Stories for 23 September 2006
Andrew Mosley
THE country's highways bosses are close to success. Providing, of course, that achieving gridlock is their intention. more...
Betting Tips
Baltic King has already enjoyed a successful season and can cap it off with a first Group success in the John Guest Diadem Stakes at Ascot on Sunday. more...
Blackburn
AN EAST Lancashire school has become the first in the county to make China's official language Mandarin a compulsory subject. more...
BLUNDERING work-men had to dig up a prestige paving project in order to re-fit a drain after it was discovered it was too small. more...
Blackburn Hawks
Blackburn Hawks anticipate a difficult challenge tonight as they prepare to face Scottish champions Fife Flyers their second Northern Ice Hockey League fixture. more...
Bolton News
A MUM could have given her toddler a potentially lethal dose of medicine because of a medical centre blunder. more...
A CHIP shop owner and his wife fought off an armed robber with hot mushy peas and boiling water when their shop came under attack. more...
FLYTIPPERS illegally dumping chemicals could be responsible for the death of 10,000 fish in a Bolton brook, it has been revealed. more...
Tens of thousands of anti-war supporters were expected to take part in a huge demonstration in Manchester today aimed at protesting against Government policies in the Middle East and against nuclear weapons. more...
A 64-YEAR-OLD bus driver has died after his vehicle with a lorry on the M66. more...
MOTORISTS who want to skip car parking charges at the Royal Bolton Hospital are clogging up nerarby roads. more...
THE pressure is on as Max the Middlebrook Moose gets ready for the biggest sporting event in the mascot calendar. more...
A SADISTIC bodybuilder whose trademark act of brutality was to throttle women by lifting them up in the air by their necks has been jailed for life. more...
BOLTON funnyman Peter Kay has been nominated for a top comedy award. more...
A PAIR of 80-year-olds have raised almost £500 for The Bolton News Garden of Tranquillity appeal. more...
A PAIR of 80-year-olds have raised almost £500 for The Bolton News Garden of Tranquillity appeal. more...
A PAIR of 80-year-olds have raised almost £500 for The Bolton News Garden of Tranquillity appeal. more...
A PAIR of 80-year-olds have raised almost £500 for The Bolton News Garden of Tranquillity appeal. more...
A PAIR of 80-year-olds have raised almost £500 for The Bolton News Garden of Tranquillity appeal. more...
A SCHOOL for children with behavioural difficulties is to be opened in a former police station despite residents' fears. more...
PRAYER timetables which are printed with helpline numbers for people who want to stop smoking are being handed out at Bolton Mosques in a bid to help Muslims quit the habit during Ramadan. more...
A JILTED lover committed suicide by taking an overdose, an inquest heard. more...
IT was ready, steady, cook for pupils who swapped their classrooms for the kitchen. more...
Centurions' Updates
LEIGH Centurions may still be coming to terms with their shock play-off exit, but they have already started building for next season. more...
LEIGH Centurions may still be coming to terms with their shock play-off exit, but they have already started building for next season. more...
Clarets News
GIFTON Noel-Williams has been taken off the transfer-list following his return to Burnley's starting line-up. more...
Cricket Round-Up
HEATON could have a bright future judging from the outstanding performance of one of their junior sides in a county competition. more...
Fans' Verdict
I SAW Tuesdays' BBC programme about Big Sam and six or seven un-named managers who supposedly took bungs'. But where was the proof? more...
Here we are again in the media frenzied "You scratch my back, I'll stab yours" world of Premiership football. more...
I don't believe a word of the "Big Sam in bungs" hype, but less inclined to be so forgiving over the chairman touting Jay Jay. more...
Garden Of Tranquility
A PAIR of 80-year-olds have raised almost £500 for The Bolton News Garden of Tranquillity appeal. more...
Health News
A TOP Bolton eye doctor says he has found evidence linking smoking to blindness in young people as well as older patients. more...
CANCER sufferers are being asked to help improve their treatment. more...
Lancashire Ccc
AT the start of the season, Lancashire all-rounder Tom Smith was just hoping to get some experience in the Red Rose County's first team. more...
Latest Sport
LEIGH Centurions may still be coming to terms with their shock play-off exit, but they have already started building for next season. more...
LEIGH Centurions may still be coming to terms with their shock play-off exit, but they have already started building for next season. more...
Padiham News
A POWER cut caused a bank's security systems to fail - leaving the branch unlocked when it was closed. more...
Rovers News
MORTEN Gamst Pedersen normally tops the scoring charts rather than the music charts. more...
