The candidates for this year's local elections in Bolton have been revealed.

Nominations closed at 1pm today and all entrants have now been verified.

This year's list includes a 21-year-old part-time supermarket worker and, for the first time in Bolton's history, a candidate for the far-right political group, the BNP.

The list is:

ASTLEY BRIDGE Clive Atty (Lib-Dem) Joe Hayes (Lab) * Stuart Lever (Con)

BRADSHAW * Diana Brierley (Con) Jim Cottam (Lab) Steve Howarth (Lib-Dem) Anne Mumberson (Green)

BREIGHTMET * John Byrne (Lab) Ray Hill (Lib-Dem) Lynne Hyland (Green) Arthur Norris (Con)

BROMLEY CROSS * Norman Critchley (Con) Christine MacPherson Lib-Dem) Liz Spencer (Green) Anthony Muscat Terrible (Lab)

CROMPTON Don Fairclough (Con) Emma Scowcroft (Lab) Anne Warren (Lib-Dem)

FARNWORTH Tariq Aziz (Lib-Dem) Jean Cottam (Lab) Ria Greenhalgh (Green) Ruth Kenny (Con)

GREAT LEVER Wendy Connor (Lib-Dem) * Mohammed Idrees (Con) Alan Johnson (Green) Madeline Murray (Lab)

HALLIWELL Martin Grindrod (Con) Martin McLoughlin (Lib-Dem) * Linda Thomas (Lab)

HARPER GREEN * Margaret Clare (Lab) Dave Connor (Lib-Dem) Robert Tyler (Con)

HEATON & LOSTOCK * Bob Allen (Con) Jonathon Evans (Lib-Dem) John Gillatt (Lab)

HORWICH & BLACKROD Ray Barrow (Con) Peter McGheean (Lib-Dem) Isobel Seddon (Lab)

HORWICH NORTH EAST Kevin Jones (Lab) * Bob Ronson (Lib-Dem) Steven Wallan (Con)

HULTON * Phil Ashcroft (Con) Mike Francis (Lab) Linden Greensitt (Lib-Dem)

KEARSLEY Diane Bamber (Con) Guy Harkin (Lab) * Margaret Rothwell (Lib-Dem)

LITTLE LEVER & DARCY LEVER Alwynne Cartmell (Green) * Tony Connell (Lab) Rees Gibbon (Con) Eric Hyde (Lib-Dem)

RUMWORTH * Ebrahim Adia (Lab) Sandra Bridger (Lib-Dem) John (Jack) Heyes (Con)

SMITHILLS Dennis Bray (Con) Rachel Mann (Green) * Carole Swarbrick (Lib-Dem) Jim Shaw (Lab)

TONGE WITH THE HAULGH Anthony Backhouse (Veritas) Nigel Ford (Con) Rosalind Harasiwka (Lib-Dem) * Elaine Sherrington (Lab) James Tomkinson (Green) David Wood (BNP)

WESTHOUGHTON NORTH & CHEW MOOR Pat Allen (Con) Ron Halliwell (Lib-Dem) * Arthur Price (Lab) Laura Spencer (Green)

WESTHOUGHTON SOUTH David Chadwick (Lab) Eric Hyland (Green) Pam Rigby (Lib-Dem) Christine Wild (Con)

KEY: Lib-Dem (Liberal Democrat Party); Lab (Labour Party); Con (Conservative Party); BNP (British National Party); Ind (Independent); Green (Green Party); Veritas (Veritas Party); BNP (British National Party).

* Denotes sitting councillor.