ANGELA Kelly takes a personal look at the week in cyberspace in Bolton:

Saturday showed another angle to double yellow lines' parking problems when local businessman Phil Swire painted some outside his business to deter parkers ....and ended up getting booked! He had asked Bury Council to put double yellow lines there to stop thoughtless motorists blocking the entrance to his firm. They said they could not afford it, so accommodating Phil painted his own.

Thirty people have been banned from pubs and clubs in Westhoughton to try to stamp out drunken crime. Westhoughton Pub and Club Alliance are taking steps to keep troublemakers away. Well done -- yobs are unwelcome in local pubs and clubs, they cause difficulties for licensees and upset law-abiding punters.

Monday revealed that, a week after a 17 year-old youth drowned in Belmont's Blue Lagoon during the hot spell, youths were still risking their lives swimming there. The picturesque reservoir is deceptively welcoming, but water temperatures plummet dramatically at depth and it has claimed many lives over the years. Unfortunately, it's hard to get the message across to hot-blooded youths who simply see a fun way to cool off.

Beautiful local lass Amy Nuttall is leaving Emmerdale, and there is much second-guessing on a musical career. The redhead from Lostock has a lovely singing voice and could easily become a stage star, but I wouldn't bet against her being snapped up elsewhere. She has real star quality.

Tuesday had the parking attendants in the news again when they ticketed a car being used to tow a lifeboat for a Bolton town centre charity collection. The RNLI does this each year, and the generous folk of Bolton help to keep this important charity going. Unfortunately, when it comes to trying to find common sense among some parking wardens we're sunk.

Floral tributes adorned the Farnworth roadside where a 13-year-old girl was killed and her friend badly injured. They were both involved in a horror crash when a sports car ploughed into them at the junction of Albert Road and Longcauseway.

Wednesday had more sadness when the story of nine years-old Jessica Anders was highlighted. She died after suffering an asthma attack at her Little Lever home. The brave lass had previously coped so well with asthma and done so much in her young life that her death in this way seems even more tragic.

Selfish yobs trashed the inside of a local taxi driver's cab, causing £1,000 worth of damage. Mohammed Farouk was horrified at the attack and wants action. If the yobs continue this way, no-one will be able to get late-night cabs home from Bolton town centre to certain areas.

Thursday reported on the Austrian coach crash in which five Britons died, and revealed that a Worsley family were among the injured. Retired college lecturer Mr Don Astley, his wife Glennys and teenage son Ian were in hospital after the coach somersaulted down a slope near Salzburg. Mrs Astley was the most seriously injured, and was in intensive care.

Phoenix Nights' comedian Dave Spikey is performing a one-off stand-up concert at Bolton's Albert Halls to raise money for the Royal Bolton Hospital where he worked in haematology. The money will partly go to the Coronary Care Unit there and it is bound to be a big attraction. It proves that Dave is big-hearted in more ways than one, and deserves to do well.

Friday revealed how a multi-million pound plan to revamp Bolton Market Hall was causing real concerns about the future for the 70 or so traders there.

The Victorian hall is a Grade II listed building and a sympathetic development is promised by the company involved in the plan. Unfortunately, the traders fear there will not be the same sympathy shown to them, and that the town's unique gathering of small businesses will mark its 150th anniversary next year by being irrevocably changed.

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