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Walker's crisp finish sets young Whites on road to Palace glory
WANDERERS Under-18s got their first win of the Premier League Elite Group phase with a 2-1 triumph at Crystal Palace on Saturday. David Lee and Tony Kelly’s side travelled to the capital having lost six league matches since their impressive pre-Christmas
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MATCH VERDICT: Ipswich 1 Wanderers 0
IPSWICH gave Dougie Freedman his first kick in the shins as Wanderers boss, and this run-halting defeat amounts to something like a bloody nose. Bullied out of this game for the most part, the Whites can use the international break to go away and
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Post mortem result of baby found in Bolton
Police have confirmed the newborn baby whose body was found in Bolton was a girl. Police were called to Ox Hey Lane, Lostock, after a man and woman out walking their dog discovered the body of a baby shortly before 4.55pm on Thursday March 14.
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‘I could have died of septicaemia if I hadn’t found it’, says young mother
A YOUNG mother has spoken of her horror after discovering medical staff had left a large piece of blood-soaked gauze inside her for four days. Kirsty Gallagher believes that she could have got septicaemia and died if she had not found the gauze
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Teacher set to strike over pay and conditions
Teachers are to begin a series of strikes from this summer in a continuing row over, pay, pensions and workload, it was announced today. Schools across the country are likely to be affected by the rolling programme of walkouts, which will begin
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McCarthy swears by his double winners
MICK McCarthy admits he got a dressing down from his wife after turning the air blue with his celebrations after victory over Wanderers. The Ipswich boss was elated after Carlos Edwards’ strike earned them a first victory in five games to keep
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Freedman frustrated after smash and grab
DOUGIE Freedman felt “mugged” after defeat against Ipswich – and not for the first time. After Michael Chopra had completed a smash-and-grab victory over Wanderers at the Reebok in December, Carlos Edwards stepped forward with his first goal in
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RETRO MATCH: A black Knight for Whites at Ipswich
IPSWICH Town’s Portman Road was the scene of one of the most painful and controversial defeats in the history of Bolton Wanderers. The occasion was the second leg of the Division One Play-off semi-final – May 17, 2000 – when George Burley’s Tractor
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Focus should be on winning games, says Davies
CRAIG Davies reckons Wanderers should shelve play-off talk for now and concentrate on launching another unbeaten run. Defeat at Ipswich was the first in nine for Dougie Freedman’s men, who have launched an unlikely assault on the top six as a result
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Vehicle fire causes M61 delays
THE M61 northbound was closed during rush-hour this morning after a vehicle fire. Motorists faced delays after the incident, between junction six for Horwich and junction eight for Chorley, at 9am. Firefighters from Chorley tackled the
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Wrong place for access
HAVING seen the Master Plan Diagram regarding the development of the Horwich Loco works, the proposal of a potential secondary access point to the site off Crown Lane/Station Road, Horwich, would surely cause even more congestion and heavy traffic
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Bring your prices down
AFTER visiting various charity shops in Bolton, Farnworth and Leigh, I think the charities are losing out on much-needed funds by the high pricing of goods on sale. Customers will buy more if goods were cheaper as the feeling, on walking round,
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Daylight Tax could be the answer...
I am writing to comment on the various “savings” announced lately by our local council, which have me more than a little bewildered. Perhaps I am missing something, but surely savings, by definition, are the amount left over after judicious apportioning
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Bedroom tax: Ill-conceived, badly considered and poorly defended
THE bedroom tax, or, as Mr Cameron would have it, benefit adjustment, or some such euphemism, is a prime example of Tory proposals that are ill-conceived, badly considered and poorly defended. For example, what right has a government to order families
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Vote against our wishes
I LOVE reading the letters page in The Bolton News, as well as the rest of the paper, and normally rant when a letter from Steve Jones has a letter printed. A rave normally at the wife and fresh air. However, his letter on Wednesday, March 14,
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Jail is their just desserts
DUNCAN McArthur, of Markland Hill, says that Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce were treated harshly by the judge. He says their eight-month prison sentence is a punishment too far. Mr McArthur thinks that a heavy fine would have sufficed. What kind
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1,000 clubs to get defibrillators in wake of Muamba’s collapse
NEARLY 1,000 football clubs will receive defibrillators in the wake of Fabrice Muamba’s cardiac arrest a year ago. The Football Association will make more than 900 of the potentially life-saving devices available to Premier League and Football
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Out in force for ‘bedroom tax’ demo
CROWDS of demonstrators made a stand against the Government’s so-called “bedroom tax” at a protest in Victoria Square. More than 100 protesters gathered outside the town hall on Saturday to show their opposition to new occupancy penalties due to
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Mercy drive to take medical supplies to war-torn Syria
A CONVOY of ambulances packed with medical aid will be driven 4,000 miles from Bolton to help injured refugees in war-torn Syria. Volunteers from Bolton set off in two of the ex-NHS vehicles at midnight on Sunday to join another five ambulances
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Check reveals kidney disease
BOLTON is identifying more people with kidney disease than the rest of Greater Manchester, thanks in part to the Big Bolton Healthcheck campaign supported by The Bolton News. A survey revealed that people in the North West are most likely to be
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Widow ‘overwhelmed by love and support’
A HEARTBROKEN widow and mother-of-five says she has been overwhelmed by the love and support she has received from her friends and the community after her husband died from a medical condition he did not know he had. Claire Axon, from Little Lever
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Floral tributes to tragic baby
FLOWERS have been left in the lane where a newborn baby’s body was found abandoned in a plastic bag. Mourners for the unknown child also placed a teddy bear next to the cordoned off area in Ox Hey Lane, Lostock, where the body was found by dog
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Mayor puts on the Hollywood glitz for charity bash
LIMOUSINES, cocktail dresses and a red carpet — it can only be the Mayor of Bolton’s annual charity bash. Glamorous guests were given the A-list celebrity treatment as they arrived in James Bond style in Victoria Square on Friday night. For
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Family escapes early morning house blaze
A FAMILY of eight escaped a house fire after an electric heater went up in flames. Firefighters said the front bedroom of the house, in Ramsay Avenue, Farnworth, was well alight when they arrived just after 4am on Saturday morning. The parents
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150 jobs on offer at booming law firm
A BOLTON law firm is to recruit up to 150 extra staff this year after acquiring a third floor of a town centre office block. Asons Solicitors took out a second floor of the building in Bark Street in December and announced plans to recruit an extra
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Missile firm joins our list of sponsors
MBDA, a world-leader in missiles and missile systems with a factory at Lostock, is a new sponsor in this year’s Bolton and Bury Business Awards. The multi-national group has 10,000 employees and has facilities in the UK, France, Italy, Germany,
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Ruth in marathon charity challenge
A TRAINEE solicitor will run the London Marathon to raise money for the Meningitis Researchr. Ruth Hill, aged 27, who works at Keoghs in Horwich, will take part in the event on April 21 in memory of her sister Anne Fletcher, who died in 2001 —
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Whites boss refuses to give up on play-off chase
DOUGIE Freedman insists defeat at Ipswich Town is not necessarily the end of Wanderers’ play-off chances. Carlos Edwards’ 88th-minute strike brought the Whites crashing back down to earth after a five-match winning streak. Results elsewhere
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Employment in videogame creative sector has grown by four per cent
Employment in the videogame sector has grown by four per cent, bucking the national economic trend. Figures released today show the number of creative staff in studios grew from 8,888 to 9,224 in 2012, ending a three-year decline in employment.
