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 [...]

Bolton’s Labour and Tory councillors have given the go-ahead for the Grundy’s Farm site to be turned into five new houses. Developers want to convert the old Grundy’s Farm building into two dwellings. They also want to build three new houses in the garden area.