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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

LOCAL councillor Julia Silvester has been calling for better footpaths in Westhoughton’s cemetery. As our picture below shows, a number of the footpaths in the grounds are in a poor condition. Campaigner Julia said: “The cemetery is let down by the state of its paths and the Lib Dem team has been acting on the [...]

LABOUR councillors tried to stop a new Tesco in Westhoughton, only to be found shopping in it days later. The new mini Tesco on Manchester Road at the White Horse junction has proven to be a lifeline for people living in that area, especially the elderly who cannot travel far. But Labour councillors originally wanted [...]