SIR: I read your report (BEN October 17) about the further delay in the Westhoughton supermarket saga. People of this town are concerned at the apathy shown at the effort to bring a decent thriving shopping area to us. More than once have I been told
By GORDON SHARROCK IT might be one of the tallest orders in football but Wanderers hope to wreck Nottingham Forest's record-breaking plans at the City Ground tomorrow. Pointless in their first four away games and currently 19th in the table, the Burnden
DETECTIVES were today hunting an armed gang who ram-raided an Armaguard depot using a tipper truck and got away with around £500,000. Staff were forced to lie on the floor at the Armaguard building in Mode Wheel Road, Salford. A shot was fired which hit
LITTLE Bruce William Frank Charles Hamblett is a living tribute to his parents' passion for Bolton Wanderers. The 18 month old toddler has been given the initials BWFC by football-crazy mum and dad Anne and Colin. Anne, 31, said: "We're all so proud and
BOLTON'S top "green" officer wants cash-strapped Bolton Council to spend LESS on cleaning up after litter louts. Mr Jeff Layer, head of environmental management, shocked councillors yesterday when he said he would cut the £1.3 million a year the council
TWO Little Hulton women were given a seven day jail sentence yesterday for refusing to pay fines imposed after an anti-nuclear protest. But Christine Dean and Paula Truscott, both from Manchester Road East, Little Hulton, walked free from Salford Magistrates
SIR: Like Mr Brooks of Farnworth, my son, who absolutely adores his 11-year -old daughter, has maintained her all his life. Since he split with his girlfriend five years ago, he has her two and three times a week, takes her on holiday, and buys any necessary
WE understand and sympathise with the outburst against litter louts by Jeff Layer, head of environment management in Bolton. But we can't support his suggestion that Bolton Council should spend less on cleaning up after the morons who drop their rubbish
THE towel weaving firm of John Ainscow, Beehive Mill, Lostock, taken over by the Spirella Group of companies five months ago, is to close "due to pressure from cheap imports." The first batch of the firm's 300 employees will be made redundant this weekend
