Bolton news

• Nottingham Forest 1-1 Preston North End

  14-12-2016 23:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An own goal from Preston goalkeeper Chris Maxwell gives Nottingham Forest a point at the City Ground.
  
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• Bonds of Elswick ice cream parlour closes after 70 years

  14-12-2016 22:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  After seven decades an ice cream parlour in a Lancashire village is closing down.
  
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• Big city schools hit in funding shake-up

  14-12-2016 20:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Funding changes for schools will see less for the cities and more money for schools in the suburbs and shires.
  
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• Motorway crash causing rush hour delays

  14-12-2016 19:13
  
  THERE is very slow traffic on the M61 southbound following an earlier accident.
  
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• Octagon CEO takes centre stage at curry club

  14-12-2016 18:32
  
  THE Octagon Theatre’s chief executive Roddy Gauld talked about the crucial role the arts have to play in society when he was guest speaker at the Bolton Professionals Curry club lunch at Spice Valley in the town centre yesterday.
  
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• Woman sexually assaulted as she walks dogs

  14-12-2016 18:00
  
  A WOMAN has been sexually assaulted as she walked her family’s dogs in Atherton.
  
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• Wanderers star pays Christmas visit to family of brave tot battling brain tumour

  14-12-2016 17:36
  
  BOLTON Wanderers defender David Wheater was caught red-handed ‘breaking in' to Tonge Moor home yesterday morning.
  
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• GALLERY: School photos from 1975 reveal how pupils voted on the Common Market

  14-12-2016 14:48
  
  THIS week we take a trip back 41 years to the mid-1970s to see what school pupils were up to in Bolton.
  
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• Mystery men banged on door, abused and threatened householder

  14-12-2016 13:11
  
  POLICE are appealing for help to trace three mystery house callers who banged on the front door of a home and abused and threatened the occupant on the doorstep.
  
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• Web wizard of Oz swaps Bolton for Melbourne

  14-12-2016 13:09
  
  A WEB guru is swapping Bolton for Melbourne as part of an audacious move to expand his digital marketing agency.
  
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• Meeting over controversial homes plans

  14-12-2016 13:05
  
  CONCERNED residents are invited to another public meeting regarding major house building plans.
  
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• Bolton Wanderers: Ken Anderson hopes to resolve Dean Holdsworth ownership issue - BBC Sport

  14-12-2016 13:04
  
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  Bolton Wanderers: Ken Anderson hopes to resolve Dean Holdsworth ownership issue
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  They face the threat of administration unless a deal is struck between Anderson and director Dean Holdsworth. The pair led the consortium that bought the club for £7.5m, but Anderson is now seeking to become the sole owner. He told BBC Radio ...
  
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• Police drop Strictly's Gorka Marquez Blackpool attack probe

  14-12-2016 12:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A police probe into an alleged assault by a gang on a Strictly Come Dancing star is dropped.
  
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• Action against abuse of women and girls

  14-12-2016 12:19
  
  COMMUNITIES stood up to the ongoing abuse of women through a series of events designed to throw the spotlight on domestic violence in all forms.
  
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• Work starts on new 3G sports pitch

  14-12-2016 11:55
  
  BOLTON Council has announced the start of work on a new 3G pitch in Westhoughton, to support participation in sports, and promote health and wellbeing amongst young people and adults.
  
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• Construction under way at homes site

  14-12-2016 11:49
  
  CONSTRUCTION has started on houses at the Woodvale development site in Westhoughton.
  
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• Moor walker rescued after dog knocks him over

  14-12-2016 10:29
  
  BOLTON Mountain Rescue Team went to the aid of an injured man who had been on Holcombe Moor.
  
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• 'This is getting to the point where they will lose a son and a husband' - Amir Khan speaks out over family feud

  14-12-2016 09:38
  
  Boxer Amir Khan has called for the 'childish` behavíour between members of his family and his wife Faryal to stop.
  
