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Fight to save battlefields
CAMPAIGNERS fighting to protect battlegrounds from developers have been in Bolton to drum up support. Members of The Battlefields Trust, a national registered charity, were urging Saturday shoppers in Victoria Square to sign their petition. Kieran Moffatt
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Aussie revival
SATURDAY turned out to be an Aussie revival day in more ways than one. While Mark Taylor was confounding his critics at Edgbaston with a century fightback against England, his fellow countrymen were also making a mark on the Bolton League. And the new
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Darcy capture winning formula
DARCY Lever collected more welcome points as their batsmen produced a winning show against Spring View. They had to chase a total of 185-7 that would have been considerably more but for Jason Whittaker's bowling return of 3-33 off 19 overs. While Whittaker
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17,000 flock to stunning Bolton air display show
MORE than 17,000 people flocked to Bolton's spectacular air show at the weekend. Classic aircraft from the past and the present thrilled the crowds with stunning displays in the air show and gala day organised by British Aerespace's Lostock Sports and
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Tonge turn the screw
TONGE are beginning to turn the screw on the rest of the Bolton League. They romped to a ten wicket win at Eagley, while only Walkden of the chasing clubs could match that as they sent Kearsley reeling to a third successive defeat. Tonge's success was
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Drivers rally round for hospice
STEEPLEJACK Fred Dibnah is joining forces with Bolton's former MP Peter Thurnham for this year's Vintage and Classic Car Run. Mr Thurnham is jetting to Bolton from America ready to dust down his 1904 Wolseley as enthusiasts also head for the town to show
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Daring doc's pole trek
INTREPID adventurer Dr Stephen Martin braved freezing temperatures in an ice-cracking? 92-day journey to the North Pole - but he'll soon be back in Bolton! Dr Martin swapped his bedside manner at the Royal Bolton H?ospital for tough survival skills, as
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Getting close to home
SIR: May I say, as an ex-patriot Boltonian, how much I enjoy reading the BEN via the Internet. It makes me feel much closer to home. Thank you BEN. I think you are the single most powerful force in the cultural identity of Bolton. Norman Bailey, Melbourne
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Police to warn parents about sex perverts
HOME Secretary Jack Straw is to give police new powers to tell mums, dads and teachers about the whereabouts of convicted child sex perverts. For the first time, they will get the legal right to warn people when paedophiles with criminal records move
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Turn clothes into cash
SIR: When you sort out your summer wardrobe, you may find you have items you will never wear again. Don't throw them away. Bring them to the Save The Children shop at I2I Deansgate, we will turn them into cash to help the children all over the world who
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Earning enough
SIR: At the present time there is no official minimum wage. For the purposes of this letter I shall take this to be an amount of pay an employee is paid which is enough for a person to be earning a living, without the employee having to be subsidised
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Dog saved from blazing house
A JACK Russell dog was rescued from a smoke filled kitchen after its owner left food cooking on a stove. Firefighters from Bolton North and Bolton Central fire stations attended the blaze at a house on Ripley Street, Tonge Moor, yesterday, after a neighbour
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Daily Poem
I'm waiting at God's bus stop There are others in the queue No one knows for certain Just when their bus is due. He has a frequent service Twenty four hours I'm told I hope it isn't very long I'm getting rather cold There's such a cross section of people
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Tory losers must reapply
FORMER Bolton West MP, Tom Sackville will have to reapply to Tory Central Office if he wants to fight the next election. The Conservative Party has scrapped its existing list of approved candidates and intends to draw up a new one. Mr Sackville and fellow
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25 YEARS AGO
From the Evening News, June 8, 1972 NAT Lofthouse is to leave Bolton Wanderers after nearly 33 years as player, manager, coach and, latterly, chief scout. The board announced its decision to relieve Nat of his position today, but insisted that the move
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Group's secure future
HARLOW Security Systems from Bolton and Integrated Security Ltd of London have combined to form the new Harlow Group. Managing director Les Atkinson said the combined organisation was now able to provide service and installation of a comprehensive range
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Fewer firms start up
AROUND 80,000 businesses started-up during the first three months of 1997 - six pc fewer than for the same quarter in 1996. Figures from the NatWest Start-Up Index of Small Businesses show that 330,000 new businesses are likely during 1997. The most popular
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Managers train at the double
MANAGEMENT training and development has almost doubled in British companies during the past 10 years. A new report out today says recognition of the importance of management development and a well-trained workforce has increased significantly - and the
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Insurance move will be just the job
