AMIR Khan has sensationally split from his trainer Oliver Harrison. The Bolton boxing star will appoint a top American to guide him to a world-title shot before the end of the year. The 21-year-old, undefeated in 17 fights under the guidance of Harrison
Radcliffe Borough 2 Hyde United 1 RADCLIFFE Borough fought a brilliant rearguard action to stun the Blue Square North club and win the Manchester Cup. Boro took the lead on four minutes at Oldham Athletic's Boundary Park when Hyde's Andy Teague bundled
SAM Allardyce has launched a scathing attack on the way Wanderers have been managed since he left. The former Reebok boss accused his successors of needlessly "trying to fix something that wasn't broken". Allardyce, who guided Bolton from the Championship
Sporting Westhoughton won the Division One title with two games left, and Doffcocker beat Colliers Arms 2-1 to head the Premier Section. In Division Two, Sams Bar beat Yew Tree 3-2 and forced a play-off for the title. In the Premier Division, Colliers
PSYCHIC Pat Jolly is organising a "ghost night" and is appealing to the Bolton public for help. The Irlam-based medium said her charity events are always well attended by people from Bolton. On Saturday June 21 she will be holding a night of ghostly
THE FUNERAL of a Chorley teenager killed in a coach crash in Ecuador took place today. Rebecca Logie was one of five British women - four teenagers and a 26-year-old - who died as they travelled from the country's capital, Quito, to a fishing village
A FIVE-YEAR-OLD was found safe and well after going missing from home. The boy disappeared from a house on Johnson Fold Avenue, Johnson Fold, at around 3.20pm. He was reported missing two hours later and police officers joined in the search. The boy
THIEVES cut phone lines and used a long pole to disable security cameras before making off with about £5,000 from a social club. A cleaner at Over Hulton Conservative Club discovered the break-in yesterday morning. The burglars had forced the front
POLICE have launched an investigation after three mini-buses went up in flames. Firefighters were called to the car park at the Probation Service headquarters in Gloucester Street, Atherton, at around 9.15pm on Sunday night. Three 12-seater buses were
AINSWORTH A took the Division Two Cup with an excellent 3-1 victory over Garswood United at Eagley Sports Club. Ainsworth started the brighter and Ian Bentley gave them an early lead before he produced a fine run to lay on the second for Mark Lindsay
Vickerstown 0 Stoneclough 2 STONECLOUGH ensured the West Lancashire League's First Division title came back to Kearsley with a fine victory over their close rivals. Presidents Cup winners Stoneclough took control and produced some quality football
FIGURES show that a staggering 33,688 animals were rescued in the north of England last year. The latest figures have been released by the RSPCA in its annual report. And this week marks the organisation's largest yearly awareness and fundraising drive
TOWN centre crime fighters are launching a new campaign to stop elderly women falling victim to thieves and pickpockets. Police have teamed up with Bolton Council and the town centre's Business Crime Partnership for the awareness campaign. Together
IT is a sad fact of life that there will always be mistakes when human beings are involved in the judgement of others. That is why I have some sympathy with the aims of Mojo, the Miscarriages of Justice Organisation. Mojo wants more support for wrongly-convicted
AN accountancy firm has advised in the £2 million sale of a recruitment company. Chorley Old Road accountant Cowgill Holloway has advised Aintree-based Assist Support Services Group on its acquisition of Temploy Recruitment Services, in the multi-million
A DELEGATION from the Turkish Prime Minister has visited Bolton to promote investment in the country. Levent Seckin, head of the Turkish Government's Investment Promotion Department, gave a speech at the Technical Innovation Centre in Farnworth, to
Prime Minister Gordon Brown made a surprise visit to Bolton at lunchtime. He was on the campaign trail for Thursday's local elections, with the tightly fought Bolton Council being regarded a crucially important by all the major parties. He met up
Fred's Dibnah's statue finally arrived in Bolton town centre at lunchtime. The eight feet tall, bronze statue was transported to town today from the foundry in Wales and will make its official debut at noon tomorrow on what would have been Fred's 70th
BELGIAN street punk band Mise En Scene will play the Blue Boar, on Bradshawgate, on Thursday, May 1. They will be supported by Bolton's only ska-punk band, The Minions. Minions front man Matthew Leonard said: "Should be a great gig. Paul Makin, the
