AN new exhibition which takes visitors on a journey to Bolton s past, present and future has opened at Bolton Train Station. Mayor of Bolton Linda Thomas officially opened the exhibition curated by Bolton-based arts and heritage organisation Live from Worktown at the Platform Five Gallery. The changing face of the town is explored through photographs by Julia Uttley and cartoons by Dave Burnham as well as 12 winning photographs submitted by local people in a photography competition as part of the launch focusing ‘How Bolton is Changing’. The exhibition will run every Thursday, Friday and Saturday from July 1 to 24 from 10am to 4pm.
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Care homes in Covid hotspot Bolton have been told to hold fire on plans to permit more visitors next week amid surging cases of the Indian variant.
Schools in the Greater Manchester borough are also urging pupils and staff to keep wearing masks in classrooms next week, despite the measure due to be scrapped nationally on Monday.
The next step in Boris Johnson s roadmap out of lockdown says care home residents will be allowed five named visitors from May 17, up from the two currently permitted.
But councillors and public health leaders in Bolton have taken matters into their own hands after the local infection rate more than doubled in the last week week.
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Boris Johnson today admitted he was anxious about the Indian variant spreading rapidly in the UK and warned the Government would rule nothing out in its effort to contain it – as official figures revealed weekly Covid cases have doubled in four hotspots where the strain is surging.
The Prime Minister claimed England s lockdown-easing plans on Monday and June 21 were still on track despite cases of the B.1.617.2 strain also tripling nationally in the last seven days – but hinted localised measures could be imposed.
This could include surge vaccinations , in which jabs are offered to all adults in certain areas, rather than prioritising older groups, as well as surge testing which is already being used to tackle other variants.