US President Donald Trump has pledged to send every American adult 5,000 dollars (£3,691) if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections, in an extraordinary gambit to ...

An agreement has been signed to bring forward a huge £500M investment in more than 4,000 health jobs and 2,000 new homes.

A school in Bolton is to close early next week, and its for a good reason. Smithills School will close at 12.45pm on September 16 to prepare for its Open Evening. The school said staff and pupils will ...

A new “cleaner streets action plan” to tackle fly tipping could be introduced with an immediate pilot scheme using CCTV ...

Students at University Collegiate School (UCS) in Bolton have returned for the new academic year sporting a new-look uniform ...

An abusive father burned his six-year-old son with a lighter and spoon “to stop him sucking his thumb”, a court heard.

Bolton's Amy Nuttall has landed herself the lead part in a dark new TV thriller based on a best-selling Graham Norton novel.

A Horwich town councillor is calling on MPs to push for changes to national planning policy after United Utilities withdrew ...

Six entries stood their ground with Ballydoyle whittling a five-strong initial cast down to one in the form of Sergei Diaghilev, a winner of two of his three races including the Listed Coolmore Stud ...

A young father is nearing the end of his challenge to complete 39 marathons in 39 weeks, one in each of England’s historic ...

Liverpool have been accused of being like the ‘Spice Boys’ team of the 1990s by former Sky Sports football presenter Richard Keys.