TO The Bones' single Sharkies Bone Symphony will now be released via Medici Records on July 7. Described as "like the Pixies mauling Motorhead", the video for the song premiered at Bolton's Kico on March 20. Featuring 50 litres of red paint and a bevvy
LOCAL unsigned bands including Bolton's Code Zero and Bury's Breakdown will play at July's School's Out For Summer festival, in Radcliffe. The event will be held at Radcliffe Civic Hall on July 12, and will be headlined by Heaven's Basement, who recently
THE step-father of the man rumoured to be Amy Winehouse's new boyfriend has revealed his drug-hating son could only be a positive influence' on the troubled musician. Alex Haines, aged 22, from Gloucestershire, an assistant to Winehouse's manager, is
FROM busking the subways of Hammersmith to cult icon status, The Men They Couldn't Hang are celebrating 24 years together with a tour that takes in Bury Met on Saturday. First appearing as support to the then Pogue Mahone - indeed, some of the band members
NICK Cave has described his latest album, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! as an "exorcism". He said: "This new record was really hard to write. It took a really long time. I mean, lyrically, it took a really long time. "It took a month to sort of clear the decks
IT was a case of lights, camera, Kooks when the Brighton boys rocked-up at The Apollo in Manchester. Because, not only were they playing to a packed audience of die-hard fans but an ITV film crew were on the sidelines filming for the new series of police
CANCER survivors from across Bolton will lead an all-night festival of hope and remembrance in a united effort to raise vital funds for charity. Local organisers of Cancer Research UK's first Relay For Life in Bolton are asking for teams from all sectors
LOCAL people's views are on the quality of their health service are being sought. Bosses at the Primary Care Trust have drafted a single equality scheme covering all aspects of equality and diversity, with action plans to ensure the aims of the project
BOLTON Council is using crime-fighting and anti-terror laws to spy on litter louts and people who let their dogs foul in public places. The council authorised 124 directed surveillance operations to investigate noise nuisance, littering, dog-fouling,
BOLTON singer-songwriter Simon Aldred is headlining a music festival in Manchester next month. The man behind the band Cherry Ghost, will top the bill at the Queering The Pitch Music Festival at the Manchester Academy on Saturday, May 10. The festival
THREE Bolton-based multi-millionaires have made it on to this year's Sunday Times Rich Llist of the country's top 1,000 most wealthy people. The Warburton family was at the top of the pack coming in at 199th on the list with a fortune of £430 million
Police and fire chiefs are probing a blaze at a scrapyard in Royton which has resulted in the closure of local railway line. Police are appealing for witnesses following the fire on Meek Street, Royton which was discovered at about 9.30pm last night
NOTE: NOT SURE WHO MR DOWSON IS> CAN'T FIND HIM IN CUTTINGS Observing the law is a complex matter of our desire for something (eg a faster journey, other people's property, heroin, child porn on the internet, sex with children) balanced against our
I FELT the need to write in response the "We do this because we need to" letter, because I am shocked and appalled that the "concerned mother" in question claims she "needs" to be a prostitute. Surely there's other jobs you can do? Even if you have to
Is this council serious about recycling or am I missing something? For the past three collection days (in this case Thursday), my gardening waste bin has been outside my back gate by 7.30am but has been brought back in by 6pm unemptied. It is now full
A COUPLE spent two weeks on a dream cruise - without their clothes. Gordon and Dorothy Bradley's luggage was lost in the chaos at Heathrow Airport's Terminal Five. The couple, from Winslow Road, Hunger Hill, spent £4,500 on the Caribbean cruise which
I AM writing in response to an article that was featured in The Bolton News on Friday, March 21 - New Rules for Parking to Begin. I live around the Chorley Old Road area of Bolton and I regularly walk with my baby in his pram around the local area. I
IF children take up smoking at an early age, isn't it more likely that they've been exposed to cigarette smoke at home or while travelling in a car, rather than they've seen packets of cigarettes on show in a shop? If passive smoke harms adults in pubs
I HAVE read with interest the adverts put in your paper about the increase in precept from Horwich Council and it is strange that Cliff Morris has not checked what we provide that his Labour controlled council at Bolton doesn't for Horwich residents before
