POLICE and football fans clashed tonight ahead of Manchester United's home game against AS Roma. Up to 100 people were involved in the street fights with Greater Manchester Police officers at Manchester's Old Trafford football ground. Police dog units
Lancashire batsman Iain Sutcliffe is a man on a mission - he wants to force his way into the one-day team after a season's exile. The former Leicestershire opener has been a rock at the top of the Red Rose batting order in the County Championship - but
ADLINGTON Cricket Club will go into the new season with £50,000 worth of new facilities. Players can now hone their batting and bowling skills in new nets while the pitch has been improved by extensive drainage work. The work has taken place in time
Bolton County 1 Mill Hill1 BOLTON County produced another workmanlike performance in a hard fought clash, which despite end to end action, produced few clear cut chances. County took the lead when Tom Walsh slotted the ball home after good work from
Bolton Wyresdale 4 Tonge United 3 BOLTON Wyresdale continued their good run with a well-deserved win over Tonge United. Wyresdale, still missing several regular players, started slowly and some sloppy defending allowed Tonge to take an early lead.
ATHERTON LR's hectic period continues when they travel to Nelson for tonight's rescheduled NWCL Division One clash - their fourth game in seven days. Rovers were winning 4-1 at relegation-threatened Nelson last month when the floodlights failed, forcing
NEWLY retired 60-year-old Fred Allen is not content with having a Sunday morning kick-about with one of his four grandchildren. Instead, the former Bury Times editor spends Sunday mornings playing for the BSF Over-35s League team Ainsworth Fossils B,
Martyn Skipper has been promoted to the senior rank of fourth dan black belt. The Bolton-based instructor passed with flying colours last month. The 43-year-old, who takes classes at Edgworth School, has been practising karate since 1976 and now holds
NEWLY retired 60-year-old Fred Allen is not content with having a Sunday morning kick-about with one of his four grandchildren. Instead, the former Bury Times editor spends Sunday mornings playing for the BSF Over-35s League team Ainsworth Fossils B,
ADLINGTON Cricket Club will go into the new season with £50,000 worth of new facilities. Players can now hone their batting and bowling skills in new nets while the pitch has been improved by extensive drainage work. The work has taken place in time
A BOLTON badminton player celebrates his 17th birthday next week with an England call-up. Gary Fox, from Atherton, who plays for the Markland Hill club in the Bolton League will travel to Arnhem in the Netherlands later this month to play for the England
FOLLOWING a break for Easter, Walshaw acoustic nights return on April 22. The nights, which are held at Walshaw Sport Club, Sycamore Road, Tottington, Bury, every second and fourth Sunday of the month, feature live, unplugged musicians. Admission is
ASBO have claimed their place in the finals of Xfm's Uploaded competition. The band were voted through by listeners via the station's website after appearing on DJ Clint Boon's show. They now join three other finalists whose music will be assessed by
A DEMOLITION firm's bid to build 16 homes on land it currently uses as a haulage yard has been rejected. Walter Forshaw Ltd applied to build the three-storey homes on the yard in Bolton Road, Westhoughton, which will become redundant when the company
WHEN Elaine Tin Yi Ling arrived in Bolton she was meeting up with friends - although she had only ever spoken to them before through a computer keyboard. The 11-year-old is just one of the children, from a school in Hong Kong, who has been swapping information
A CAT spent three days trapped in a wall cavity while her owner frantically searched for her. It eventually took Bolton firemen three hours and two holes in the chimney breast of Janet Crawford's 300-year-old cottage to free Sophie, the accident prone
HIS husky vocals instantly marked him out as a new voice among singer-songwriters. And now, Ray LaMontagne has announced a 14-date headline tour of the UK. He will play the Apollo, in Manchester, on Wednesday October 17. Tickets cost £18.50, and are
DANISH singer songwriter Tina Dico will appear in Bury tomorrow. The gig, at The Met, in Bury, is the second date on her UK tour, which begins tonight at Leicester's The Musician. The tour coincides with the debut UK release of Tina's first two albums
THIS Friday sees much-loved Bolton five-piece Last Chance take to the stage at the Soundhouse with their own peculiar brand of pop-punk. Once again, promoters Death 2 The DJ have organised a sterling line-up, following last week's triumphant Our Fold
YOUNG volunteers are being invited to an open day at a Bolton-based anti-bullying charity. Bully Free Zone, based in Palace Street, Bolton, is hoping to recruit volunteers between the ages of 16 and 24 to help work with children who have been the victim
JUST weeks after contracting meningitis, little Leah Johnston is playing happily. The one-year-old girl was just minutes away from death after falling ill with the the potentially deadly bacterial form of the illness in January. Now she is bouncing
ACTOR Sir Ian McKellen says he finds his knighthood is an "oddity" - although he says it comes in handy when he is trying to impress people. The former Bolton School pupil and star of blockbuster movies Lord of the Rings, Da Vinci Code and X-Men, says
COUNCILLORS in Bolton should be paid a salary of at least £20,000 a leading Liberal Democrat has said. Cllr Martyn Cox, member for Horwich and Blackrod, has decided not to stand for re-election in next month's local poll, citing family and work pressures
BAKERS Greenhalgh's celebrated 50 years of family ownership by announcing plans to open its 50th store this year. The firm, based in Lostock, is on a major expansion drive across the North-west, spreading further into Lancashire, making inroads into
THE owner of a Bolton steelworks posted record pre-tax profits of £30.3 million - an increase of 54 per cent on last year. Thirsk-based Severfield Rowen, which owns Watson Steel in Lostock, reported all core businesses performing strongly. Chairman
BUSINESSES who pay their employees' fuel expenses will soon face new VAT fuel scale charges based on the energy efficiency of vehicles. HM Revenue and Customs has announced changes to the VAT scale charge which take effect from May 1. It will see the
MANUFACTURERS short of funds to exhibit at a trade show at the Reebok Stadium next month can apply for grants of up to 50 per cent of the cost. Funds have been made available by Bolton Council to allow exhibitors to recoup half the cost of displaying
ON THE SPOT - Name: John Gillibrand. Birthplace: Manchester. Company: Unity, Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers, Bolton. Position: Senior partner. Where did you start? KPMG, Manchester, qualified in 1984 and started my own business
BOLTON presenter Sara Cox has landed a job hosting the popular Channel 4 music programme "The Album Chart Show." Sara takes over from Joe Mace for the start of the third series, due to air this summer for 12 episodes plus a number of specials. The
PEOPLE with mental health problems in Bolton will get extra help in building the skills and confidence needed to use buses and trains thanks to a £40,000 cash boost. The Bolton Association Network of Drop-ins (BAND,) a charity which supports people with
OUR business award winners not only take home plaudits on the night, but a lasting boost to their reputation, according to last year's winners. "It raises your profile quite considerably," said Rona Brown, financial director of 2006 Family Business of
PLANS for a 38ft-high concrete mixing plant on the Blackrod Industrial Estate have been thrown out. Residents handed in petitions signed by 189 people and 41 letters to Bolton Council opposing the £200,000 Amix Concrete scheme. The proposals for the
A FORMER haemophiliac is to give evidence to a formal inquiry seeking to discover why thousands of people given blood in the 1970s and 1980s were infected with hepatitis C or HIV. David Fielding was given the tainted blood products in NHS transfusions
AN electrical fault sparked this dramatic car fire. Firefighters were called to Welbeck Road, Doffcocker, Bolton, at 1.25pm yesterday after the owner spotted his Honda Accord in flames on his drive. Neighbour Farook Suleman captured the inferno on his
The Bolton News TV News, Sport and Weather bulletin for April 10 is online now.
THE Royal Bolton Hospital has a new non-executive director. Dr Sunita Thomson, a Bolton Wanderers fan, had a career in the pharmaceutical industry and is currently director of Goal development consultancy. She is also a magistrate, a civil and commercial
A FARMER claims his livestock are being put in danger by fly-tippers. Kevin Goodman says he is fighting a losing battle against the flytippers who regularly dump rubbish on his land. He believes it is only a matter of time before one of his animals
IMAGINE a person who watches every calorie that passes their lips, spends hours in the gym, frets constantly over their appearance and blows a fortune on products to improve the way they look. Were you thinking of a woman? If so, it isn't surprising
DISABLED parking spaces are vital for those who find it difficult to walk the distance to their desired destination. Anyone who drives knows just how frustrating it is trying to find a parking space during busy periods - especially in the town centre
RE Andrew Barlow's statement "Workers must be paid more" ("Slavery still exists today", March 29). I agree. Perhaps Andrew already buys tea, coffee and other products which carry the Fairtrade mark. If not, he might make it a priority when he next goes
THERE have been many letters on this page about problems with public transport, but they are not, in my opinion, aided by the very poor public watchdog, the GMPTE, which relies on a tax levy on households to exist. True, it can do only so much when commercial
I AM disappointed that Deborah Dunleavy has deliberately misinterpreted my previous letter to once again publicise herself as a Parliamentary candidate for the Tories. The people of Bolton will, no doubt, be able to judge for themselves this sort of
IAM amazed that any civilised country is still deporting people to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Are you aware millions have already been killed, and are still being killed, by the various factions there? Does the Home Office read any of the literature
Last year, with my husband, I managed to go to every Status Quo concert on the UK winter tour, a total of 31 concerts in 6 weeks. I met so many people who had stories to tell about their experiences of seeing Quo. As a result I am compiling a book of
After passing on many of Mr Harkin's previous comments, I feel it is time to reply again to the many letters by Guy Harkin and Derek Burrows with various comments about everyone else. This used to happen when I was a councillor for the Kearsley area,
FOUR women were taken to the Royal Bolton Hospital with suspected whiplash injuries following a three car crash in Moss Bank Way. A Nissan Almera crashed with a Mitsubishi 4x4, which was shunted into a Renault Clio at 1.50pm on Easter Monday. The three
PENSIONER Gladys Settle's lifetime of devotion to the church and charity earned her a special meeting with the Queen. Mrs Settle, aged 78, of Little Lever, who worships at St Matthew's Church, Little Lever, was among 81 women and 81 men chosen to receive
A POWERFUL exhibition has opened at Bolton Museum, charting the lives of vulnerable African refugees who have settled in the town. The families, from Sudan, came to Bolton in January, 2006, as part of the Gateway Protection Programme - a joint UN and
BROADCASTER Victoria Derbyshire is in the running for a major award for her morning phone-in show on BBC Radio Five Live. The radio presenter, who was born in Bury but grew up in Turton, is in the final for the 2007 Sony Radio Academy Awards in the category
TRIBUTES have been paid to a mother of three who was killed when a motorbike ploughed into her and two of her children. Flowers and messages have been left at the spot where Lyndsay Oldham died on Good Friday. At the time of the accident, she had been
A GRANDSON looking after his gandmother's bungalow accidentally set the property on fire. Firefighters were called to the chip pan blaze at Whittle Avenue, Walkden yesterday. The kitchen was badly damaged and the rest of the house was smoke logged but
PARTS of St Peter's Way will be closed to traffic overnight on six weekends in the next 12 months. The dual carriageway will be closed both northbound and southbound between Kearsley roundabout and Bradford Street on April 21 and 22, June 9 and 10, July
A 26-YEAR-OLD man is due to appear at court today after being charged with a robbery at a Horwich bookmakers. Paul Martin Rathbone, of Rosyth, Scotland, was arrested in Hampshire on Sunday morning following the robbery at Ladbrokes in Chorley New Road
CASE STUDY - BRENDA Trigance-Clarke, aged 58, has been a registered blue badge holder since 1979 when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. In recent years, she says it has become so hard to park in Bolton town centre that she stays away and shops
CHEATS who abuse blue badge disabled parking have been caught in a police sting. Respected professionals and council employees are among a group of 44 people trapped in the biggest ever crackdown on parking fraudsters. A two-week purge on drivers who
IT'S as you were and all to play for in the race for Europe. And, with only five games to go, that suits Wanderers right down to the ground - even if Sam Allardyce is still playing down their chances of securing a Champions League spot. He might just
ARSENE Wenger has warned Wanderers they will be up against a confident Arsenal side in the fourth-place showdown at The Emirates on Saturday. The Gunners ended a run of three demoralising defeats with a scoreless draw at Newcastle yesterday, to maintain
