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View from the top not always better

11:19am Monday 8th February 2010

ONCE upon a time, when more working people could think in terms of developing a career, many of them set their sights on the top job in their company or organisation.

Rower Rachel should have place on statue

11:20am Monday 8th February 2010

FIFTY more local people are to have their “sportraits” — pictures to those of us with an aversion to gimmicky terms — on the Spirit of Sport statue in Horwich.

A long term plan needed for elderly

11:12am Monday 8th February 2010

OLD people are in the news at the moment.

Be baffled no longer

11:13am Monday 8th February 2010

BUS services in Harwood will be under the spotlight when the main part of the next Bradshaw Area Forum meeting gets under way at 7pm in Harwood Library this Wednesday evening.

Another case of ‘use it or lose it’ on the buses

11:15am Monday 8th February 2010

I LIKED the idea of the free Bolton shuttle bus when a trial started in October, 2008.

Actors took realism a drop too far

11:16am Monday 8th February 2010

ACTORS strive for realism and the very best have a gift that transports the audience to the emotive heart of the action.

Re-think time on roadside memorials?

11:18am Monday 8th February 2010

YOU might remember that I predicted opposition to Bolton Council’s plans to establish regulations for the roadside memorials that are a sad feature of modern life.

Latest honour for Olympic golden boy is in the right Spirit

12:03pm Wednesday 3rd February 2010

IT’S a fitting acknowledgement of sporting prowess that 50 more local heroes are to be added to the impressive Spirit of Sport monument.

Time is running out for feckless

12:04pm Wednesday 3rd February 2010

NEVER have our health and social care services been more under siege than as we enter a new decade.

Clean up your act... or pay up

12:05pm Wednesday 3rd February 2010

SENSIBLE people all over the Bolton borough will welcome a zero tolerance policy on dog dirt.

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