Farnworth

Woman taken to hospital after three car crash in Astley Bridge

Junction of Waters Meeting Road and Blackburn Road (Image: Google Maps)A woman has been taken to hospital following a crash involving three cars on a main road in Astley Bridge yesterday evening, December 30.Greater Manchester Police, fire crews and th…

Bolton train stations busier this year than last figures show

New ONS statistics on train station usage[1] have been released. The stats show passenger entries, exits and interchanges for every station in the country from April 2022 to March 2023. 
Compared to the same stats from April 2021 to March 2022, most of…

BREAKING: M61 closed due to ‘ongoing police incident’

Part of the M61[1] motorway through Bolton[2] has been closed due to an ‘ongoing police incident’. The southbound carriageway between junctions four for Farnworth and junction five for Westhoughton has been shut.
Diversions have been put in place, but …

M61: Emergency services called to ‘rescue incident’

The M61 southbound was closed between junction 5 and 4 at just after 9pm on the evening of Thursday September 26 as emergency services arrived on the scene.
They were called to assist someone in need of “rescue” on St Helens Road.
A Greater Manchester …

Rail line blocked between Blackburn and Bolton due to tree

Services are being disrupted between Blackburn[1] and Bolton due to the tree being on the line near Darwen.
Disruption is expected until around 8.00am, and road transport has been requested to run between the two stations.
As a result of the issue, tra…

Grieving villager’s garden wall demolished again in crash

Michael Aspden’s house was struck again by a car (Image: GMP)A villager whose garden wall has been demolished in a crash again has called for action to slow down cars.Michael Aspden was at his home on Bury Old Road watching the FA Cup final when he hea…

Farnworth: Appeal after robbery at shop on Brackley Street

Officers were called to a report of a robbery on Brackley Street in the town centre at around 3.45pm on March 9.
According to police, staff were threatened with a weapon and jewellery was taken from the shop.
They want to speak to this man, seen all in…

Vancouver police move in on Downtown Eastside homeless …

Efforts to dismantle an encampment on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside were met with resistance Wednesday, and at least one person has been arrested.
In a social media post, the Vancouver Police Department said that people within a “protest group have beg…