The Latest Breaking News from Bolton

‘Wandering peacocks of Bolton’ enter borough’s election campaign

More than one extravagantly feathered bird has been spotted on the streets of the town during the election campaign

Manchester Evening News · May 4, 2022

Greater Manchester local elections 2022: In-depth analysis of every borough... including an 'all out' race, our political hot potato and a controversial new battleground

Boris Johnson will be tested at the ballot box for the first time since the Downing Street lockdown parties scandal

Manchester Evening News · May 4, 2022

Teenage boy hospitalised after being hurt in woodland fire involving paint cannister

Firefighters were called to Bolton this evening

Manchester Evening News · May 2, 2022

Driver arrested after U-turning into oncoming traffic on busy road during police chase

The driver was arrested after a foot chase with police

Manchester Evening News · Apr 25, 2022

Comedy legend Peter Kay tells fans he's 'doing great' in rare public appearance

Popular comedian Peter Kay helped launch a new wheelchair-accessible 'wheelyboat' at a centre near his home town of Bolton

Chronicle Live · Apr 24, 2022

Cheapest properties you can buy in Greater Manchester - from a £3,000 nursery to a £50,000 converted church

There are many bargains on the more affordable end of the region's property market

Manchester Evening News · Apr 23, 2022

Bodybuilder calling himself 'the hardest c***' killed stranger who stepped on his foot

"Hateful" Robert Owen Greenhalgh fatally punched Robert Smethurst as the dad-of-two celebrated his birthday in Bolton town centre after he'd apologised for stepping on the drug-addled bodybuilder's foot

Daily Mirror · Apr 22, 2022

Cocaine and steroid addled bodybuilder who called himself the 'hardest c*** in the North West' killed loving dad in an unprovoked nightclub attack

Robert Owen Greenhalgh punched 36-year-old Robert Smethurst in a club in Bolton

Manchester Evening News · Apr 22, 2022

End to family's wait for answers after tragedy of ten-day-old who 'would have survived' with proper care

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust have accepted liability into Kingsley Olasupo's death - a full inquest is now due to take place

Manchester Evening News · Apr 22, 2022

Parents of six-week-old baby say they are 'furious' with Bolton hospital after being prescribed 'potentially fatal' dose

'We were told that had we given that amount to him, he’d have overdosed and be dead by the end of the week'

Manchester Evening News · Apr 22, 2022