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A ‘tenacious and dedicated’ councillor has resigned after being diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s in his 50s. Craig Rotheram was elected to Bolton Council in May 2023 and represented the Horwich North ward for the Horwich and Blackrod First party.

A decision to write off a debt of almost £1.5m owed to Bolton Council by car parking giant NCP has been slammed by councillors. The council, which has had to make more than £40m of cuts in the past four years, works with National Car Parks Ltd (NCP) who signed a 50-year contract in 2009 to operate the multi-storey car parks at the Octagon, Topp Way and Deane Road, as well as surface car parks on Ashburner Street and the Octagon.

THE cast of Fame Academy looked unrecognisable as they reunited a whopping 20 years after the show. Taking to social media David Sneddon, who won the first ever series of the BBC One music competition, posted some group snaps.

A furious row has erupted between councillors over the decision to bid for a new national transport body to base its headquarters in Bolton town centre.

The Chase host Bradley Walsh was left speechless when David Grant made a flirty comment to Chaser Jenny Ryan.Singer David's cheeky remark was made in a celebrity edition of the hit ITV game show, called The Chase: Celebrity Special, which aired in 2018.The comedian and vocal coach, 65, was the first star to step up to the podium and face Chaser Jenny 'The Vixen' Ryan in the studio - in a bid to win a hefty cash prize for charity.On his star-studded team was comedian Andy Hamilton, Paralympian Jonnie Peacock, and doctor Pixie McKenna.David got off to a successful start as he racked up £6,000 in his cashbuilder round, so it was time for him to receive his three cash offers from Jenny.The Vixen gave David a high offer of £36k and a low offer of just £1k, Bradley asked him: "Let's face the table, David. What do you want to do?"David then shocked Bradley with his saucy comment to Jenny, describing her as a "temptress".Before choosing the £6k offer, he said: "Six thousand is good.

REMEMBER sitting on the sofa on a Friday night watching Fame Academy as a bunch of talented singers battled it out on stage? Well the 2002 show may have only lasted for two series but where exactly are the stars from the short-lived favourite now? While the ITV equivalent Pop Idol, was led by Simon Cowell and his bunch of harsh critics, BBC's Fame Academy saw the smiley Cat Deeley and Patrick Kielty take on hosting duties. The participants would live together Big Brother style while being given training sessions by vocal coaches Carrie and David Grant.

Hollyoaks star Talia Grant has changed their name to Tylan after coming out as non-binary.The talented youngster, who plays Brooke Hathaway in the Channel 4, is the teenager of Fame Academy icons and vocal coaches Carrie and David Grant.Tylan, 19, became the first autistic star to land a role in a British TV dramaand made their first appearance in Hollyoaks village back in July 2018.Brooke is an adopted member of the Osborne family, who is also autistic.The soap star was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome in 2009, at the age of seven, and has spoken about the difficulties they faced while attending school, due to there being little awareness on the syndrome at the time.In December last year, Tylan described coming out as non-binary, a

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Carrie and David Grant are a couple with copious amounts of love to give after deciding to adopt another child when they were already parents to three. The spouses, who are best known for coaching on shows like Pop Idol and Fame Academy, share three daughters Olivia, Talia and Imogen. Around eight years ago, they began the process of adopting a two-year-old boy, Nathan, who would complete their family. However it’s been a particularly challenging journey for the TV stars as Nathan has special needs – the now 10-year-old has attachment difficulties and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). Raising children with learning difficulties wasn’t new to Carrie, 55, and David, 64, as each of their biological children have similar challenges. But they

Express.co.uk: “I think one of the things we wanted to do as a family is to show the impact of bullying on the whole family.“So Talia, our child who is 18-years-old and is in Hollyoaks, they were really badly bullied to the point where it made them mentally ill.”The vocal coach went on to explain that Talia was unable to escape the bullies, as they continued to target them online when they were in hospital.Carrie added: “And even when they were in hospital, they were still being bullied and we tried to get the school to do something and they really did so very little that we thought this has to be a multi-pronged attack.“So to come at bullying, you have to come as parents and talk to your children about what it looks like to be actively

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this link, enter your email address, and select 'MyBolton News'. It's as simple as that."It’s safe to say the security brackets which held the wheels in place were not in good condition," said Horwich town councillor David Grant."It was disappointing that some youths took advantage of that to push the wheels from the tracks, not just because of the damage and disrespect to the historic past of our town but more importantly this stunt could have gone very wrong and thankfully nobody was hurt.