WHAT a pity that the popular tea room in Bolton’s Smithills Hall is closing after December 24. Family-run SM Restaurants, which operates a number of restaurants locally, opened the tea room in ...

THE café that ran at Smithills Hall was excellent – a sentiment agreed by many. The company that ran it, initially on a six-month trial in 2015, made a great success of it. The food and service ...

An £8.5m conservation scheme to protect threatened upland habitat has been set up by the Woodland Trust. The trust is buying the 1,700 acre (690 hectare) Smithills estate, on Winter Hill near ...