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HIS WORKERS DON'T PAY TAX, NOW HE'S WON A SPECIAL AWARD
A PIONEERING local business man is on the crest of a wave after being given a special lifetime achievement award by the Royal Yachting Association. Henri Strzelecki MBE founded the Henri-Lloyd sailing clothing manufacturer back in 1963 after working in
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Crisis talks at Edbro
CRISIS talks between management and union officials at a Bolton factory were held at an emergency meeting yesterday. Management at Edbro, the Great Lever tipping gear manufacturers, have put half of the 380-strong workforce on a two-and-a-half day week
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Cabbies jump to it for cancer charities
THE sky was the limit for staff at a Bolton taxi firm who deserted their usual mode of transport in a bid to raise money for cancer research and treatment. Seven drivers swapped their cars for a plane and took part in a parachute jump organised by Breightmet
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Hands off our heritage - Dibnah
SUPERSTAR steeplejack Fred Dibnah has joined the battle to prevent Bolton's industrial treasures being shipped out of town. Fred is steaming over plans to send some of Bolton's textile heritage on long-term loan to other museums. And Britain's most famous
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Woman to fight for Sackville seat
LABOUR will field a woman to fight for health minister Tom Sackville's Bolton seat at the next general election. But today's news that Bolton West is included in a list of constituencies ordered by the Labour hierarchy to draw up a "women-only" shortlist
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Kind Marcus cheers crime boy
A GENEROUS schoolboy was so upset when he heard about the theft of another youngster's bike he decided to give away his own. As reported in the BEN, five-year-old Joshua Griffiths' blue BMX was stolen from his home at Ainsworth Lane, Tonge Fold - on Friday
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Funding is unfair
SIR: I refer to Cllr Jim Alker's remarks (BEN, October 18) regarding funding in different areas of Bolton. Harper Green Residents' Association would be alive now, if we had been having the funding given in other areas. I have been trying to get a Community
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Lack of taste
WHILE we accept there is public interest in what Prince William gets up to, one national newspaper has stepped over the boundaries of good taste in its coverage of his movements. The newspaper set up a telephone hotline to encourage teenagers who had
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Low pay - the horror of it all
A NEW book of "horror" stories is published today - to mark the 10th anniversary of Greater Manchester Low Pay Unit. Workers' Voices is a collection of accounts of the working lives and experiences of people who have contacted the unit for help and advice
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Barman Jack's back in business
JACK Duckworth pulled the pints in Bolton's Howcroft Inn last night as his bid to take over at the Rover's Return hung in the balance. Jack, alias Bill Tarmey, officially opened the 1995 Bolton Beer Festival at the pub in Pool Street to start a five day
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Thieves steal church sound system
HEARTLESS thieves stole a new sound system from a Bolton church just three weeks after it was installed. The congregation of St George's Church, Plodder Lane, Farnworth, raised funds for more than a year to get the vital equipment. But angry parishioners
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Police concerned at rising crime
POLICE chiefs in Greater Manchester today admitted they are concerned about rising levels of violent crime - and the fact that they are catching too few criminals. But they believe that the vast majority of people in the county - the force records more
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Theatres don't merit lottery cash
SIR: I have been a regular player in the national lottery since it started last year. But I am becoming more and more disgusted with the way the money is being spent in the last few weeks. Now I hear millions are being spent on opera theatres and the
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Dispel gypsy myths
SIR: A wise man once told me that sarcasm alone was a very low form of wit. That came over abundantly clear in the letter from H Hennesey, (BEN, October 20). The gypsies, like many people in many countries, get water in the best way they can. Most of
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ABOUT 50 staff and ancillary workers at the Radcliffe works of Mather and Platt, Ltd., are to lose t
BOLTON has been given Government permission to suspend 19 smoke control orders because of the threat of a smokeless fuel famine. SIR,- I had a nervous breakdown two years ago, and no wonder. I had to destroy a bed owing to water coming through the bedroom
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Bolton face tough test
WANDERERS will have to do it the hard way if they are to match last season's sensational run to Wembley in the Coca-Cola Cup. Today's fourth round draw offered the Burnden boys the prospect of an away tie against either Bradford City or Norwich City,
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YUGOSLAV international Sasa Curcic will fly in from Belgrade tomorrow to boost Wanderers Premiership
The 23-year-old Partisan Belgrade midfielder was granted his work permit today, leaving Wanderers waiting for just international clearance before completing the record-equalling £1.5 million transfer. They still face a race to complete the formalities
