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 [...]

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 [...]

Public transport is still being heavily disrupted throughout Greater Manchester, with the latest travel updates from 4.30pm posted below. GMPTE has issued a series of bulletins with the latest travel updates, which we have been posting on this page. Check back to our website throughout the day for more updates or go to www.gmpte.com LATEST [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A third cannabis farm has been discovered in Westhoughton, it has been revealed. More than 300 plants were found in a house after firefighters tackled a blaze at the Townsfield Road location. Richard Shackleton, aged 38, of Winscar Road, Hindley, pleaded guilty to production of cannabis in relation to the Westhoughton farm. He was also [...]

A massive overhaul of the waste collection service will affect every home in Bolton from this month. Now Westhoughton’s household waste bins will all be collected on the same day – Mondays. Residents are to be informed by letter and leaflets will be stuck to bins informing people of the decision which comes into effect [...]

The latest Police newsletter for the Westhoughton area has now been made available on our website. Click here to view the August 2009 report in PDF format.