Blackburn Rovers' Brett Emerton will line up against the side that tried to sign him at the Riverside today. more...
Blackburn Rovers' Brett Emerton will line up against the side that tried to sign him at the Riverside today. more...
Wanderers News
KEVIN Nolan aims to lead Wanderers to victory at Portsmouth on Monday as an outward sign of their wholehearted support for Sam Allardyce. more...
JUSSI Jaaskelainen is confident Nicolas Anelka will live up to his record-breaking transfer fee. more...
JUSSI Jaaskelainen is confident Nicolas Anelka will live up to his record-breaking transfer fee. more...
BOLTON Wanderers have banned the BBC in protest at the screening of the Panorama documentary "Undercover: Football's Dirty Secrets". more...
We Say
FLYTIPPING is a scourge of modern society. It results in the ruination of beauty spots and, even more seriously, poses a danger to our wildlife. more...
HOSPITAL car parking is a serious issue that really sets the pulses racing. more...
You Say
I refer to the story "Hospital saves historic window", (The Bolton News, September 9) about Dr Victor St Clair Lucas. more...
ON behalf of the Rotary Club of Bolton, may I thank the people of this town for their great support to our Organ Donor Appeal on Saturday, September 16. more...
REGARDING Mr Kozlowski's letter about the fate of Poland in 1945, ("Churchill is to blame for Polish woes", Letters, September 20) I think it is unfair to blame Mr Churchill for the Soviets occupying Poland after the war. more...
WHAT happens to our waste after tins, glass, bottles and plastics have been washed and put outside for collection? more...
I'M sure many of my neighbours would like to join me in saying a big thank you to the lady who took the trouble to clear away broken glass off the pavement from a smashed telephone kiosk on the corner of Devonshire Road and Lincoln Road, Heaton, on Tuesday, September 19. She has most probably saved a child, adult or animal from a potential injury. more...
I'M sure many of my neighbours would like to join me in saying a big thank you to the lady who took the trouble to clear away broken glass off the pavement from a smashed telephone kiosk on the corner of Devonshire Road and Lincoln Road, Heaton, on Tuesday, September 19. more...
Once again we have a resident of Horwich, (M Holt) complaining about the traffic calming measures in Crown Lane/Station Road. more...
THE letter from Mr Boatwright (September 15) "Residents on lane want quieter life", did not say that reduction in access to the A6 along Crown Lane means increased traffic along Chorley New Road. more...
John O'Connor's idea of 20mph zones is lovely, but it won't work in the real world, unless there are speed cameras everywhere. more...
The Bolton News News
A MUM could have given her toddler a potentially lethal dose of medicine because of a medical centre blunder.
more...
A CHIP shop owner and his wife fought off an armed robber with hot mushy peas and boiling water when their shop came under attack.
more...
FLYTIPPERS illegally dumping chemicals could be responsible for the death of 10,000 fish in a Bolton brook, it has been revealed.
more...
Tens of thousands of anti-war supporters were expected to take part in a huge demonstration in Manchester today aimed at protesting against Government policies in the Middle East and against nuclear weapons.
more...
THE fiancee of a man killed in a horror motorway smash told today of the life they had been planning together.
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A 64-YEAR-OLD bus driver has died after his vehicle with a lorry on the M66.
more...
MOTORISTS who want to skip car parking charges at the Royal Bolton Hospital are clogging up nerarby roads.
more...
THE pressure is on as Max the Middlebrook Moose gets ready for the biggest sporting event in the mascot calendar.
more...
A SADISTIC bodybuilder whose trademark act of brutality was to throttle women by lifting them up in the air by their necks has been jailed for life.
more...
BOLTON funnyman Peter Kay has been nominated for a top comedy award.
more...
A PAIR of 80-year-olds have raised almost £500 for The Bolton News Garden of Tranquillity appeal.
more...
A SCHOOL for children with behavioural difficulties is to be opened in a former police station despite residents' fears.
more...
A TOP Bolton eye doctor says he has found evidence linking smoking to blindness in young people as well as older patients.
more...
CANCER sufferers are being asked to help improve their treatment.
more...
PRAYER timetables which are printed with helpline numbers for people who want to stop smoking are being handed out at Bolton Mosques in a bid to help Muslims quit the habit during Ramadan.
more...
A JILTED lover committed suicide by taking an overdose, an inquest heard.
more...
IT was ready, steady, cook for pupils who swapped their classrooms for the kitchen.
more...
The Bolton News Sport
LEIGH Centurions may still be coming to terms with their shock play-off exit, but they have already started building for next season.
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