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More businesslike showbusiness!
A Bolton company based mainly on defence contracts is expanding its showbusiness role. Francis Searchlights (1990) Ltd in Union Road has bought EL International Ltd of Milton Keynes from the receivers. EL Lighting (Edison-Lumo) has two distinct product
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Aero appoint pro
BOLTON Association side British Aerospace have signed John Nuttall as their professional for the coming season. This is the player's first pro job following a successful amateur career at Lancashire League Bacup. A right arm medium fast bowler and middle
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Watky turns sights on Lancs success
MIKE Watkinson will hardly have time on his hands while England compete in cricket's World Cup without him. The Lancashire skipper's hopes of extending his international career were put on hold when Mike Atherton told him at the end of the recent South
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Battling father wins probe into baby son's death
A FATHER'S concerns surrounding the death of his baby son last year are to be investigated by the NW Regional Health Authority. Mr Thomas Beardmore, of Tyldesley, has also been asked for further details of the case by the Attorney General. Mr Beardmore
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Berry marks comeback with a trophy!
PAUL Berry marked his return to the Bolton Cricket League by helping his new side Kearsley to their first trophy of the year. Berry, who had been playing with Northern League side Leyland, was the outstanding player in the League's indoor competition
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Government launches inquiry into Gulf War Syndrome
THE GOVERNMENT was today setting up a major inquiry into whether Gulf War Syndrome exists. There are two local men who claim to have been suffering from the syndrome. In a written Parliamentary answer, Defence Secretary Michael Portillo finally bowed
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Just what the nurse ordered!
BOLTON has secured a prestigious feather in its nursing cap. The decision to extend the Nurse Prescribing Project to all GP practices across the borough has been warmly welcomed by the medical profession. It was in October 1994 that the Government gave
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Leigh keep spirits up
LEIGH are still in high spirits despite the disappointment of the postponement of Sunday's Silk Cut Challenge Cup fourth round tie at Hull KR. The confident second division side quickly got over the feeling of anti-climax when blizzards wiped out the
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Same people penalised
SIR: We keep seeing in the BEN complaints about warden-controlled accommodation charging £1.60 a week. What about home care from £31.20 to £46.70 a week? Why should they keep penalising the same people. We've saved up all our lives for our old age. Everybody
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Wigan's big night out
WIGAN are to play their home games on a Sunday evening with a 6.30pm kick-off. The Central Park outfit decided on the move with the introduction of the Super League which gets under way at the end of March and runs throughout the summer. The champions
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Labour is now in turmoil
SIR: After all the unnecessary debates forced to be held in the House by the Labour MPs on the future of the educational system in Britain the Labour Party is once again in turmoil through the action of the Leader of the Party, and now one of his Shadow
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Woman thanks BEN after court mix-up
A 23-YEAR-OLD bail buster thanked the Bolton Evening News when she appeared at Bolton magistrates court. Marie Taylor, of Crossdale Road, Bolton, should have appeared before the town's magistrates last Friday on separate charges of dangerous driving and
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Big freeze puts lid on bin collections
WHEELIE bins are filling up all over Bolton - because the big freeze has made it too dangerous for refuse teams to carry out their rounds. Yesterday morning a wagon working in the Little Lever area had two near misses as its driver fought to keep control
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Dad's tragic death remains a mystery
MYSTERY surrounds the death of a divorced father-of-three. Bernard Taylor, 45, drowned in the River Croal, in Queen's Park, a Bolton inquest heard. But deputy coroner Mr Bill Swalwell said the event leading up to Mr Taylor's death remained unknown. Mr
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Town en route for cycle lanes
A SCHEME aimed at making cycling safer on some of Bury's busiest roads could be up and running before the end of the year. Council chiefs have given the thumbs up to the plans, which would provide cycle lanes on Radcliffe Road and Bury Road, between the
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What great sports...