A NEW national insurance company - set to create 150 Bolton jobs - is making its home on a major business park development at Egerton. Broker Direct plc, which began operations last week from temporary accommodation near Manchester Airport, intends to
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Armed raiders grab £4,500 from bookies
TWO armed masked men carried out a Derby Day raid on a Bolton betting office, escaping with £4,500 in cash. The raiders, carrying a pistol and a machete, burst into Holdings Bookies on Bury Road, Breightmet, at 6.10pm on Saturday. They threatened the
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Burns cat Grumpy is reunited with owner
GRUMPY the cat has been reunited with his family after being snatched to safety from a raging moorland grass fire. Horwich firefighters rescued Grumpy, who had burned all his paws, from the blaze on the outskirts of Leigh. He was taken to the Bolton Destitute
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Muggers steal boy's birthday money
SHOPPERS failed to act as a gang of thieves mugged a young schoolboy and stole his birthday money in broad daylight. Yobs mugged Daniel Birchall during a trip to Bolton with two friends to buy a pair of trainers as a 14th birthday present from his parents
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Man seeks children he cast off for love
AN old soldier is desperate to track down the two children he lost touch with when his first marriage disintegrated while he was fighting abroad during the Second World War. Mr Frank Howarth, 82, was away for more than four years serving with the Durham
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Association miss out in thrilling finale
THE Bolton Association came close to producing the shock of the round in the Lancashire inter-league competition. They almost toppled one of the competition favourites, the Northern League at Blackpool in a terrific game that was only decided with three
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Trials bike boy, 14, killed
A BOLTON teenager died when an off-road trials motorbike he was riding crashed into a metal road barrier. Anthony Lyndon Symonds, 14, of Tonge Moor Road was riding a pal's machine in Cox Green Road, Bromley Cross yesterday. He is thought to have crashed
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This visit was ruined
SIR: I read with great interest about "Clampers to be curbed" and agree that they should. My grandson drove all the way up from Nuneaton recently after work (he works in a late night shift). He was going to visit me for the first time in two years and
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Warriors halt Aussie march
Canterbury Bulldogs 18 Wigan Warriors 22 SUPER Wigan stopped the rot by becoming the first British side to tame the Aussies with a magnificent display in Sydney this morning. Eight British teams have suffered at the hands of the Australians in the World
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Leigh topple the Hornets
Leigh Centurions 27, Rochdale Hornets 16 LEIGH'S unsung quartet grabbed star billing as the rejuvenated Hilton Park side toppled the Division Two leaders to keep alive their own promotion chances. So often this season it's been the likes of Street, Pucill
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Application on its own merits
SIR: I refer to the article by Gayle Evans, headed "Spanish aye for new restaurant" as reported in the Bolton Evening News on Saturday, May 24. In the penultimate paragraph, Mr Neil Gatt is reported to have said 'the magistrates had no choice but to grant
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Think again on park plan
SIR: On the 10th April this year North West Water formed a private limited company they chose to call the "Rivington Heritage Trust" to run, in the future, Lever Park and their ambitious £15 million proposed developments for the Park and the Rivington
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Family plea for old turnstile
AN old Bolton Wanderers turnstile bearing a patent stamp is desperately needed as an unusual anniversary gift. The turnstiles bear the mark "Deluces Patent" for the rush preventative turnstiles. And the Deluce family living in Cheadle are hoping to find
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Krypton charity challenge
CONSERVATIONISTS are urging Bolton people to go wild on Holcombe Moor's Krypton Factor course next month. The Lancashire Wildlife Trust are issuing a challenge in a bid to raise money for their charity. The sponsored dash across the rope swings and army
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Man impaled on wood
A MAN was rushed to hospital today after a large piece of wood pierced his arm. The accident happened at Wood Lake Furniture on Tonge Road. James Lawrence, aged 19, of Tennyson Street, Farnworth, was working on a woodcutting machine when an offcut flew
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Woman has purse snatched
AN Asian housewife was robbed of £20 by two youths as she made her way home on Saturday. The 35-year-old woman was approached by the two men near a pelican crossing on Topp Way, Bolton. They threatened her and demanded her purse, which she handed over
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Barry's Zodiac could be a star!
CHAUFFEUR Barry Sansome hopes to steer his Ford Zodiac to success in a national classic car competition. Barry, of Fairlands Road, Limefield, Bury, has entered the distinctive maroon and grey 1960s car in the third round of the 1997 Autoglym Classic Concours
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Buckets used for truck fire
FIREFIGHTERS were called to deal with a stolen dumper which had been abandoned in a field and set on fire. But when the firefighters arrived it took them two hours to put out the blaze because the nearest water supply was about a mile away. The truck
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Light work at Reebok
THE Reebok Stadium, Bolton Wanderers new home at Horwich, took a step closer to completion over the weekend. Construction workers dodged the thunder and lightning to install the diamond-shaped floodlight assembly on three of the four futuristic pylons
