Manager Alex Neil paid tribute to two-goal substitute Sean Maguire after the Republic of Ireland international earned Preston a 3-1 Sky Bet Championship derby win at Bolton.

Two pensioners, including a man in his 70s, have been injured in a suspected gas explosion in Bolton.

A 39-year-old man who dropped a toddler into a river from Astley Bridge in Bolton has been released by police.

People in Bolton are being warned to keep away from a dangerous dog on the loose after armed police shot dead two pitbull-type animals that attacked a man and woman in the street.

IN the late 1930s, the Lancashire mill town of Bolton was the subject of a new kind of research to see how its inhabitants worked and lived.

Liverpool have made their third signing of the summer with Bolton goalkeeper Adam Bogdan, another free agent, agreeing terms.

We have missed the pageantry badly this last three years. The classic imagery: a small boy’s little face creasing in a flood of tears; an obese, topless man convulsing in triumph.

BOURNEMOUTH 3 BOLTON 0: Bournemouth will play in the Premier League next season for the first time in their 116-year history after cruising past 10-man Bolton 3-0 in front of a disbelieving Dean Court.