Queens Park, where some of Gay Wharton's closest friends gathered to remember her. Friends said that The Foundations classic is a song which would have made the former mayoress 'laugh' if she had been there herself and it is is clear that the grandmother has touched so many lives during her 58 years.
Today (November 14) some of her nearest and dearest gathered to lay flowers in a park which was close to Gay's own heart. It comes after she was killed just after midday on Friday after being struck by an Audi on Chorley New Road.
Social distancing rules meant that those in attendance could not comfort each other through hugging but Mayor of Bolton Linda Thomas gave a speech to try and encapsulate what her friend of seven years meant to her. "I.