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Bolton's unique place in the pandemic that changed everything

Bolton was quick to understand the need to get vaccines out to communities as well as getting people to come to clinics - but now the town needs answers from the COVID Inquiry
By Kevin Gopal
The potential and the problems with Levelling Up in Bolton

Levelling Up was a key part of the Conservative manifesto in 2019 - but spending increasingly limited funds to even compete for investment can be problematic
By Kevin Gopal
I grew up in poverty in Bolton - kids today have it worse

Hilary Mitchell grew up in poverty in Bolton in the 90s. Here she explores what poverty looked like then - and what it means today
By Hilary Mitchell
Bolton's independent brewers and an innovating industry in distress

“The government has put the small brewing industry in such distress by failing to cut VAT..." - as brewers in and around Bolton innovate and battle for success, at least 100 nationwide have closed and for many - simply surviving is the day-to-day priority
By Kevin Gopal
Grassroots artists putting Bolton's culture front and centre

Local arts organisations are pushing for culture to be the catalyst for the town’s rebirth
By Laura Davis
It's unavoidable - Bolton is in a rental crisis

There is nowhere in the UK where the cost of renting has increased as much as in Bolton
By Antonia Charlesworth Stack
Life on the Johnson Fold estate with the undeserved reputation

“It’s sad that it’s got a reputation in certain parts of Bolton, a very undeserved reputation” 
By Kevin Gopal
Inside Bolton's ambitious plans to treble town centre residents

The council’s masterplan envisages adding accommodation for 5,000 people to the town centre
By Kevin Gopal
Is the Gaza conflict leaving thousands in Bolton politically homeless?

The recent by-election in Rochdale, won not by Labour or Conservative but George Galloway, raised questions about whether the Gaza vote could impact broader election outcomes
By George Francis Lee
Bolton predicted to show nowhere is safe for Conservatives in the general election

Bolton West is the Conservatives’ most secure seat in Greater Manchester - but YouGov has them losing
By Kevin Gopal
'Ringleader' who attacked police and made vile racist and xenophobic rants jailed

Footage released by police shows John Robinson during his arrest as he played a 'key role' in the disorder on Saturday 3 August in Blackpool town centre
By Ed Walker
Controversial blackface memorabilia to form part of new museum collection

Bought by Blackpool Council as part of a private collection, the new Showtown museum collection includes a photograph and flyer from the 1920s showing the offensive practice of 'blacking up'.
By Michael Holmes
“Is anywhere in the world safe?”: Asylum seeking women on far-right riots

The Lead speaks to three asylum seeking and refugee women about their experiences of the violence seen across the country in the past week.
By Lauren Crosby Medlicott
Condemning violence alone won’t stop the far-right – Britain must reject xenophobia once and for all

Anti-immigrant rhetoric isn’t acceptable in any form. Ceding ground on this issue sets a ticking time bomb.

 
By Diyora Shadijanova
Exclusive: Laurence Fox seen on flight to Ireland as Starmer vows crackdown on far-right

The former actor was seen on a Ryanair flight to Cork on Saturday, 3 August as the Prime Minister slammed far-right activists "whipping up action" and "running away".
Riots show why British Jews must reject fake solidarity from the right

From rioters to ministers, the far right has long wooed British Jews for its own ends. It’s time to see it for what it really is.
By Em Hilton
By targeting "multiculturalism", the British far right launches an attack on all of us

For years, the extreme right and its legitimisers picked off minorities one by one. Now they're unveiling a wider war. 
By Diyora Shadijanova
A mom arrested over a birthmark? Hospitals must be held accountable for medical racism

A Nepalese mother was arrested in an NHS hospital because staff mistook a common birthmark for child abuse. Structural racism in medicine needs to end, and only structural upheaval can end it.
By Leah Borromeo
From Sherlock Holmes to Line of Duty, Britain loves copaganda

How the nation’s long love affair with police stories continues to shape our relationship with policing today.

 
By Leah Cowan
Blackpool's £65m Multiversity project means second forced upheaval in three years for one business

Omasan and his business have been by Blackpool’s ambitious development projects, which have delivered blow after blow to his trade
By Rachel Howarth
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