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  • Record Numbers Quit Smoking

    A RECORD number of smokers have stubbed out the habit in Bolton. Figures reveal that the number of people who have quit smoking has almost doubled from 999 between March 2003 and March 2004 to 1,697 over the following 12 months. And today the anti-smoking

  • Battle for Safe Seat

    NO candidate fighting to represent Bolton in the House of Commons can be more confident of being returned to Parliament than Brian Iddon. He has held the safest of Labour's seats in the borough for the past eight years an area of Bolton the party has

  • The dead deserve respect

    I TOTALLY agree with the comments of Jack Sinclair (April 26), regarding how much the do-gooders have ruined this country. So much so that vandals can damage property, and even graves in a cemetery, and are able to claim damages if they injure themselves

  • Save this nature reserve

    READERS may remember the campaign just over a year ago to prevent the demolition of Newfield on Grange Road, Bromley Cross, and construction of town houses on the site on the edge of the Jumbles Reservoir. The planning committee refused the application

  • Chelsea leave Sam in the Dark

    SAM Allardyce was locked in a guessing game with Jose Mourinho, in the build-up to the Reebok showdown. Rarely has the Wanderers boss been so helpless in predicting a rival manager's team selection, but he admitted today that he did not have a clue which

  • Freeing up hospital beds should be a priority

    I WOULD like to make a few remarks about the article, Beds crisis hits Royal Bolton Hospital". I have recently had an operation at the Royal Bolton Hospital. It's a condition I've had to put up with for about 18 months and has caused me to be in great