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Skate park could be closed
2:50pm Thursday 7th August 2008
THE future of Bolton’s town centre skate park will be decided today.
Andy pedals 3,000 miles in six days
9:00pm Thursday 7th August 2008
A CANCER survivor has completed one of the world’s toughest physical challenges in less than a week.
Trial for man facing child porn charges
5:50pm Thursday 7th August 2008
A MAN has been charged with downloading more than 29,000 indecent images of children.
Comments (1)Man denies stealing £6,300 from work
5:26pm Thursday 7th August 2008
AN employee has been accused of stealing £6,300 from his work.
Assault charge denied
5:27pm Thursday 7th August 2008
A MAN has denied beating up a woman. Shaun Lee, aged 40, of Bridge Street, Farn-worth, denied the common assault of Helen Lee.
Rescue bid is all in a day’s training . . .
5:10pm Thursday 7th August 2008
DRAMATIC scenes unfolded at a scrapyard as fire crews battled to save three men injured in a car smash.
Listen up, say angry councillors
4:50pm Thursday 7th August 2008
FED-UP town councillors are writing to town hall chiefs in Bolton because they feel their concerns are falling on deaf ears.
Armed robbery in Little Lever
4:56pm Thursday 7th August 2008
Three men stole a small amount of cash during an armed robbery in Bolton.
Robbery victim,80, has broken arm
4:57pm Thursday 7th August 2008
AN elderly woman was seriously hurt after she was pushed to the ground in a daylight robbery.
Family's big cheque for charity
4:49pm Thursday 7th August 2008
A FAMILY who lost their baby boy to meninigits have raised thousands of pounds for a charity which funds research into the disease.
National News
McCann report intelligence 'flawed'
Updated 8:34pm Thursday 7th August 2008
Secret intelligence claiming Madeleine McCann was snatched to order by a Belgian paedophile ring is flawed, sources said.
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Sending out the wrong message
SORRY, Mr Keegan, but taking back convicted thug Joey Barton into the Newcastle team shows poor judgement.
Parents need to grow up
PARENTS who wrap their children in cottonwool and take the adventure out of playtime risk turning them into adults unable to deal with life’s challenges.
Town’s tuneful buskers
IT sounds like the warbling of busker Andrew Oliver was not sweet music to the shopkeepers of Penzance in Cornwall.
Hunt to find Woman of Year
THE annual hunt has just been launched to find a Bolton Woman of the Year.
Can you teach old dogs New Tricks?
WHO would have thought that a TV series about a group of pensioner policemen solving old crimes would become such a hit.
Olympics teaches us about ourselves
WHEN the opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics takes place on Friday a flood of sporting achievements will start to fill our TV screens.
Scots are on the verge of breaking away
ONE of my closest friends is a Scot, from Greenock. He has lived and worked in Greater Manchester for many years, but I suspect his umbilical chord, metaphorically at least, is still tethered to a tree trunk, possibly a caber, somewhere north of Hadrian’s Wall.
Why sport is still a big hit
I PLAYED rounders last week in Edgworth with a team largely old enough to be my grand-daughters.
McCanns must maintain their dignity
IT’S a sad fact that what Kate and Gerry McCann do next is likely to determine how people remember them in years to come.
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