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Robert Howarth, veteran Labour politician from Bolton who was an MP in the 1960s and later council leader – obituary A lorry driver’s son, Howarth was brought up in a Tory home and flirted with the Young Conservatives before joining the Labour Party in 1945 2 May 2021 • 3:34pm Robert Howarth, Labour candidate in the 1960 Bolton East by-election: he was narrowly beaten by the Conservative Edwin Taylor, whom he would oust in the general election four years later Credit: David Thorpe/ANL/Shutterstock Robert Howarth, who has died aged 93, was Labour MP for Bolton East from 1964 to 1970, and chairman of the party’s backbench aviation committee; but his parliamentary career was dwarfed by his four decades of service on Bolton council, including 24 years as its leader until he lost his seat in 2004. ....
Updated: January 3, 2021, 8:02 pm Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A car and a van were “demolished” after a crash on a quiet Elgin street just before the bells on Hogmanay. At 11.22pm on New Year’s Eve, mum and dad Andrea and Andras Szabo and their children were preparing to bring in 2021 when their house on the town’s Bain Avenue suddenly shook following a “big bang” outside. When they went to see what happened, they found a car had collided with a van parked in their driveway and Mrs Szabo’s parked car, which was sent rolling along the road. ....