Paul Ankers, our Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Bolton North East, has launched his new Facebook and Twitter pages to coincide with an interview with Total Politics magazine.
In the interview Paul says: “Bolton North East needs a champion. A constituency MP that would fight for the area rather than get sucked into the Westminster set.”
“It...
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A series of open evenings aimed at sharing the borough’s plans for Building Schools for the Future will commence this week.
Each school in Phase One of the BSF Programme will show their plans to students, parents and the wider community during a 90 minute drop-in session. Members of the community are encouraged to...
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Donal O’Hanlon, Liberal Democrat Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the Bolton South East Constituency, has said that questions should be asked of the council and police over a series of arson attacks that have blighted Bolton.
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Little Lever has become LITTER Lever – and Darcy Lever fares little better.
Eric Hyde has been getting his hands dirty with some of our area’s worst grot spots.
He has reported dozens of litter problems and says the problem needs tackling soon.
Eric said: “Residents are telling me there are particularly fed up with cans and...
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Paul Ankers is the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Bolton North East, we can reveal.
Paul is a father of two and a Councillor on Manchester City Council & Greater Manchester Fire Authority.
“I began in Politics in late 2003,” Paul said, “winning in 2007.”
“I learnt a great deal about campaigning in those years, but not...
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Bolton will have to deal with potholes and broken road surfaces after the snow and ice has gone, a leading Liberal Democrat has warned.
Councillor Roger Hayes, Leader of the Bolton Liberal Democrat group on Bolton Council, said: “Eventually this cold weather will end, but then other problems will start. First, there will be a danger...
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Bolton’s public transport network was plunged into chaos this week because of the heavy snowfall.
At one point, all bus routes in Bolton were suspended and the station was even closed.
Transport is slowly returning to normal, but some roads still remain icy.
Bolton Council has been hard at work gritting all of its priority roads.
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Dear friend,
Ever since I became leader of the Liberal Democrats I have been travelling the country, holding public meetings, listening and talking to the people I meet. The economy is in a mess, people are losing jobs and everywhere I go, people are angry at the way politicians have let them down.
The two old...
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The council budget will now be preceded by a series of public meetings which will be held across the borough.
A series of six pre-budget consultation meetings will take place ahead of Bolton Council’s budget being set.
However the council told us that the meetings “are not area forums and other issues will not be considered...
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If you want to know how committed a Government is to fairness, then you need look no further than its tax system.
Labour has created a tax regime where the poorest pay a bigger slice of their income than the richest. Polluters are allowed to get away with harming our environment without paying for the...
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