The planned health centre for Westhoughton has been shelved.

Labour’s handling of our waste has been described as a ‘farce’ by local councillor Julia Silvester. Julia has blasted Labour’s town hall chiefs for their mismanagement of bin collections in Bolton. They changed the system, which left thousands of people without a bin collection for WEEKS. The fiasco worsened when snowy and icy conditions swept [...]

Westhoughton High School are set to unveil their plans this month as part of the Building Schools for the Future programme. A series of open evenings aimed at sharing the borough’s plans for Building Schools for the Future will commence this week. Each school in Phase One of the BSF Programme will show their plans [...]

You have said it yourself, and you know it’s true – Westhoughton is forgotten. Hundreds of residents from our hard-working community have got in touch with JULIA SILVESTER – the councillor fighting for a better deal for everyone who lives in Westhoughton South ward. Julia conducted a survey of the community and the results are [...]

Emergency plans to collect waste from three sites in Westhoughton over the period of snow and ice have been condemned as ‘simply not good enough’. Refuse collectors will be taking waste next Monday (11th January) from Bolton Road car park, La Scala car park and the Grey Man car park in order to ease the [...]

Several collection points have been set up around Westhoughton where refuse collectors will take your household rubbish as part of an emergency operation. It comes as bin lorries are unable to safely get around Westhoughton’s streets and so bin collections next Monday have been cancelled. The announcement comes quickly after Westhoughton South ward councillor David [...]

Work has started on a promised play area for the Summerfields Estate . Housing developers Barratts and Wimpey had agreed to build a joint play area as part of the development of Madison Park and Fell Foot Meadow. However, the site was not usable as Wimpey had left their site completely flat, and Barratt had [...]

Whether you were a New Year party reveller or had an early night, Westhoughton residents have seen it through to 2010. Westhoughton Liberal Democrats would like to wish everyone in the town a heartfelt ‘Happy New Year’… here’s to hoping 2010 will be a prosperous year. Councillor David Wilkinson, who represents Westhoughton South ward alongside [...]

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.