Stories for 17 June 2006
Accrington
BUILDING work is set to begin on a new £6million health centre in Accrington later this month. more...
Andrew Mosley
CLEARLY the guy in the spotty cravat I had just met for the first time since leaving school thought he was doing somewhat better than me in life. more...
Around The Greens With Thumb Peg
ASTLEY Bridge veterans Mike Combes and Les Donlan won the Fraser-Huyton Pairs ttile at Bolton Park Vets Bowling Club. more...
Betting Tips
Racing Preview in full. more...
Blackburn
A MOTHER has launched a campaign to raise money for the hospital staff who are keeping her terminally-ill son alive. more...
Bolton Darts Round-Up
ASTLEY Bridge veterans Mike Combes and Les Donlan won the Fraser-Huyton Pairs ttile at Bolton Park Vets Bowling Club. more...
Bolton News
A MAN who raped a 16-year-old girl in a Bolton town centre nightclub was today starting a five-year prison sentence. more...
LOLLIPOP lady Jean Gorringe has a new title Member of the British Empire. more...
THICK plumes of black smoke could be seen for miles after arsonists set fire to a disused social club. more...
AN eight-year-old girl has set a reading record by engrossing herself in 124 library books in under three months. more...
Peter Kay has ambitions to appear in a Harry Potter film. more...
Peter Kay has ambitions to appear in a Harry Potter film. more...
THIS is the man who climbed up to the roof of his home to fix his TV aerial and then found himself too frightened to come down. more...
THREE men escaped with money after an armed robbery at a bookmakers in Moss Side, Manchester. more...
A TOP Radio 2 DJ from Bolton has joined a campaign to save a popular local pub and music venue. more...
PLANS to build a new taxi office in Turton have been approved. more...
A SPECIAL meeting of Bolton Council is to be held after councillors accused the Labour leadership of getting their figures wrong over the reintroduction of weekly bin collections. more...
GREEN-fingered Brandon Hobbs is flying the flag for Bolton at a national plant competition in Birmingham tomorrow. more...
NOT all football clubs have the millions of the Premiership to splash out on new players or stadiums. more...
TWO schoolgirls were sexually assaulted as they waited for a bus. more...
TWENTY drivers face losing their licence after being caught during a World Cup drink-drive crackdown. more...
LITTLE gem Grace Mae Taylor sparkles with health and happiness despite living with a rare liver condition. more...
TREASURES at a new exhibition at the town's Museum and Art Gallery are helping to inspire children in Bolton to learn. more...
A NEW book on the history of the Labour Party was launched in Bolton by MPs Ruth Kelly and Brian Iddon. more...
A CARE home manageress who swindled more than £5,000 from her council bosses has escaped jail but was ordered to pay the money back. more...
THE life of a toddler who took a lethal overdose of his mother's methadone could have been saved if he had been checked more frequently while he was in hospital, an inquest heard. more...
A FORMER army commando from Worsley has been presented with one of France's highest honours for his role in one of the most heroic raids of World War Two. more...
MANY people think the Prince's Trust is just an organisation which hands out grants to young people with new businesses. However, that is not the case, as one beneficiary, Leanne Gilbert, tells Wes Wright. more...
APPRECIATIVE grandchildren, sons, daughters and friends of extra-special grandmas are helping Bolton's Mayor to find the town's Grandmother of the Year. more...
Centurions' Updates
IAN Millward is back where it all began. more...
IAN Millward is back where it all began. more...
Clarets News
LEGENDARY Burnley physio Jimmy Holland paid one final visit to Turf Moor yesterday. more...
LEGENDARY Burnley physio Jimmy Holland paid one final visit to Turf Moor yesterday. more...
Cricket Round-Up
THE idea of a merger between the Bolton League and Association appears to be gaining some momentum. more...
Education
A TEACHER whose finger was dislocated by one of her pupils today shrugged off the attack', insisting: "I was back teaching the same afternoon." more...
Gig Guide
THE band behind the greatest football song ever are coming to Blackburn to headline the annual Arts in the Park event. more...
Lancashire League
TAMA Canning makes an emotional return to Thorneyholme Road tomorrow as Haslingden travel to face Accrington. more...
Latest Sport
IAN Millward is back where it all began. more...
WIGAN Warriors face a must-win clash with fellow strugglers Catalan Dragons tomorrow night, boosted by the return of fans hero Kris Radlinski. more...
Read all your local sports results and information in full. more...
IAN Millward is back where it all began. more...
Ribble Valley News
A pensioner has helped to set up a forum in an attempt to give the older residents of the Ribble Valley a voice on local issues. more...
Rovers News
BLACKBURN Rovers midfielder Brett Emerton has been hailed as an unsung hero by Australia as they prepare to face Brazil in Munich tomorrow. more...
BRYAN Douglas today paid tribute to former Blackburn Rovers favourite Eddie Crossan, who died earlier this week at the age of 80. more...
Stars From The Bolton Area
Peter Kay has ambitions to appear in a Harry Potter film. more...
Wanderers News
DIETMAR Hamann is having second thoughts about joining Wanderers, according to reports in Liverpool. more...
We Say
FOR many years the Queen's birthday honours list has come under criticism for handing out gongs to the already well-rewarded, such as footballers, film stars and politicians. more...
IN these days of iPods, X-Boxes and DVDs it is great to hear of eight year-old Ellie Duckworth's fantastic achievement of reading 124 books in three months. more...
DYLAN Lomax's death from asthma was a tragedy. The four-year-old Bolton youngster had been diagnosed as suffering from mild asthma but died only 10 minutes after being admitted as an emergency to the Royal Bolton Hospital. Such deaths are rare but they do happen. Gayle McBain reports. more...
You Say
I write in response to Cllr Peel's letter of June 15 and to clarify the Conservative position for dealing with waste. more...
According to the story on the halting of the return of the weekly grey bin collection, Cllr Stuart Lever says that they would introduce bins for the recyclable waste (plastics, glass, tins), which would be emptied only once a month. more...
The Mayoress and myself have been in office for just over a month now and we are enjoying every moment of the time we are spending as Mayor and Mayoress of Bolton, not least because we are meeting so many kind and welcoming people within the borough. more...
I have known Cllr Wilkinson for fifteen years and feel that it is important that people should know what an excellent councillor David is. more...
