A dairy worker stabbed his mother-in-law to death after she helped her daughter escape a loveless arranged marriage, a jury has heard. Muhammad Tafham, 31, is alleged to have murdered Rahman Begum, 46, in anger at her home in Rochdale just days
A GROUP of schoolgirls were left in tears after discovering a naked man hiding in a bush playing kitten noises in Padgate. Cheshire Police have launched an investigation after officers were called to a wooded area near Finningley Court in Padgate
ONLINE readers had a lot to say about our front page story yesterday about widow, Enid Mort who was refused permission for a shiny black headstone in memory of her husband in the graveyard of St Anne’s Church, Turton. Here are a few of their comments
AFTER 41 days the Winter Hill fire is finally out. The "stop message" declaring the fire was out and the fire service could withdraw was sent yesterday afternoon. Access to Winter Hill and Rivington Pike has been reopened and the public are
WANDERERS are hoping to do a double deal for Birmingham City’s Jonathan Grounds and David Stockdale. Talks are underway to bring the Blues pair on loan to the University of Bolton Stadium by the end of the month, although an agreement has not yet
BOLTON Cricket League Under-21s take on their Liverpool Competition counterparts at Farnworth Cricket Club tomorrow, starting at 11am. The Bolton team is: Lewis Haydock (Horwich), Louis Seigne (Eagley), Joe Baldwin (Farnworth SC), Marcus Haydock
LAST week’s picture was an easy one for two of our readers to recognise. George Horrocks had no problem spotting the picture was of the old pavilion at Queens Park as he used to work there as a gardener. Also correct was Ron Wadeson who tells
BOLTON Town Centre is a vibrant place and has been so for as many years as most of us can remember. With its independent shops and stores as well as the bigger national ones it has always been a fascinating place to visit for local folk and those
A GROUP of Farnworth residents say they are living in fear of drug users who have taken over their local park. Residents living close to Harper Green Playing Fields, off Harper Green Road, say the area has been blighted by drug users and prostitutes
SERVICES to adults with learning difficulties are under threat in a looming dispute over pay cuts to staff who work sleep-in shifts. The so-called “top-up” payments are made to staff who work the shifts to ensure their average hourly pay reaches
A MAN'S body has been found after police were called to a brook in Tottington. Officers were called to Keld Close at about 6.05pm on Tuesday to reports that a body had been found in nearby Kirklees Brook. Upon attending, they discovered the
EMERGENCY services were called to the M61 after a car left the carriageway and ended up on the embankment. The accident happened at 6am today, just south of Rivington Services. Fire service said that lorry drivers had stopped to help and the
THE saga of the Moses Gate area disruption began with the electrification of the neighbouring railway in 2015. Overnight engineering works caused massive disruption for people living in the Farnworth and Kearsley areas. Network Rail said ‘essential
PHIL Parkinson believes Josh Magennis can become a terrace favourite with Wanderers. The £200,000 capture from Charlton Athletic opened his account 18 minutes into his debut at West Brom on Saturday and got rave reviews for a hard-working performance
A NEW hydro-electric plant could soon be powering a sewage works if plans get the go-ahead. H2O Power Ltd has applied for permission to install the plant at Bolton Waste Water Treatment works, at Red Rock Lane, in Stoneclough. Proposals for
A SCHOOL will have to pay to clean up the mess left behind by travellers despite the fact its playing field is owned by Bolton Council. Residents says the group left broken glass, dirty nappie, needles and chopped-up trees on land behind St Stephen
RIVINGTON Terraced Gardens has reopened to the public. Access to the popular attraction has been closed off for several weeks after the moorland fire broke out on nearby Winter Hill at the end of June. Staff and volunteers at the heritage site
A 55-year-old Leyland bus was parked in Victoria Square for Bolton Bus Preservation Group’s annual summer visit to the town centre. The 1963 Leyland Atlantean, which lives in Bury Transport Museum, was in front of Bolton Town Hall with nine volunteers
A SOCIAL worker has appeared in court charged with disclosing information about children in care and their carers. Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court heard that 59-year-old Jacqueline McMillan had been using her personal email address instead
LIFE is scuba-super for a Bolton woman who is making a big splash for charity. Leah Bradbury, aged 25, of Little Lever, only learned to dive earlier this year – and has already won her way into the finals of the Miss Scuba UK competition. It
