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A road in Tyldesley has been closed in both directions due to an accident.

A road in Tyldesley has been closed in both directions due to an accident.

A LIFELONG Bolton Wanderers fan was remembered by hundreds today as friends and family lined the streets to pay tribute to a ‘local legend’.

STATE-OF-THE-ART archive facilities will be unveiled to the public later this month at the newly-renovated Grade II listed Leigh Town Hall.

VIOLENT carjackers bit a driver’s ear and punched him after leaping into his £38,000 Audi.

VIOLENT carjackers bit a driver’s ear and punched him after leaping into his £38,000 Audi.

JOURNAL reader Jim Mackenzie has shared this wonderful photograph with us featuring his late wife Betty.

A three-year programme that promises to bring Tyldesley to life with art and culture has been given a £70,000 cash injection. For Tyldesley, the group behind the Tyldesley Heritage Action Zone (HAZ) programme, will receive the money as part of Historic England £6m funding for projects across the country. It will help the community deliver a range of events and activities over the next three years and additional funding has also been secured for the expertise of arts and events producer ...

Professor Paul Salveson is a historian and writer and lives in Bolton. He is visiting professor in ‘Worktown Studies’ at the University of Bolton and author of several books on Lancashire history You’d have to be of a certain age to remember Bolton’s ‘other’ railway, which ran from Great Moor Street station, now part of Morrison’s car park. It was the terminus for two lines – the Leigh and Kenyon Junction line, via Chequerbent, and the route to Manchester via Walkden and L...

1 If the Labour Party ever wants to win again, it must embrace Blairism on learning old lessons “For Labour, it feels like things can only get better. Not in the bouncy, optimistic sense, mind you, but in a very stark and sobering sense. Things need to get better and they need to get better quickly,” says Jordan Tyldesley in The Independent. She acknowledges that admitting to liking Blair is deemed by “some on the left, an act of treason” and that he had his own “failings”, but she ...