A wanted man who was was found guilty of assault in his absence has handed himself in to police. Craig Fitzpatrick, aged 21, of Lane End Road, Green End, Manchester, was found guilty in his absence of assault causing actual bodily harm ater failing
Congestion charging (taxation, nothing more than yet another excuse to rob the taxpayer of even more money) is nothing more than a con trick. Look at how much of our money the government has thrown at Northern Rock. Yes, that little bank that nobody
A man is in hospital after being stabbed in the neck in Salford. Police were informed by staff at Hope Hospital in Salford at about 8.25pm on Saturday that a 20-year-old man had been admitted with a stab wound to the left side of his neck. Inquiries
TODAY'S photograph is one of the most distinctive and better known buildings in Bolton. This is possibly as much to do with the amount of time we all spend sitting in our cars on Marsden Road at the nearby traffic light junction with St George's Road
JAMES have added a second Manchester Central date to their We Are Sound Winter Tour. The band will play the venue, formerly known as the G-Mex, on December 19 and 20. Tickets are availabel from gigsandtours.com or by ringing 0871 2200 260.
DOG lovers from across Bolton flocked to Moses Gate Country Park to see which pretty pooch would win Best in Show. Fifty dogs were entered into the Hearing Dogs Fun Show, organised by the Bolton and District branch of the national deaf charity Hearing
THE Green Party is campaigning against the addition of flouride to water supplies. Advocates of flouridisation say it will help to turn around poor dental health as flouride, despite effectively being a poison, can help to strengthen teeth. But the
PERHAPS you can tell us old Boltonians why the Primark threat to close and leave Bolton was not met with the only answer that fits. Tell them they can leave anytime! Never mind how much trade they will bring in if they get their own way. Work out what
This is the fourth in our series of reports highlighting the manifestos of the political parties in Bolton ahead of Thursday's local elections. Today it is the turn of the Green Party group. Everyone knows that the Green Party is the party of the environment
PLEASE can I get some feedback on the question of children retrieving their footballs from our gardens? Am I being unreasonable in asking them to just knock on the door and then we would gladly return the ball? Instead, we go to the window and find
I have just read a second, long letter that really speaks of the great naivety of some readers. I refer to the strong rebuke - again - to Rob Booth over his published photograph of the police officer in his police car who ignored the parking regulations
So, I attended a technical school ("First chapter of a school story", April 19). This is news to me. I attended Hayward Bilateral School from 1962-1967, having passed the 11-plus examination. There were six forms and these were divided into two groups
So, I attended a technical school ("First chapter of a school story", April 19). This is news to me. I attended Hayward Bilateral School from 1962-1967, having passed the 11-plus examination. There were six forms and these were divided into two groups
HOUSEBUYERS early in this millennium would no doubt have been pleased to see their property values soar, smugly ignoring the later buyers struggling to get on the housing ladder. Now the boot is on the other foot, they are now moaning about the end of
please allow me to issue my two penn'orth-worth concerning the recent debate concerning the "grilles" covering most business windows in our, and surrounding, town centres and other issues. Last year, my wife and I spent some time on a break in the fair
CLLR Ebrahim Adia (Saturday, April 12) says Bolton Council, development partners and independent commentators are all confident about the future of Bolton town centre. But as I waded through the turgid marketing-speak of his letter, I realised it failed
DURING the summer of 2003 I reported in the column I was writing at the time - the one that ran down the right hand side of the page - that I had watched Lancashire lose to Derbyshire in one of the new Twenty20 cricket games and agreed with a fellow spectator
IF you saw this page last week you might remember that I poked gentle fun at Yorkshire folk who tend to look on the miserable side of life. It will be interesting to see how many people over there bother to see the latest film by acclaimed director Mike
HERE is a short item in appreciation of the hard work parents put in when raising young children. Grandma and Granddad Calvert took charge of Lucy (four and a half) and Emma (six months) while mum and dad went away for a welcome weekend break with friends
