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3pc rent rise agreed
HOUSING chiefs yesterday gave the go-ahead for council rents in Bolton to go up by an average £1.26 a week from April 3. This is a 3.8pc increase and will bring the average rent up to around £32 a week. Tenants are to be asked whether they want two "rent-free
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Police set up mobile murder HQ
DETECTIVES investigating the vicious murder of Bolton mother Angela Heyes are setting up a mobile incident room near her home. Officers will be working from the caravan, parked near Bolton School at the junction of Park Road and Chorley New Road in the
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Catch drug pushers preying on our kids
BOLTON drug dealers are targeting children as young as eight and using radio scanners to avoid arrest. People from the Great Lever area complained at a police and community liaison meeting that drug dealers operating from local houses were making their
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Flood schools support
SIR: I would like the opportunity, through your columns, to express my thanks to the Local Education Authority for their support during the last two weeks. The fabric of our school suffered extensive flood damage following the very cold weather and the
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Young thugs cost a fortune
ANGRY council chiefs have still not received a penny towards the huge cost of keeping young offenders locked up. Hopes were raised early last year that the Government would come up with cash to meet the bill for secure accommodation. Council chiefs have
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£1.1m shot in the arm for small firms
A £1.1 million lifeline has been set up for Bolton Council to help small businesses across the borough. The cash has come from the European Community Regional Development Fund and will be split into two major grant schemes. More than £700,000 has been
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Charity may help to plot town's success
RESEARCH into Bolton's economic success may be funded by a charitable trust. The Leverhulme Foundation is considering a request by Bolton MP Peter Thurnham for the in-depth study. Mr Thurnham, Tory MP for Bolton North East, believes an understanding of
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Bill's baffled by an egg-citing find
BILL Cowardine thought it was a 'yoke' when a neighbour claimed the fresh eggs he'd given her were hard boiled. But his disbelief turned into amazement when the same thing happened to him. Bill, 69, of Pansy Road, Farnworth, has been buying eggs for months
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Moors rescue team join hunt for child
MEMBERS of Bolton Mountain Rescue team have been called in to help in the search for missing Oldham child Rosemary McCann. A total of 29 team members were involved in the search in the Alexandra Park area on Monday and yesterday members searched the streets
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Murder victim mum's deadly vision
THE mother of murder victim Angela Heyes says she predicted her daughter's brutal killing nearly 20 years ago. "I told her she'd wind up dead if she carried on as a prostitute," said Joyce Hilton today. Angela's strangled body, naked apart from bra and
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Seventh heaven!
Wigan 32 Bradford Bulls 18 WIGAN'S exciting Kiwis ensured the champions celebrated an incredible seven successive league titles at Central Park last night to maintain their stranglehold on the game. Henry Paul and Va'aiga Tuigamala were instrumental in
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Thatcher waits in the wings
SIR: I am really incensed by Mr Walsh's letter (BEN, January 9) about there being no difference between "New" and "Old" Labour, which can only be contemptuous to any fair minded person. In the early years of this government, Margaret Thatcher almost trebled
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Blackpool Rovers 1 Daisy Hill 2.
The 'performance' of the season put NWCL Division 2 side Daisy Hill into the last eight of the Lancashire ATS Trophy in a 2-1 victory at Blackpool Rovers. The Division 1 Seasiders had earlier in the season put Daisy out of the NWCL Challenge Cup and a
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Golf's on the upswing!
IT'S been described as a good walk spoiled, or a long way to carry a bag of sticks. But there's no denying that the game of golf is definitely on the upswing. More and more people are taking up the sport, with golf courses and driving ranges opening up
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Self defence surge
WORRIED Bolton women are turning to self-defence classes in the wake of the murder of Angela Heyes. Bolton Thai Boxing Club, which started a female-only class at its Brown Street headquarters for the first time at the weekend, reports a flood of calls
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Disturbing dimension
THE escalating conflict between the breakaway Chechen republic and the Russian government acquired a disturbing international dimension when rebel gunmen seized a ferry with 255 passengers in a Turkish port. The move came as the Russian military sledgehammer
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Young Wanderers roar home
25 YEARS AGO BOLTON Wanderers fielded a team including seven teenagers in today's home game against Sheffield United at Burnden Park - and won 2-1. The young players were Don McAllister (17), Alan Waldron (19), Paul Jones (17), Jimmy Redfern (19), Ian
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United to face FA again on 'poaching' rap
A BOLTON schoolboy striker at the centre of a soccer tug-of-war will know where his future lies in the next few days. David Brown, currently on Manchester United books, could be ordered back to his first club, Oldham Athletic, if the Old Trafford club
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Thompson comeback is held up
ALAN Thompson's hopes of a dream return to St James's Park were dashed today when his reserve team comeback was put on ice. Wanderers' Geordie winger, sidelined for five weeks after a double hernia operation, hoped a game in the reserves tonight would
