Overgrown trees on Oxlea Grove and Greenfold Lane are to be removed finally. It comes after a long delay to the proposed work, which was first suggested back in 2006.

The fight against an application for a mobile phone mast on Lower Leigh Road has been lost. Despite their plans for a 12.5 metre high phone mast and equipment box being refused by Bolton Council, the company won an appeal that was overseen by a government planning inspector.

Plans for a massive new recycling plant at the scrap yard off Manchester Road have been passed. Permission was given for the extension at J Doyle’s site by Labour and Tory councillors.

PLANS to build two new houses behind 203 Wigan Road have been passed by Labour and Tory councillors despite the busy traffic problems on Wigan Road. The plans have been passed despite concerns being raised over the poor access at a busy bend on Wigan Road.

The new street lighting on some of Westhoughton’s streets has been hailed a success by local councillors. After years of putting up with gloomy, yellow street lighting, residents finally saw the light at the end of the tunnel with a new lighting scheme.

New anti-speeding measures have been put in place on Dicconson Lane – and the news was welcomed by your Liberal Democrat councillor, Derek Gradwell. A new speed camera, which flashes a 30mph warning at passing drivers, has been installed along the road, which is plagued by speeding traffic on a day-to-day basis.

Bolton’s Labour and Tory councillors have given the go-ahead for the Grundy’s Farm site to be turned into five new houses. Developers want to convert the old Grundy’s Farm building into two dwellings. They also want to build three new houses in the garden area.

Teacher-pupil ratios in early years education have fallen across the country according to official figures released yesterday and analysed by the Liberal Democrats. There are 40 local authorities where the ratio of qualified teaching staff to pupils in primary schools has fallen, and 50 authorities where the ratio has fallen in nursery schools.