How Bolton became 'Hollywood of the North'

Stars treading the town's famous cobbles recently include Cillian Murphy in Peaky Blinders and Happy Valley's arch villain ...

Rowan Atkinson's life from Mr Bean to famous girlfriend 30 years his junior

Actor Rowan Atkinson is one of the UK's most beloved comedians and the star of a host of classic sitcoms and films but ...

Three things Erling Haaland did at the Bernabeu that hint at his desire to play for Real Madrid

On a dramatic Wednesday night at the Santiago Bernabeu, where Manchester City came from behind to beat Real Madrid 2-1 in a ...
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‘Hollywood of the north’: Film office launches as Victorian streets draw BBC, Netflix and Hollywood crews

A ‘film office’ has been launched to attempt to capitalise on the unlikely ‘Hollywood of the North’ reputation of Bolton.

The great Polish exodus: The arrival of 100,000s of Poles changed the face of Britain, but now they're returning home in droves for a better life in their low-tax, booming ...

New statistics reveal that while 7,000 Poles arrived in the year ending last June, 25,000 returned home: a net outflow of ...