LOCAL amateur soccer teams are rallying round to help disaster-struck Pennington Football Club. The Atherton-based club fell victim to two separate blazes within the space of a week which wrecked the premises. Now a number of sports clubs in the Atherton
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Caring Lindsey's Brazil bound
TEENAGER Lindsey McCulloch is hoping to finance a trip to Brazil to help people less fortunate than herself. Lindsey, aged 17, says she wants to help others because she has been lucky enough to have had chances in life. The Canon Slade Sixth Form pupil
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Tania's towering challenge
PLUCKY Tania Barrett is all set to take a giant leap to say thank you on behalf of her younger sister. Eight year old Tania is planning to abseil down Bolton Fire Station's 90ft hose-drying tower on Saturday to raise money for Vision Aid in Bolton. Recently
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25 YEARS AGO
A RELIEF fund, set up to help the relatives of 344 men and boys killed in the Westhoughton colliery explosion of 1910, is to be wound up. Of the 593 widows, children and parents bereaved after one of England's biggest mining disasters, just one man -
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Club v Country tug-of-war
GUDNI Bergsson has been caught in the middle of a club v country wrangle that threatens to keep him out of Wanderers FA Cup Roses battle with Leeds. The captain of Iceland has been called up for an international tournament in Malta next week, ruling him
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Sign of the times
CLEVER, these Chinese. When Charlie's Chips at Harwood changed hands recently the sign outside was amended with maximum economy. Three letters simply became surplus to requirements when the Lee Gate business was transformed into Chae's Chips. Former owner
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Council Tax to rise 9pc
BOLTON'S tax payers are set for above-inflation rises of about nine per cent. Yesterday the government announced the final figures for local government funding for the next financial year. Bolton's total grant of £159,208 million was marginally less than
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Positive response to life in New Lane
A MEETING to highlight the positive side of living in Breightmet is being held tomorrow. It has been called by community officials and residents of the New Lane area, who are concerned about the "bad Press" the area has been receiving. "This area does
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Safety first to keep customers
TOWN centre retailers are demanding cheaper AND safer car parking to help them fight the giant out of town shopping centre at Dumplington. Shop bosses believe the cost of parking is not the only factor stopping shoppers coming to Bolton town centre. They
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State schools need more money, claims MP
TOP-CLASS teachers and adequate funding must be made available to comprehensive schools if the system is to work, a Bolton MP said today. Labour's David Young, a former teacher, insisted that properly resourced comprehensive schools could hold their own
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Old folk miss out on cold weather cash
BOLTON'S old folk have been left in the cold while thousands of others across the North West are benefiting from extra Government cash. As temperatures continue to hover around freezing, Government officers today confirmed there would be no cold weather
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Mum's outrage as sex
beast gets five years A DEVASTATED Bolton mother has slammed a five year jail term handed down to a convicted child abuser. Michael Harry Sheffield, 43, of Tonge Moor Road, Bolton was given the sentence by a judge at Manchester Crown Court last week for
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Education cash crisis
BOLTON Council will lose another £2 million if Government plans to introduce the controversial nursery vouchers go ahead. The council already faces having to save more than £1 million from education and arts in the next financial year as part of wide-ranging
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Experts needed
SIR: It is to be hoped that the 'top legal expert' called for by Mark Perks in respect of Red Moss Supertip turns out to be just that, and not first a junior counsel and later a planning lawyer instead of one skilled in land law. Terry Adams Ltd. believe
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Harman's a hypocrite
SIR: Being a lifelong member of the Labour Party, and now in my 75th year, I was taught as a child I could not have my cake and eat it. But, alas, Harriet Harman, Member of the Shadow Cabinet, has proved the exception to the rule. She has been pontificating
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The friendly martial art enjoys a silver birthday bash
A MARTIAL arts club with no contests, awards or competitions and where members never fight against each other has celebrated its 25th birthday. The Manchester and District Aikido Association, which has a thriving Bolton Club, was started in 1971 by Don
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Fixture wipe-out
BOLTON Combination's fixtures suffered a complete wipe -out for the first time this season at the weekend. On Saturday kick off 2pm sees the Tate Trophy Second Round will take place. The fixtures are - Adlington Athletic v Howe Bridge Mills Res; Atherton
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Lock up your wives!
THIS is the Bolton man designed to set women's hearts fluttering and their husbands jealous...in a new steamy TV drama. Stephen Billington has been chosen from hundreds of handsome young hopefuls to play the lead role in an Anglia Television dramatisation
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Diagnosis poor for 24-hour GP service
HEALTH watchdogs are concerned about a 24- hour GP service in Bolton. The service will operate from Lombard House, at the junction of Chorley Old and Chorley New Road, and will be an emergency consultation centre. It is aimed at reducing the pressure
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Outlook is black
AFTER only a few cold days, the newly-privatised National Grid is threatening power cuts. In 1987 when temperatures fell to minus 16C, the then nationalised grid coped perfectly well. Significantly, the National Grid has entered into a discount scheme
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Riddle of Little Lolla
MRS Pat Williams (nee Shone), of Heaton Road, