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Joe Harrigan

Reporter at Newsquest

Reporter for East Lancashire

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  • 3 days ago | theboltonnews.co.uk | Joe Harrigan

    5 1/1 Every week Greater Manchester Police ask readers of The Bolton News for help to find wanted suspects. THOMAS ROBERTS, 34, is wanted on recall to prison. DARREN WELSH, 54, is wanted on recall to prison. MOHAMMED KHAN, 43, is wanted on recall to prison. LEON TOTTEN, 34, is is wanted on recall to prison.

  • 3 days ago | theboltonnews.co.uk | Joe Harrigan

    4 1/1 A shuttered former pub could be set to be demolished with a new care home built in its place. If approved, the former Cotton Kier pub at The Valley Leisure Park in Eagley Brook Way, which closed in September 2023 after serving the public for nearly 24 years, will be demolished. In its place, a 66-bedroom residential care home for older people will be built.

  • 3 days ago | theboltonnews.co.uk | Joe Harrigan

    This comes after Chorley New Road based Whitewell Financial Planning was acquired by Sale based Suttons Independent Financial Advisors. The Bolton firm was founded back in 2008 by Phil O’Conner and now manages nearly £40M worth of clients’ assets, providing financial planning, investment and retirement advice. Mr O’Conner said: “There was interest from a number of parties, but I felt Suttons was the right fit for the business.

  • 3 days ago | theboltonnews.co.uk | Joe Harrigan

    4 1/1 A “beautiful communal space” has been created outside Bolton’s most historic youth club by a group of dedicated volunteers. The 25 Virgin Media O2 volunteers started off with a simple garden tidy up outside Bolton Lads and Girls Club on Spa Road before moving on to a full-scale transformation.

  • 3 days ago | theboltonnews.co.uk | Joe Harrigan

    4 1/1 A husband and wife who were tracked down to Bolton after a “calculated and frenzied attack” on the man’s stepmother have been jailed. Wasif Hussain, 21, and wife Nabela Tabassum, 19, wore giraffe masks and attacked the woman with a knife and hammer at her home in Kings Norton, Birmingham on January 29 last year. The pair then fled the West Midlands, but police officers tracked them down to Bolton in the early hours of the following morning.

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