Wakes Week News Today

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SIR – Labour’s desire to have the NHS working seven days per week is of course admirable (“Operations and scans at weekend under Labour plan for 24-7 NHS”, report, December 18). Sadly, maintaining the use of expensive assets such as operating theatres, radiology and pathology services 24 hours a day is wholly unrealistic given the large number of human beings required to run the organisation. When I operate, whether it be a major joint reconstruction or a simpler proc...

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The summer holidays are here with schools across East Lancashire closing for their annual break.

A week long of events is happening in Tideswell as Wakes Week returns with the hope of making the event a ‘key tourism attraction for the county’.

THE annual Wakes Week’s holiday was a double reason for folks in Bolton to celebrate.

A week of carnival fun which includes a flypast by a Lancaster Bomber is set to begin in Tideswell this weekend.

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 For thousands of Bolton children it was the most exciting time of the year, at least next to Christmas. ‘Bolton Holidays’ – or ‘Wakes Week’ - in the 1950s and 1960s was the fortnight when Bolton emptied, with thousands of families heading for the Lancashire seaside resorts, mostly Bla...

As the landmark British silent film Piccadilly lands on Blu-ray, we turn the clock back to the roaring 20s and beyond in search of some of the UK’s finest silent feature films.

Updated Friday, 30th April 2021, 9:29 am With covid still very much a concern, organisers of many of our local carnivals feel they cannot safely deliver the usual large scale events, though they do hope to be able to provide smaller scale fun days. One of the first events in the calendar is Hayfield May Queen. Organiser Adrian Lee said: "The May Queen usually kicks off the start of the summer and after expanding to a two-day event in 2019 with live music and food stalls on the Sunday we reall...