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Second chance to go back to 'school'

3:00pm Tuesday 6th January 2009

A STAGGERING 12 per cent of young people in the Bolton are classed as “drop-outs”.

Teacher profile

Sally McFarlane

3:00pm Tuesday 6th January 2009

Name: Sally McFarlane Age: 45 Years School: Ladywood School Family: Married to Stuart (not a teacher!) for 23 years. Mum to two daughters, aged 16 and 14 years and Harvey the Labrador puppy.

Pupils in festive fun run to raise charity cash

Students at Canon Slade, Bradshaw, Bolton, take part in a race to raise cash for the Guide Dogs for the Blind

11:19pm Wednesday 17th December 2008

SCORES of pupils and teachers celebrated the end of the school term with a festive fun run for Atherton charity.

A new future for flagship academies

7:50am Wednesday 17th December 2008

A NEW era will dawn for three of the borough’s schools as they become part of the Government’s flagship academy programme.

Anger as three Bolton schools are set to become academies

Pupils were among the anti-academy protesters outside Bolton Town Hall before the meeting which decided the fate of the three schools

7:40am Wednesday 17th December 2008

TOWN hall chiefs have decided to turn three schools into academies, sparking shouts of “shame” from protesters.

Three Bolton school closures: More details

NEW START: Hayward School, in Great Lever, could be replaced by an academy under the Bolton Council project

4:00pm Tuesday 16th December 2008

Three Bolton schools are to close and reopen as private sector-backed academies, it was revealed today.

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Young apprentices earn while learning

Jessica Forrest and Kiraren Watson

4:40pm Tuesday 16th December 2008

YOUNG apprentices at Bolton Community College are on the first rung of the career ladder.

Boxing classes are big hit with pupils

Paul Priest, right, gives Tyler Williams, aged 15, some sparing lessons at AAC gym in Bolton

3:00pm Tuesday 9th December 2008

A NEW lesson is proving to be a hit inside and outside the classroom.

Bolton bakers help keep pupils safe in the dark

Bakers help keep pupils safe in the dark

9:40am Monday 8th December 2008

YOUNGSTERS will stay safe by being seen.

Bolton misses snow, but 13 schools close

Snow causes traffic chaos

10:00am Thursday 4th December 2008

Although Bolton appears to have so far escaped the snow which is covering much of the North of the country, 13 schools in the area have closed.

Firm donates 350 trees to school in Bolton

TREES COMPANY: Pupil Jade Sharples, aged 12, who helped to plant the saplings

8:00am Thursday 27th November 2008

DAN Chesney remembers many cold, wet and windy games of football on his old school field.

Students find online path to university

Danny Wilson, from Little Hulton, uses the GMSA Pathways service

9:10am Tuesday 25th November 2008

GONE are the days when the only qualifications available to young people were GCSEs and A-levels.

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Many accidents involving children are the fault of the children themselves, either through arrogance, like the secondary school pupils crossing the roads, or the younger children not taught better ways to deal with traffic and copying the “bigger” children in the way they cross the road.  − Readers Letter

Not all accidents are the motorist's fault »

I would have thought that shipping the stuff abroad, which in itself involves burning fuel, is just a movement of the problem. Surely, the idea of recycling is that you deal with your own mess as you make it, on your own doorstep.  − Readers Letter

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