WANDERERS have been dealt a huge blow with the news that Stuart Holden will be missing for the next six months. The US international was nearing a first team return for the Whites but has been called back into hospital for a follow-up procedure on
HAVING a Premier League football team in Bolton is probably worth between £30 to £35 million to the local economy, businessmen and women heard. And if by some appalling luck the club were to be relegated to the Championship it would lose around
PARENTS will be given lessons in making cigarette soup in a bid to encourage them to smoke away from their children. Smokefree North West has joined forces with Barnardo’s to carry out training sessions with staff in Bolton’s children’s centres
A FILM starring the legendary Farnworthborn variety performer Hylda Baker, which was thought to be lost, has been recovered following a five-year search. Eurwyn Jones, who lives in Blackpool, set out to track down the film, She Knows Y’Know
ARMY bomb disposal experts were called after a haul of Second World War explosives was found under the floorboards of a house in Horwich. Builders found four anti-aircraft shells, two hand grenades and a box of about 40 bullets underneath
ZAT KNIGHT has warned Wanderers that they must “get serious” if they are to reverse their slump to the bottom of the Premier League pile. Five defeats out of six mean Owen Coyle’s side prop up the table heading into October and a meeting with Chelsea
THE Bolton Wanderers Supporters Association will be holding a meeting with an international theme at the Reebok tomorrow night. It is hoped two of Wanderers’ foreign contingent will be in attendance to meet supporters, and there will also be a talk
WHETHER to plunge American star Stuart Holden into action against Chelsea is a million dollar question at the Reebok right now. Given a tantalising glimpse of his presence in the Carling Cup victory against Aston Villa eight days ago, many Wanderers
WANDERERS have been handed a welcome boost ahead of their Carling Cup meeting with Arsenal. The game has been scheduled to take place on Tuesday, October 25 - just 48 hours after the Gunners take on Stoke City at the Emirates in the Premier League.
BOLTON road racer Craig Battersby is basking in the glory of his most successful season – at the age of 37. The amateur has enjoyed two open race wins, along with five top-five finishes in major races in which he has rubbed shoulders with such
IT just had to happen. Four days after pouring scorn on Plymouth’s decision to sack Peter Reid and install club captain Carl Fletcher as caretaker manager, Argyle get their first win of the season. Dean Saunders enjoyed a similar first-day
IN May, when he was lobbying for votes in his efforts to be reelected for a fourth term as the allpowerful president of FIFA, Sepp Blatter banged his fist on a table as he launched an impassioned defence of the integrity of football’s world
ALTHOUGH bitterly disappointed that he had something to crow about on Saturday, I was grateful to Arsene Wenger for bringing up the state of the economy. I’ve hardly heard a mention of the nation’s finances from anyone else attached to the Premier
CAJOLED by my 15-yearold granddaughter, I sat through an entire edition of X-Factor on Saturday night for the first time. It was not my cup of tea, far from it in fact, but I can see why it tops the popularity ratings. The programme was superbly
IT was great to see some of Bolton’s unsung sporting heroes and heroines receiving awards at a special ceremony at the Reebok Stadium. The town’s boxing champion Amir Khan presented them and, as a keen badminton fan, I particularly loved the
TODAY’S worries about childhood obesity make virtually every young foray into a sporting activity a cause for celebration. But, realistically, not all of them. For example, there is little to be happy about seeing an eight year-old and a nine-year-old
IT’S a pity there isn’t the legislation to allow convicted fly-tippers to have dumped rubbish put back on their own doorsteps. Seeing the 20 tonne, 12 feet high pile of rubbish which last week blocked the access road to Firwood Industrial Estate
I’M sure that the proposed “Rocketman” film of Sir Elton John’s life will be hugely entertaining but I don’t believe it will be a patch on the original. He’s planning a biopic with actors James McAvoy and Ewan McGregory named as possibles
A BOLTON educational computer technology firm has been bought out by a larger rival. Zentek Solutions, in St Marks Street, has been taken over by Tribune Business Systems for an undisclosed sum. As part of the buyout deal, Tribune will acquire
I WOULD like to express my dismay at the lack of support from local MPs in relation to the Park Cakes Bolton/Oldham dispute. The terms and conditions of hundreds of workers, many with over twenty years service are under threat from company executives
OVER the past months there has been a great deal of propaganda and misinformation about public service pensions. There is no doubt that this will increase in the run up to the November 30 when public service workers across the country take strike
OPINION is certainly divided on the new Channel 4 series “Educating Essex.” The fly-on-the-wall documentary at Passmores School and Technology College in Harlow seems to have ruffled some feathers with foul-mouthed and unruly youngsters, and
