

9:22am Wednesday 8th July 2009

ON Saturday I was rushed to Bolton Accident and Emergency with severe chest pains and want to say what wonderful staff the hospital have.

Let’s have more daylight in the autumn

9:23am Wednesday 8th July 2009

DAVID Crausby, MP for Bolton North East, and Brian Iddon, MP for Bolton South East, have signed an Early Day Motion in Parliament, urging the Government to explore the option of adding an extra hour of daylight to each day.

Heatwave beats the nuclear option as temperatures rocket

9:18am Wednesday 8th July 2009

FRANCE is being forced to import electricity from Britain to cope with a summer heatwave that has helped to put a third of its nuclear power stations out of action.

Anyone know a Jack Tomlinson?

9:19am Wednesday 8th July 2009

IN response to the letter printed from L S Scoble — PC Jack Tomlinson was my dad’s grandad’s brother’s son. In the letter it says Mr Scoble believes he’s the only one remaining. My dad was wondering what happened to his relation.

A real knight of the road

9:19am Wednesday 8th July 2009

WHEN next you are in the Tesco car park at Middlebrook, you might well see a gentleman with the glow of a knight in shining armour around him. At the weekend I learned that the age of chivalry is not dead.

Thanks for help after accident

8:40am Tuesday 7th July 2009

MAY I take this opportunity to say thank you to the residents of Beaumont Road, Lostock, for their help and kindness on the evening of Sunday, June 28.

Perfect display of cobbled street

8:41am Tuesday 7th July 2009

WITH regards to my letter, “There are no cobbled streets in Bolton” (June 19), I am corrected by a resident of the Firwood Fold Conservation Area, which displays cobbled streets to perfection. Is this the same area referred to by the anonymous lady caller?

A losing argument

8:41am Tuesday 7th July 2009

THE comments of Paul Lacey in his letter, “BNP protesters are well within their rights” (June 30), are typical of the back-to-front thinking and hysteria of many anti-BNP campaigners.

My opinions are not based on rumours

8:42am Tuesday 7th July 2009

THIS is a response to S Dean’s letter, “BNP: Entitled to vote for who we wish” (June 23).

Figures show Labour voters switched to BNP

8:42am Tuesday 7th July 2009

PAUL Lacey states that Labour votes did not go to the BNP.

Time to pull the plug and start anew

8:43am Tuesday 7th July 2009

WITH regard to MPs’ expenses, each day we learn, one by one, how these people are claiming thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money.

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