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PLANS to change the use of a residential property on a housing estate to a private children’s home have been rejected by councillors. The council’s planning committee heard claims that children were being ‘shipped to Bolton from across the country for profit’ as the matter was debated. The application sought to change the use of a detached two storey house on Brodick Drive, Breightmet, from a dwelling house to residential unit for two children, aged eight to 16. The plans state...

Mark Logan MP FLY-tipping campaigner and Bolton North East MP Mark Logan has been re-elected as vice-chairman of a parliamentary litterbusting group. The MP is a member of the Tidy Britain All Party Parliament Group (APPG), a collective dedicated to protecting the environment. Mr Logan is hoping to end illegal waste dumping and raise awareness for local environmental issues in Bolton North East. The Conservative MP has said he is "appalled" by recent reports of flytipping across his con...

Bolton Council and local partners want to hear your priorities for making the borough cleaner and greener. Contributions from local people, businesses and community groups will help inform a 10-year climate change action plan for the borough. Bolton Council declared a climate emergency in 2019 and has set an ambitious target to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2030. The Climate Emergency Survey is asking people what carbon reduction options should be prioritised. Contributions fro...

The Best One store on Bury Road in Breightmet and laughing gas cannisters (inset) A RETAILER is at risk of losing his licence after trading standards found 375 canisters of laughing gas in a back room. During a raid on Best One in Bury Road, Breightmet, on December 10 last year, consumer protection officers from Bolton Council found 15 boxes of nitrous oxide capsules Nitrous oxide, otherwise known as laughing gas or hippy crack, is usually consumed through balloons and has long been used ...

A CRACKDOWN on litter being thrown from cars could see motorists fined £150 as part of a tough new raft of measures being put forward to ‘Keep Bolton Tidy’. Under new powers set to be approved today, the registered owner of the vehicle will be liable for the fine if litter is seen being dropped out from a moving or parked car ­- currently the local authority can only issue if the person responsible for littering is identified. Bolton Council is also seeking to increase fines for dro...

PARENTS in Bolton whose children are on free school meals will be given a £20 voucher, over the half-term period. The announcement was made as local schools and Town Hall chiefs praised Boltons catering service for the food parcels it has been providing to cash-strapped families during lockdown ­— as families elsewhere in the country shared pictures of the meagre food parcels they had received. And it has been a very different picture in Bolton, with one headteacher sharing a food p...

The extension is part of measures to help those in rented accommodation and rough sleepers Backed by an additional £10 million in funding, all councils in England are being asked to redouble their efforts to help accommodate all those currently sleeping rough and ensure they are swiftly registered with a GP, where they are not already. Cllr Adele Warren, Bolton Council’s Executive Cabinet Member with responsibility for homelessness, said: “This is welcome news and will help support s...

I made £150 a day but I wasnt begging for food: Dad who nearly died on the streets on how near-tragedy made him turn his life around I decided to change and my life is totally different now. I feel brilliant Updated At the height of his addiction, Dean Paul was injecting himself 10 times a day (Image: 2017 Getty Images) For all the latest news from in and around Bolton, sign up for the free MyBolton newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subsc...

There will be no collection on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day. During December more than one million bins are expected to be emptied. If your normal collection date is Christmas Day then bins will be collected on Monday, December 28. For the week beginning Monday, December 28, for those expecting collections on the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, all collections will be one day later than normal. For those expecting collection on Thursday, December 31, collections will be ...

There will be no collection on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day. During December more than one million bins are expected to be emptied. If your normal collection date is Christmas Day then bins will be collected on Monday, December 28. For the week beginning Monday, December 28, for those expecting collections on the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, all collections will be one day later than normal. For those expecting collection on Thursday, December 31, collections will be ...