GREATER Manchester Police chief Peter Fahy, pictured, is right – we don’t want our police officers with five o’clock shadows. He’s laid down the law among force members to ban designer stubble although still allows tidy beards. “Stubble
BOLTON’S Paddy McGuinness is certainly the man of the moment – and quite right, too. It only seems like two minutes ago that he was the Jack the Lad doorman of “Phoenix Nights” and now he’s the host-of-choice for a range of TV programmes including
IT seems as if members of organisations such as UNISON seem to have slept through a generation of Labour governance. In a recent paid advertisement featured in this newspaper, UNISON (Bolton branch) wrote: “together we can fight the cuts” Where
OVER the next few weeks more than one million members of Public Service Trade union, Unison will receive ballot forms at home asking them to vote on possible strike action over the future of their pensions. The Government is asking public sector
IN reply to David James. Please do not fall for the untruths being bandied about, I have read about such ignorant vitriolic hatred. Hitler started indoctrinating his Hitler Youth movement with untruths about the European Jews, with accusations
WRITER Joe O’Byrne is celebrating as one of his plays will be performed at his home town theatre, The Octagon, for the first time tomorrow and Friday. The Bench has already been given good reviews after performances in theatres across Manchester
A MAN was caught after his young victim revealed in a Doctor Who chatroom that he was being abused, a court heard. A jury at Bolton Crown Court was told how a 13- year-old boy was touched by Akbar Abdollahi on four occasions between September
MAJOR roadworks will close town centre streets next month. Work is to take place to improve two roads as part of Bolton Council’s ongoing investment in the town centre. The whole length of Bridge Street, and Deansgate, from its junction with
WHAT a good point the writer of the letter “It’s a quarry, that’s what quarries do” makes. It’s right that stone should come out of a quarry that has run successfully for many years. But unfortunately we are not just talking about one quarry or
TWO young sisters organised a sponsored swim to raise money for one of their relatives, who suffers from “locked in” syndrome. Charli Fairbrother, aged nine, and her sister Georgia, aged seven, of Westhoughton, took the plunge together. They
STUDENTS in Bolton are being urged to spot the signs of meningitis — and not to confuse symptoms with a hangover or freshers’ flu. Charity Meningitis UK is offering parents and new students at college and university potentially life-saving symptoms
THE trial of a Bolton terrorism suspect accused of having a poison gas recipe and bomb-making instructions could be moved from London to Manchester. Asim Kauser, aged 25, was due to appear at the Old Bailey, but his case did not go ahead because
A SCHEME to keep Bolton people warm in winter will be launched tomorrow. Toasty Bolton, which means people can apply for free loft and cavity wall insulation, is being launched in Victoria Square. The scheme offers insulation for free to all
A WOMAN is fighting for her life after being injured in a house blaze. Firefighters were called to Burns Avenue in Atherton at 12.45am yesterday. The woman, who is in her 40s, had managed to flee the burning end terraced house, but crews had
A DRAMATIC rescue unfolded at flats in Farnworth after wheelie bins caught fire, blocking escape routes. Sleeping residents at Bentley Court were woken at 4.50am yesterday by crackling flames before the fire alarm sounded. Terri Sotheron, aged
A SEX abuser corrupted a five-year-old child so badly that she continued submitting to his demands until she was in her mid 20s, a court heard. Anthony Calvert, aged 48, of Torrisdale Close, Deane, is alleged to have begun targeting his victim
THE Royal Bolton Hospital’s parking nightmare could soon be over. Bosses at the hospital are in talks to buy a piece of land to create a 540-space staff car park. They have also applied to Bolton Council to build the car park on the
THE country’s top funnymen — including Al Murray, Omid Djalili and Bolton’s own Dave Spikey — will be taking to the stage in the town to ensure plenty of laughs this autumn and winter. Kicking off the run of 10 comedy acts at the Albert Halls
A MAN who sexually assaulted two teenage girls was accused of showing a “total disregard and lack of respect” for women. Gurprett Singh, aged 31, of Francis Street, Farnworth, showed the 17-year-old girls a porn film on his mobile phone while
FIREFIGHTERS have issued a warning about cooking food and leaving it unattended after a pensioner died while making chips. Dennis Lidderth, aged 71, was found dead at his home in Arkwright Street, Horwich, on Monday. It is thought that Mr Lidderth
A BURGLAR used his victim’s phone to call a taxi—so it could take him to a cash point where he took out his victim’s money with a stolen card. Andrew Kenyon, aged 40, of no fixed abode, was yesterday jailed for four-and-a-half years after being
SHADOWCulture Secretary Ivan Lewis delivered a withering attack on the Conservatives and the Murdoch empire at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool yesterday. The Bury South MP called on Prime Minister David Cameron to “come clean” over
Peter Kay Live at the MEN Arena MOST of those in the audience at the MEN Arena had paid for their tickets to see the Bolton comedian almost two years ago. Even Peter Kay seemed as if his mind had been blown by how long his fans had waited
