CHANGES for the better we welcome unreservedly. And the £150,000 cash boost for the Mawdsley Street and Nelson Square conservation area can be put to good use.

It's good to know priority will be given to improving the central park area of Nelson Square and attention will then by focused on buildings, particularly those with listed status, in Mawdsley Street.

It's important that as we make any changes to these areas we do it with style. Fourth official needed THE sooner the Football Association introduces the services of a fourth official - complete with video replay facilities - to its matches, the better.

Wanderers played their hearts out against title-chasers Arsenal last night, but were still denied the point they deserved because of the failings of the referee.

The man-in-the-middle didn't have the nerve to give Bolton a justified penalty - with the aid of an assistant and a television camera that responsibility would have been taken away.

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