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 [...]

Frontline council services will continue to be disrupted throughout tomorrow (Thursday) because of the heavy snow that has fallen. Updates will be posted to this website when we get them, and to our Twitter and Facebook. You can also discuss the bin collections on the discussion board in Facebook. The council has issued the following [...]

LATEST: The recent heavy snowfall has resulted in all bin collections for Westhoughton being suspended this week, the council has told us. This will mean that Westhoughton residents will have to wait until next week, on the 28th December, for a grey bin collection only. Recycling collections for beige and burgundy bins will commence on [...]

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 [...]