EVERY week police ask readers of The Bolton News for help finding wanted suspects DAVID PEARSON 04/01/98 is wanted on a fail to appear warrant at Bolton Crown court after he walked out of court during a break and prior to being sentenced. He has
A TAXI driver has been suspended after leaving an “inappropriate” message on a customer’s voicemail. Bolton Council’s licensing committee voted to remove his private hire licence for eight weeks after listening to the message and hearing evidence
IN order to help reduce the amount of fly-tipping, it should encourage some of those people if plenty of large communal bins or skips were placed in convenient places throughout the borough. These would also be especially helpful for elderly people
COST and public reality have tended to weed out the most obscure and impractical university degrees in recent years. But, although medieval knitting and its like are no longer available in universities which have to sell a broad spectrum of relevant
IT’S very sad that in the same week two well-known female celebrities have had to justify not having children. First, Hollywood star Jennifer Aniston urged people not to treat childless woman as damaged goods and then British model Kelly Brook reported
THE subject of what constitutes recyclable goods seems to have got people talking recently. Are yoghurt pots, for instance, to go into whatever the local council says is your bin for recycled goods? Neither Bolton nor Bury councils count them as
IT’S a shame that Princess Beatrice and her sister Eugenie’s attempt to get public sympathy about their roles has failed miserably. The Queen’s grand-daughters gave an interview to Vogue magazine saying how hard it was to carve out careers as princesses
YOUNG singer Drew Gudojc certainly gave a good account of herself on popular show The Voice Kids. Now, the 14-year-old from Little Lever says that the ITV talent show really helped her feel more comfortable about herself. She also paid tribute to
HOUSEHOLDERS who endured months of disruption because of rail electrification works and a collapsed bridge have formed a support group in a bid to improve their area. Reporter JOSEPH TIMAN attended their first meeting. THE Friends of
A BOLTON MP is urging good causes to apply for their share of a £3 million funding pot. The money has been raised by players of the People's Postcode Lottery to support projects helping local people. Charities and community groups can get sums
BOLTON West MP Chris Green is looking for nominations for the Parliamentary Pub of the Year award. The award allows pubs to be recognised for their contributions to the area, with each MP being able to nominate one pub from their constituency.
Barb Hackett, who lives near Crompton Way, encouraged the Friends of Moses Gate group to join an organisation she set up two years ago called Bolton Green Umbrella. The umbrella organisation recognises and supports volunteer and community groups
ANOTHER issue raised by several members at the inaugural meeting of Friends of Moses Gate was the impact that the new Sughra Mosque has had on parking in nearby areas including visitors double parking on nearby roads. They raised concerns about
AN MP’s efforts to give pubs a “leg up” is being supported by Little Lever’s Jolly Carter. Landlord and landlady, Steven Bryan and Helen Duffy are pleased to hear their MP Yasmin Qureshi is fighting the corner of local pubs and lobbying the government
AS a teenager Daniel Sukula made a heartfelt plea asking for help from the people of Bolton to stop him and his family from being deported to the Democratic Republic of Congo — a nation in the midst of the a cruel civil war in which he feared he would
A BUSINESS director can now officially call himself a Doctor. Andrew Roberts, managing director of Bury-based communications technology firm, Pennine, has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bolton. The award, which makes
FROM its earliest episodes, Coronation Street fans have loved its battleaxes like Ena Sharples. She of the frowning face, piercing eyes and obligatory hairnet struck terror into more than the families on the cobbles. Ena was am immediate and terrifying
THEY got their points tally for the season up and running on Monday night and, although they were just moments away from taking all three points, Daisy Hill’s manager Brian Hart was delighted with the performance of his young side. The Daisies had
WITH only two weeks remaining of the Men’s League season, many teams still have much to play for. The Division One title has already been settled, with David Lloyd Chorley A undefeated to date; their latest success a 9-0 whitewash against relegated
WANDERERS’ search for a back-up keeper looks set to continue as long-time target Lee Camp was on the verge of signing for Birmingham City last night. Phil Parkinson said last Friday he was expecting to add competition for Ben Alnwick early this
CHUNG-YONG Lee is facing up to leaving England after nine years. The South Korea international is looking at options in Europe, Australia and Eastern Asia after UK work permit regulations made it impossible to consider a return to Wanderers.
