A sign on Washacre Close is to be replaced after its legs had rotted badly.. Derek Gradwell, your Liberal Democrat campaigner, was out and about in the area when he noticed the damaged sign that says “Private road: access for residents only”. The Liberal Democrat team have since reported it to Bolton Council, who say [...]

For many years residents have complained about the massive forest trees on the Hindley’s estate – and now they are to get the chop. The Liberal Democrat team asked for work on the estate’s trees and two years ago a start was made by removing some from Greenfold Lane and Oxlea Grove. For some strange [...]

A debate has started has to whether to Westhoughton’s Parochial Primary School should change its name as part of modernisation plans. The school’s headmaster, Gareth Robertshaw, has announced radical plans to change the 200-year old school name to St Bartholomew’s CE Primary School. They say that the word ‘parochial’ means narrow-minded – and it is [...]

LIDL will be opening Thursday, 3rd December, we can reveal. The national chain will open their first Westhoughton store at the Wigan Road / Cricketers Way junction, off The Fairways. It is being closely followed by Sainsburys, who will be opening in February 2010.

The introduction of ID cards has been slammed once again by Jackie Pearcey, the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate for Bolton West. Jackie has called for the Government to scrap the proposed ID Card pilot for Greater Manchester.  Just 2,400 residents of the region have expressed an interest, which is less than 0.4% of the population. [...]

Liberal Democrat councillors are calling for safety improvements to be made to Wigan Road. Councillors Julia Silvester and David Wilkinson are both pressuring the council. Julia said: “Residents have often complained to us about how dangerous the road is for motorists and pedestrians alike.” An improvement scheme for Wigan Road from Wearish Lane to Cricketers [...]

The council has put up a new sign on Westhoughton’s library that is so far up that it is hard to read – in a bid to follow the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA). A second sign that directs people to the library has been placed directly under the existing sign, causing passers-by to think they [...]

It will take four weeks for traffic management works to be completed on Park Road, after the plans were given the go-ahead recently. Bolton Council has now agreed the improvements that are to be made to the busy road, starting on 16th November. Liberal Democrat campaigner Derek Gradwell said: “This is good news that the [...]

A new cafe could be opening on Wigan Road if planning permission is granted. The applicant wants to set up the new food outlet in the former ‘Cupboard Love’ shop on the corner of Wigan Road and Wilbraham Street, opposite Ditchfield Gardens. The hours of opening would be Monday to Saturday 9am to 4pm and Sunday 9am to 2pm. [...]

Labour chiefs faced a grilling by angry residents and binmen as the bins fiasco rumbled on. Top man Councillor Cliff Morris – Leader  of the Council – and Cllr Sufrana Bashir-Ismail, his Executive Member for Cleaner, Greener, Safer were sat on a panel organised by The Bolton News, where residents were invited along to ask the [...]