theboltonnews.co.uk media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place theboltonnews.co.uk in the centre. We have seen it on 4 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is theboltonnews.co.uk biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place theboltonnews.co.uk in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is theboltonnews.co.uk left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place theboltonnews.co.uk in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is theboltonnews.co.uk reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for theboltonnews.co.uk are Ad Fontes Media: High factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What theboltonnews.co.uk has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with theboltonnews.co.uk’s own report linked underneath.
The second series of The Celebrity Traitors has an official premiere date of Thursday, October 1, 2026. The show will air weekly on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, featuring a new segment and a cast including Amol Rajan and Bella Ramsey.
theboltonnews.co.uk reported it asCelebrity Traitors fans all say the same thing about BBC show as Traitors are chosen (opens theboltonnews.co.uk in a new tab)
IKEA is investing €1.2 billion to lower prices on hundreds of products across Europe. The initiative aims to make home furnishings more accessible amid rising living costs, with average reductions ranging from 15% to 25%. Iconic items like the KALLAX and BILLY ranges are included.
theboltonnews.co.uk reported it asWorld-famous furniture firm slashes prices on hundreds of products in 22 stores (opens theboltonnews.co.uk in a new tab)
Actress Hayden Panettiere, 36, was found dead in her Greenville, South Carolina apartment on 16 August 2026. Police and the coroner’s office reported no signs of foul play. Her father confirmed her death in a statement to ABC News, and tributes followed from co-stars and fans.
theboltonnews.co.uk reported it asHeroes, Nashville and Scream star Hayden Panettiere dies aged 36 (opens theboltonnews.co.uk in a new tab)
Ed Miliband met US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington to discuss security, Ukraine and Gaza, while ignoring questions about his past criticism of Donald Trump as 'racist' and 'misogynistic'. The White House had reportedly expressed concerns over Miliband’s appointment.
theboltonnews.co.uk reported it asMiliband ignores questions about past views on Trump during Washington trip (opens theboltonnews.co.uk in a new tab)
Who says so
2 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
High factuality
Who owns it
- Newsquestunknowndirect owner
- GannettMedia Conglomerateparent group
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Stretford, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom
- Official site
- theboltonnews.co.uk
- Seen publishing on
- theboltonnews.co.uk
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 4
- Reports listed
- 4
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
4 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. theboltonnews.co.uk is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 4 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of theboltonnews.co.uk: its report arrived a median of 20 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 21 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 21 September 2026. Ratings pulled 6 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as theboltonnews.co.uk, also publishing from United Kingdom, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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