A FRIEND of mine told me last week that he had watched the BAFTA awards show on television and had only seen two of the successful programmes. I told him that I had exactly the same thought after reading about the winners and that I intended to share
THE other day I noticed a plastic bag in front of the shelter where I was waiting for a bus into Bolton town centre. A closer inspection revealed that it contained dog mess. Somebody had scraped it off the pavement, put it in a bag, tied a knot and
IT is a sad fact of life that there will always be mistakes when human beings are involved in the judgement of others. That is why I have some sympathy with the aims of Mojo, the Miscarriages of Justice Organisation. Mojo wants more support for wrongly-convicted
THE other day I noticed a plastic bag in front of the shelter where I was waiting for a bus into Bolton town centre. A closer inspection revealed that it contained dog mess. Somebody had scraped it off the pavement, put it in a bag, tied a knot and
After reading the article "Strike to close college" (April 17), I am astounded the UCU wants a six per cent pay rise to bring lecturers' salaries in line with teachers. Under different circumstances, I would be all in favour. Lecturers should be paid
I AM writing regarding Mrs G Brockbank's letter, "Footpaths should be for everyone" (April 22), I have to say that I think it is sad that her letter to The Bolton News had to be written at all. In common with many people in our town, Mrs Brockbank has
WELL! Well! If we did not know before, we do now, that there is an election on May 1. So the Bolton Council Labour leaders have promised to start negotiations with Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Authority for a shuttle bus round our town centre
I WONDER if any of the parties contesting the Bolton Council election has a plan for dealing with our appalling roads and fast disappearing road markings? W Morgan Regent Road Lostock
IT'S time we put an end to the lies and deceit being peddled by the Labour group on the council and by the Labour local election candidates. They are desperately trying to dig themselves out of the hole they started digging months ago when they declared
WHATEVER I write will not express my family's appreciation for the love and care my mum, Kathleen Parkes, received at the Royal Bolton Hospital. From the emergency staff and services to the nurses and porters on, in particular, wards D1, D4 and E3, their
THE power of sport for doing good is in danger of being sidelined. While the Olympics are providing a high profile platform for the tensions between politics and sport, young people who are at risk of offending tell us sport transforms their lives.
SEVERAL weeks ago I took my granddaughter to the Octagon Theatre. What a splendid evening we had and what a super theatre your town possesses. It was one of the worst evenings weather wise, rain was lashing down and, for some reason, almost all the parking
GARY Megson believes Wanderers will enjoy long-term benefits if they can deliver the short-term results they need to survive in the Premiership. With two games to go and just a single point keeping them out of the drop zone, it is essential they beat
STELIOS knows he will not be around to reap the rewards, but, wherever he ends up, he could have the satisfaction of knowing he has left a priceless legacy at the Reebok. The Greece international has long known that he will be surplus to requirements
TWO men suffered suspected fractured cheek bones after a fight at a pub. Four men were involved in the fight in the car park of the Queen Anne pub in Junction Road, Deane, at 10.30pm on Saturday. A 43-year-old man and a 44-year-old man both suffered
A FATHER whose five-year-old daughter trains at a Bolton kick boxing club, has accused the makers of a controversial documentary of being "unfair". But Darren Flanagan, aged 38, from Hindley, says he has not let Miah back into the fight ring since the
A BUSINESSMAN from Bolton, who owns a string of petrol stations, has warned motorists not to panic buy fuel. His call comes as oil workers at the Grangemouth refinery in Scotland began a two-day strike yesterday. Staff at Scotland's main fuel supplier
KEVIN Nolan insisted last night that there is a collective determination at the Reebok to prove their doubters wrong. Wanderers have been riled by the critics, who claim they would bid them "good riddance" if they were relegated from the Premier League
TOTTENHAM coach Gus Poyet blamed a loss of concentration over a half-time substitution for the goal that earned Wanderers a precious point at White Hart Lane. Stelios - one of two switches Gary Megson made during the interval - scored within 24 seconds
