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THE coronavirus pandemic may have changed the way we work with other people, but it has certainly not affected Bolton’s community spirit ­- if anything it has strengthened it. In our second feature on Team Bolton we look at how communities across the borough are lending a helping hand and how organisations designed to help you are now working. Bolton at Home has changed the way it works with communities in Bolton ­- and much of its work has moved online as people can no longer meet in...

Residents have reacted with anger at plans to build an apartment block and homes on green space. A planning application submitted by Watson Homes, proposes to demolish an existing bungalow and build nine new houses with a four storey block of 36 apartments in the Johnson Fold area. This would be on land off Grizedale Close, adjacent to Moss Bank Way, which currently houses one bungalow with a number of trees. However, residents have since expressed their concerns about the effect this d...

Scott Brickles A MAN who fell in with the wrong crowd after moving to Bolton was twice caught drug driving. Bolton Crown Court heard how Scott Brickles was stopped by police when he was driving a VW Passat on Darwen Road, Bromley Cross, on May 18 last year at 8.20pm. “The police thought he looked nervous,” said Kate Hammond, prosecuting, who said a roadside test proved positive and Brickles admitted he had used cocaine the previous evening. He was released on bail but just weeks lat...