The timetable for the new Sunday service from Daisy Hill has been unveiled.

The broken road surface of Allenby Grove has worsened once again, the Lib Dem team can reveal. It follows an announcement by Labour chiefs at Bolton Town Hall that the road is not a priority and will not be resurfaced. Councillor Julia Silvester and the Liberal Democrat team have been battling for the road to [...]

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 [...]

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 new trial Sunday service is to be launched on the line that runs through Daisy Hill railway station. The proposed service, operated by Northern Rail, would run hourly during the day on Sundays, with the last train departing from Manchester shortly after 6pm. Trains will run between Wigan Wallgate and Manchester Victoria, via Atherton [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]