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Joe Harrigan

Reporter · GB

Indexed articles, last 90 days
268
Latest publication
Oct 2, 2026
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Top 1M sites
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Jul 4, 2026

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  1. Article · Oct 2, 2026 · Joe Harrigan

    Three men deny rape and child sex offence charges against teenage girls (opens the original)

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    Three men from Bolton, Bury and Accrington have denied a wide range of child sex offences against mainly teenage girls more than 20 years ago. Ahsfaq Khan, 46, Qamar Jehangeer, 44, and Zaheer Iqbal, 52, were charged earlier this year with abusing girls in the Bury area between the late 1990s and early 2000s. This week each of the three men appeared in person before Manchester Crown Court where they denied all the alleged offences put to them ahead of a trial early next year. Judge Paul Lawton sa

  2. Article · Oct 2, 2026 · Joe Harrigan

    Plans go in to build 90 new 'affordable' houses on village land (opens the original)

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    Find, save and share Public Notices that affect you in the area. The Public Notice Portal carries statutory public notices published in local newspapers and is the fastest and most effective way of finding out what is happening in YOUR neighbourhood. Plans have gone in to build 90 new "affordable" homes on village land. Earlier this month The Bolton News reported that according to Cllr Martyn Cox, of Heaton, Lostock and Chew Moor, plans were "imminent" for land off St Johns Road, Chew Moor. A fu

  3. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Joe Harrigan

    Would-be taxi driver failed to declare conviction (opens the original)

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    A would-be taxi driver has been refused a licence after failing to declare that he had been convicted for using a mobile phone while driving. According to newly released documents, a behind closed doors meeting of Bolton Council’s licencing committee was held and given a report setting out the applicant’s misconduct. The applicant attended as part of a bid to be awarded a private hire drivers’ licence, which would have given him the right to take pre-booked taxi journeys. The minutes said: “The

  4. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Joe Harrigan

    Town centre function rooms set to be turned into flats under plans (opens the original)

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    Find, save and share Public Notices that affect you in the area. The Public Notice Portal carries statutory public notices published in local newspapers and is the fastest and most effective way of finding out what is happening in YOUR neighbourhood. A scheme has been put forward to create new flats above shops and takeaways in the town centre. If approved, the plan will see eight new self-contained flats created in what have previously been function rooms on the first and second floors above fo

  5. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Joe Harrigan

    'Now its time to deliver' on fly-tipping, rubbish, overgrowth and darkened park (opens the original)

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    A major clean-up effort has helped an area blighted by fly tipping, rubbish and darkened streets. This comes after people living around Lumsden Street and Clarendon Street just outside the town centre said they had been dealing with persistent problems. These included issues with the roads, street lighting, littering, a lack of bins and a darkened park. Cllr Zan Arif, of the Queens Park and Central ward, said: "This area has been neglected for a long time, and it's nice to show people we're here

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