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Clean sweep for council workers
BOLTON Council has swept the board to win a crucial cleaning contract - and saved 520 jobs. Jubilant council chiefs were today celebrating a victory after their in-house company beat off private competition to claim a £4 million deal. The three-year contract
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'Save centre' for young problem adults
A PLEA has been made to protect the future of a centre which offers support and help to young adults with learning difficulties and their families. Grosvenor House, the former Moss Nook children's centre at Darcy Lever, has been criticised for failing
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Time running out for Raikes Lane burner
By MARK LONGBOTTOM ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners have warned that a new plan to generate energy from burning rubbish is not a solution to pollution problems. Bolton Friends of the Earth co-ordinator Dennis Watson claims that proposals to create a new incinerator
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Our Jenny is sight students must see
Tourist chief slams scheme to send away Crompton treasures A BOLTON business which brings foreign students into the town for fun and educational visits has blasted plans to send famous textile machinery out of the borough. Marianne Murphy, of Euro-Family
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Head worried about special needs pupils
THE headmaster of a Bolton school at the centre of a major shake-up in the education of children with behavioural problems has expressed his concern for the future. Roger Waring, head of Stocks Park School, Horwich, which will be the sole provider of
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!Lottery Officer Vivienne keeps fingers crossed for local cash bids
LOTTERY fever is taking over at Bolton Council - and they've created a full-time post to deal with it. Newly installed Lottery Officer Vivienne Morris says: "The idea is to promote the Lottery and get as much money into Bolton as possible. "Current estimates
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VANDAL-HIT BOSS MAKES PLEA TO COUNCIL
By BEVERLY GREENBERG A SNOOKER hall boss is desperate to speed up council plans to knock down his business . . . before the vandals bleed him dry! Mr Stephen Howarth and his wife, Christine, who run the Q Club on the Brownlow Fold Shopping Precinct, have
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Spreading the word
SIR: I have just read about Michael Bolton in the BEN. I am pleased he is spreading our fame to America. But you got the chant wrong about Bolton Wanderers. It should read: "We are the one and only Wanderers". This chant, I believe was first heard at
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School mourns second teacher
A BOLTON primary school was today mourning the death of a second teacher in a few weeks. Mrs Gail Hampson, aged 47, a teacher at Tonge Moor primary school collapsed at her home at Ruins Lane, Harwood on Sunday evening. A post mortem was being held today
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'Living lifts' for the disabled - now you're talking
By JULIE FREER THE lifts have come "alive" in Bolton town hall ... with the sound of talking. Shocked visitors to the council's offices have been been taken aback when they have stepped into the lifts. Instead of standing in silence, the lifts have started
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Nothing to hide
WE don't believe that Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust and the Community NHS Trust have anything to hide. But their refusal to allow representatives from the Community Health Council to attend their regular monthly meetings might lead people to think they have
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MORE than 20,000 Bolton school pupils will get an unscheduled day's holiday on Monday - a result of
VIDKUN Quisling, Norway's arch traitor, was shot in Oslo at 2-40 this morning. The King, sitting in Cabinet yesterday, refused an appeal for a reprieve made by Mrs Quisling, and ordered that the sentence of death should be carried out. Quisling was leader
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MANCHESTER City will officially unveil their new million-pound-plus training complex at nearby Platt
More than 300,000 people will use the facilities, built in partnership with the local council, during the coming year. The complex helped earn City the title of the Premiership's top community club for 1995. Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000
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ROY McFarland insisted today that no news on the transfer front does not mean Wanderers are slacking
"We've got money to spend and we are trying to strengthen the team," the Burnden boss confirmed, "but it's unfair to raise supporters' hopes until we can say for sure we are bringing players in. "It is a frustrating time but Bolton Wanderers are in the
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Stop leading us up blind alleys!
BOLTON folk have lost the pride of their alley - because town centre alleyways have been forgotten. That's the claim of Bolton and District Civic Trust, who are campaigning for names to be restored to the many tiny alleys which run off the town's main
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Firebomb threat loud music
LOUD music drove a 49-year-old man to threaten to firebomb his neighbour's home over the weekend, Bolton magistrates were told. John Neil Holland, unemployed, spent two nights in custody until appearing in court where he pleaded guilty to threatening
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Tears of rape ordeal nurse
A NURSE from Bolton wept as she told a court how a man posing as a policeman smashed his way into her flat and raped her Steven Murphy, 31, of Bromwich Street, Bolton, and later of Seymour Road, Astley Bridge, pleaded 'not guilty' at Bolton Crown Court
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Save all the horses
SIR: There was perhaps a touch of irony in the timing of ITV's Network First - "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?", screened less than 24 hours before the mighty Red Rum was humanely put down in a manner and after a retirement we would wish for all equines
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Bonfire danger from rogue drivers
CHEEKY truck drivers are using Bonfire Night as an excuse to dump rubbish. Council chiefs had to pay out around £2,000 last November to clean up after rogue drivers who tipped rubbish near bonfires. They used Bonfire Night as a cover for illegal tipping
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School mourns death of second teacher
A BOLTON primary school was today mourning the death of a second teacher in a few weeks. Mrs Gail Hampson, aged 47, a teacher at Tonge Moor primary school collapsed at her home at Ruins Lane, Harwood on Sunday evening. A post mortem was being held today
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Look at me when I'm talking to you! Palace Theatre, Manchester
Dame Edna's master clas BARRY Humphries is a masterly entertainer. Whether he's adopting the persona of the obnoxious Sir Les Patterson, reminiscing as Sandy Stone or being outrageously over-the-top as Dame Edna Everage, he is never less than brilliant
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Would you be able to help if somebody collapsed?
LESS than half the population of Britain would know what to do first if faced with an unconscious person. To improve this sad state of affairs, St John Ambulance is offering everyone the opportunity next week to learn how to save a life. Its Breath of
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Couple fly high with RSPB's top award
A COUPLE from Horwich who have been a driving force in making the Bolton RSPB members' group one of the most successful in Britain have been rewarded for their efforts. Tony Johnson and his wife Chris, of Lever Park Avenue, have received the President's
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Council rapped over widows' plight
BOLTON Council has been slammed in a national report on the way local authorities treat war widows and pensioners. Saga Magazine, for the over 50s, has carried out a survey on which councils refuse full reductions in council tax and rent. They classify
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Council rapped for war widows' plight
BOLTON Council has been slammed in a national report on the way local authorities treat war widows and pensioners. Saga Magazine, for the over 50s, has carried out a survey on which councils refuse full reductions in council tax and rent. They classify
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Early strike
stuns Bolton WOLVES RES 1 BOLTON RES 0 BOLTON Reserves went down to a narrow defeat against a strong Wolves side at Telford United last night. The only goal of the game came in the 11th minute when Dominic Foley fired a low shot home. Wolves dominated
