IT was a miracle May for a teenager whose packed lunch saved his life.

Reece Jefferies broke his back after he crashed his motorcycle into a car in Bolton Road.

However, the 18-year-old’s packed lunch which was strapped to his back, took a lot of the impact and saved him from even more severe injury.

Bolton’s Civic trust revealed its own plans for the vision of what Moor Lane and Cheadle Square in the town centre could look like. It released an artist’s impression of how it saw the £50 million extension to the University of Bolton including accommodation for 700 students on the existing Moor Lane bus station and in other areas to the rear of Le Mans Crescent and Blackhorse Street.

A devastated couple hoped to raise £2,000 to give their four-month-old baby daughter a funeral fit for a princess.

Baby Daisy Errington was born alongside her sister Rosy, at 28 weeks premature but died from septicaemia on January 8. Her parents Charlene and Stephen, of Farnworth, launched a fundraising page to give her a princess send-off with a horse drawn carriage and pink coffin.

A teenage cricket star collapsed after suffering a brain haemorrhage during a match. Hashim Akhtar, aged 18, was put in an induced coma following the incident at Astley Bridge Cricket Club.