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Professor Paul Salveson is a historian and writer and lives in Bolton. He is visiting professor in ‘Worktown Studies’ at the University of…

A POPULAR Bolton brewery is set to host its first beer festival in July. ‘Monkey in the Woods’ by Northern Monkey, which runs a bar in Nelson Square, Bolton, is to take place on July 3 as part of Bolton’s Beer and Cider week. The festival is to be hosted at Barrow Bridge car park, off Barrow Bridge Road, with half the tickets already sold for the event. A range of locally brewed beers, ciders and Bolton gin will be sold at the event, with live music and food also on offer. Thirty per cent of the proceeds from the event will be donated to The Woodlands Trust, Smithills Estate, ...

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 International Women’s Day on Monday was a reminder of the many Bolton women who have played an important role in society – not just locally, but on the national stage. Four of them are Sarah Reddish, Alice Foley, Alice Collinge and Susan Isaacs Sarah Reddish (centre) with the the Bolton Women’s Co-operative Guild around 1900 Sarah Reddish Sarah Reddish was born in Westleigh (as it...

Walker Fold Woods WOODLAND popular with walkers is to be closed for several months as trees infected with a dangerous disease are chopped down. The affected trees, and a buffer zone around them at Walker Fold Wood, within the Smithills estate, must be felled by law. Several trees have become infected by phytophthora ramorum. Staff from the Woodland Trust are starting a 10-month project of felling works, which will lead to an exclusion area at the wood and the closure of footpaths. In a statement, The Woodland Trust said they had no choice to act once the disease had been identified...