I'M answering the comments about the young homeless boy in the passage sleeping rough near the Octagon.
I can say I know what I am talking about when I say Bolton Council DO help you - I have been homeless. I can't praise Bolton Council enough and the Hostel, Clare Court, Farnworth, was kindness itself. The Council tried to help him but he refused.
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