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• Children donate Christmas toys for less fortunate youngsters (From ... - The Bolton News

  14-12-2016 07:04
  
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  Children donate Christmas toys for less fortunate youngsters (From ...
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  YOUNGSTERS celebrated the season of goodwill by thinking of those less fortunate than themselves.and more »
  
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• Stormtroopers and Boba Fett due at cinema for new Star Wars film

  14-12-2016 07:03
  
  IMPERIAL Stormtroopers and the galaxy’s most feared bounty hunter will be among film fans watching the biggest movie of year this week.
  
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• Pupils delighted by sound of Scotland thanks to visiting bagpipers

  14-12-2016 07:03
  
  YOUNGSTERS sampled the sound of Scotland when three bagpipe band members gave a concert at a school.
  
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• Number of children in care among highest - but adoption rates best in country

  14-12-2016 07:03
  
  BOLTON has the second highest number of children in care in the Greater Manchester area.
  
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• 'It was completely unbelievable' - Parking fine quashed after woman contests dropped kerb prosecution

  14-12-2016 07:03
  
  A DRIVER who was given a £70 parking ticket has won her case against Bolton Council.
  
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• Hope that protected status for nesting birds will also safeguard against fracking

  14-12-2016 07:03
  
  COUNCILLORS in Horwich have welcomed news that a part of the West Pennine Moors could become a site of special scientific interest.
  
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• Generous stranger paid for woman's shopping after seeing her struggling at till

  14-12-2016 07:03
  
  A GENEROUS stranger paid for a woman's shopping after he saw her struggling to pay.
  
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• Council to rule on Palais de Danse demolition as part of new hotel plans

  14-12-2016 07:03
  
  COUNCILLORS are to decide tomorrow whether plans to pull down the former Palais de Danse building and erect a new hotel and car park complex can go ahead.
  
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• Children donate Christmas toys for less fortunate youngsters

  14-12-2016 07:03
  
  YOUNGSTERS celebrated the season of goodwill by thinking of those less fortunate than themselves.
  
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• Charity to help more at-risk young people

  14-12-2016 07:03
  
  A POPULAR Bolton charity will deliver a service across Greater Manchester to help vulnerable children who have gone missing more than once.
  
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• REVEALED: Plan to covert vacant office block into 81 new flats

  14-12-2016 07:02
  
  A DEVELOPER wants to turn a vacant town centre office block into bedsit flats.
  
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• Optical illusions form part of university's Market Place exhibition

  14-12-2016 07:02
  
  A COLLECTION of beautiful and perplexing images are going on display in Bolton.
  
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• 'Shocking and unacceptable' - Paramedics took hour and a half to reach elderly woman knocked down by cyclist

  14-12-2016 06:31
  
  PARAMEDICS took nearly an hour-and-a-half to reach an elderly woman who was knocked down by a cyclist and banged her head — a delay branded "shocking" and "unacceptable".
  
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• School turns to Dickens to choose name for police horse

  14-12-2016 06:31
  
  THERE was plenty of horsing around at a primary school as pupils celebrated becoming the first to adopt a police horse.
  
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• School turns to Charles Dickens to choose name for police horse

  14-12-2016 06:31
  
  THERE was plenty of horsing around at a primary school as pupils celebrated becoming the first to adopt a police horse.
  
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• Councillor denies keeping big bin after slim bin swap

  14-12-2016 06:31
  
  A BOLTON Councillor has come under fire after it was claimed he still owns a large 240 litre bin as well as a new slimline version at his home address.
  
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• Council makes £2.2 million available to company behind Logistics North to 'incentivise' new businesses

  14-12-2016 06:09
  
  BOLTON Council is working to entice more ‘major’ companies to the town in the hope of bringing hundreds of jobs to the borough.
  
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• Council hands £2.2 million to company behind Logistics North to 'incentivise' new businesses

  14-12-2016 06:09
  
  BOLTON Council is working to entice more ‘major’ companies to the town in the hope of bringing hundreds of jobs to the borough.
  
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