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  • I'm A Celebrity returns with first wave of challenges

    I'M A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! returned to television screens tonight — this year starring former Brain of Bolton Anne Hegerty. Anne, aged 60, found herself a little tearful after the first round of challenges. “I’m really close to

  • REGIONAL: Man dies in M62 motorway fall

    A MAN has died after falling from a bridge on the M62 this morning, police have confirmed. The motorway was closed throughout the day while emergency services work at the scene, at junction 22.  Inspector Tom Harrison, of West Yorkshire Police

  • Emma Taylor adds colour to the working day

    A CHANCE introduction to colour and style consultants, House of Colour, added much needed colour into Emma Taylor’s otherwise grey, navy and black corporate wear. Now she has gone on to owning her own business as as a confident colour and style

  • Bat used in attack on car in Bolton

    A BAT is believed to have been used to smash up a car in the street early on Saturday. The Bolton News reported yesterday when a man and woman were arrested after the car was attacked at around 8am. The pair were taken into custody at the scene

  • More warehouses ready at Logistics North

    SIX new warehouses have been completed in the second phase of Harworth Group's Logistics North site. Two of the units at Multiply — a 270,848 sq ft joint venture between Harworth and the Lancashire County Pension Fund — are already let on long-term

  • Cafe is making sure no one is alone at Christmas

    A CAFE is making sure its community is not alone at Christmas. The Atrium Cafe at Ryder's Farm, Manchester Road, Kearsley is providing breakfast on Christmas morning from 10am. Call the cafe to arrange on 07503105365 or 07944643617. Transport

  • eBay champions make £16k for charity in a year

    A BOLTON-based charity has won a prestigious eBay award for its inspirational work locally and nationally. Families and Babies, based in Tonge Moor Road, helps promote and support breastfeeding mothers by providing home visits, support groups and

  • Greater Manchester Police to use drones to follow people home

    DRONES could follow yobs back to their homes as part of a new police trial to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour. Greater Manchester Police is forming a new drone unit and is currently training officers to use eye-in-the-sky technology to thwart

  • LETTER: Parking pressures at Overdale Crematorium

    I HAVE attended Overdale many times to pay respects to friends and relatives (too many times) and I expect that the number of visits will increase as more friends and relatives age. Our friend's final curtain was at the West Chapel. It appeared

  • Home Bargains is shutting on Boxing Day - and here's why

    Discount retailer Home Bargains has announced that it will be closed on Boxing Day this year. The company, which has outlets nationwide, informed both shoppers and employees via social media that all stores would not be opening on December 26.

  • TRAVEL REVIEW: Discovering one of the Caribbean's hottest hotels

    STEPPING off the plane in Barbados, I’m hit by the warmth. Not just the 30-degree heat, though that’s very welcome when you’ve flown in from rain-battered Britain; it’s the friendliness of the people that really stands out. Barbados - the easternmost

  • New project helping pregnant women to quit smoking

    A NEW project run by Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is helping pregnant women quit smoking for good. BabyClear was successfully run in the North-east and has recently started being piloted by the Trust with specialist staff based at Ingleside Birth

  • CHRIS BRAMAH: Physical activity can help recovery after cancer

    MORE than one in three of us will get cancer. For most of us it will be the toughest and scariest fights we could and will ever face. In the past few years, a number of people around me have been affected by cancer in one way or another, two of these

  • Manchester incident was not a terrorist attack

    POLICE have reassured people that an incident at Manchester's Printworks last night was not a terrorist attack. There were originally fears that it was a copycat of the Westminster Bridge attack when a vehicle deliberately drove at pedestrians,