BOLTON babe Sara Cox shocked the nation and her BBC bosses by taking up her post as Radio One's headgirl three days before schedule. She was due to start her much hyped post on Monday, but Sara barged into broadcasting house yesterday morning and demanded
A BUILDING which used to be owned by snooker star Tony Knowles looks likely to be turned into 16 flats. Planning permission for the scheme was granted by Horwich Town Council, though it still has to be approved by Bolton Council's planning committee.
A UNIQUE centre which helps the recovery of people with serious brain injuries has celebrated its first year in business. The Neurocare Centre in Salford has now helped almost 3,000 patients -- more than 25 per cent of them from the Bolton area. The centre
A YOUNGSTER will be killed if nothing is done to solve traffic gridlock outside a school, a councillor has warned. Eight buses, as well as scores of parents, park outside Rivington and Blackrod High as home time approaches to pick up pupils. And though
BOLTON'S famous faces and civic leaders have thrown their support behind a Wanderers' Wembley win. Actors, sports stars and our local politicians all say they will be cheering on the Super Whites -- either from the Wembley terraces or in front of TV screens
CAMPAIGNERS will be demonstrating tomorrow outside Wakefield prison in support of a group of prisoners known as the UK 2000. They all claim to have been wrongly imprisoned as a result of false allegations of sexual abuse. One of the UK 2000 members is
A HEADTEACHER has banned the latest playground craze -- because it was undermining discipline at her orderly primary school. Markland Hill head Pat Beddows says the craze for Pokemon cards was causing playground squabbles and problems in the classroom
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THIS is what we want at the Octagon -- a play that has the theatre buzzing. If this is the standard of production that Executive Director Simon Stallworthy and Theatre Director Mark Babych are going to be staging, then the Octagon is in safe hands. Babych
ALAN Stubbs turned the clock back to the good old giant-killing days as he set the scene for an upset in tomorrow's FA Cup semi-final at Wembley. The man who scored the goal that added Aston Villa to the list of prized scalps Wanderers took during their
OLD homes in Radcliffe are taking on a new look in a multi-million pound renewal programme. Terraced properties in Pine Street, Schofield Street and Cross Lane are undergoing a major facelift with a £600,000 private sector grant. The work on more than
YOU could say he was "wheely" funny -- and that wouldn't be talking rubbish. Billy McGuinness is funny, very, very funny -- so funny in fact, he's been invited to the semi finals of a national comedy competition . . . even though he didn't win the regional
IT'S official - Bolton is taking over Radio One. When Sara Cox launched her eagerly awaited breakfast show three days early yesterday, she was soon followed by Mark Radcliffe on his afternoon show. It means that Bolton is the only town in the country
A GROUP of "sisters" are doing it for themselves... They are a group of Oxford Grove mums who were once total strangers to the electric drill and the circular saw -- but now they can put Handy Andy to shame! "Or rather, we are Handy Annies," laughed Quemmer
WANDERERS were reminded today that their bid for FA Cup glory should not be allowed to hi-jack their promotion drive. Skipper Mike Whitlow described next Wednesday's derby duel with Manchester City at Maine Road as "a massive game". Wanderers will walk
THE determination to atone for recent disappointments will be a motivating factor in both camps ahead of tomorrow's FA Cup semi-final at Wembley. Wanderers return to the twin towers anxious to exorcise the demons left behind by last season's play-off
Bill Jacobs writes... BOLTON MP Brian Iddon sat in on a recent Commons debate as North-west MPs laid into the Government for its decision to site a £500 million science project in Oxfordshire rather than the region. Led by Tory Graham Brady and Labour's
SAM Allardyce has come a long way in a short time since he marked his 45th birthday by picking up the managerial reins at the Reebok. Today he stands on the threshold of the first leg of a dream double. He has achieved one ambition already by taking his
GARETH Farrelly, once regarded as one of Aston Villa's brightest young stars, knows he is probably going to Wembley tomorrow just for the ride. A place on the subs' bench is the best he can hope for but he isn't grumbling. He's in the squad, knows he
25 YEARS AGO f-b f-ioof+zs-13f+bf-zf-bo SIR,- Driving sheep through Bolton traffic ought not to be allowed. A flock of sheep was being driven down Bank-st. on Tuesday afternoon, and it was painful to see one or two of them keep sinking to the ground.
