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With construction powering ahead on the re-boot of Farnworth town centre the hunt for operators to set up shop there has started. Developers Capital&Centric are searching for businesses that wish to set up or expand to Farnworth Green, the new development set to transform the town’s outdated precinct.

Bolton has been named Greater Manchester’s town of culture for 2024. The award will bring £50,000 to support a year-long programme of new events.

One in five Greater Manchester children have not had their full childhood immunisations by the time they get to primary school, new figures show. Health bosses say the trend of declining childhood vaccinations 'needs to be urgently reversed', with the ongoing measles outbreak serving as a 'reminder that these diseases have not gone away'.

New coroners’ courts to serve three Greater Manchester boroughs are intended to lessen any distress for grieving relatives. The expanded courts and office facilities in Bolton will benefit families and residents attending Manchester West Coroner’s Office.

Inspectors have rated adult cares services in Bolton which provide rehabilitation for people in their own homes as ‘good’ in all areas. Bolton Council’s adult social care home support reablement service has been awarded the positive rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

One of Bolton’s most iconic pubs is set for a major transformation as Yates’ Wine Lodge becomes a a Slug and Lettuce bar. The historic Yates’ pub, a Grade II listed building on Bradshawgate, has been a stop off on the social scene for generations of Boltonians enjoying a night out.

As has been widely covered, there are huge changes in how voters will cast their ballot on Thursday, May 4 with the introduction of a photo identification requirement. The new requirement will come into effect for the local elections across Greater Manchester.

Bolton is set to celebrate King Charles III coronation in style with street parties being held across the borough. Patriotic residents have lodged applications for road-closure street parties with knees ups taking place everywhere from Kearsley in the south of the borough to Horwich and Blackrod in the north and all parts in between.

Town halls across Greater Manchester have paid out £1.1 million on consultants to help try and obtain Levelling Up funding.

The Primark store in Bolton is to relocate it has been announced. The high-street fashion giant's store is currently housed within Crompton Place mall.

No retailer will take on Bolton’s M&S site after it closes in April, the borough’s council leader has claimed. The town centre was dealt a body blow in January when the high street giant announced the closure of the 100,000 square foot store on Deansgate.

Spectacular images have been released of how Bolton central library is set to look after a £3.7M refurbishment. Bolton Council has revealed the concept images of the new building, which will be closed for the next 12 months as work progresses.

Covid relief funds of around £3m are to be handed to hundreds of firms with high levels of unpaid business rates and to 38 other companies who failed to apply to the scheme. Bolton Council said 'take up has been low' for the Covid-19 Additional Relief Fund (CARF), a business rates relief fund of £5,697,827 which the authority received from central government earlier this year.

A ‘stable block’ built on green belt land more closely resembled a luxury home, a planning inspector has ruled. Bolton Council said the building on the rural outskirts of the town at The Courts Yard, Boot Lane, Doffcocker, was built with discrepancies including larger than permitted windows and door openings ‘not suitable for a functioning stable’.

Tributes have been paid to a former Bolton Council leader who has died suddenly at the age of 80. Cliff Morris represented the Halliwell Ward from 1983 before standing down before the local elections this year.

A £50M scheme to improve road junctions north of Bolton prosposes the installing traffic lights at several roundabouts along De Havilland Way. The proposed De Havilland Way Corridor Scheme has been developed as part of the £50m Levelling Up Fund Round Two with Bolton Council hoping to receive government funding for the project.

Supermarket chain Aldi plan to build a huge new store close to a major roundabout in Horwich. The global retail giant has lodged detailed proposals to develop a site at the junction of De Havilland Way and Chorley New Road, near the Beehive roundabout.

The decision for Bolton not to bid for city status in a Queen’s jubilee competition was ‘made in secret’ and the public and political representatives were not told, a leading councillor has alleged.

Residents across parts of Bolton have had to put their bins out for a second day running after dozens of streets were missed from collection.

Bolton Council is to axe a quarter of workers from a service which aims to improve the lives of young children.

Bolton Council has been accused of ‘dropping the ball’ after it emerged it missed the deadline for submitting an £16m levelling up funding bid.

A busy road in Bolton will close overnight for it to be repaired following a 'bridge strike'.

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Bolton rose again to more than 200 cases per 100,000 people.

Bolton have been slapped with £100 fines after breaching the 10pm curfew.

A third case of coronavirus has been confirmed in Bolton .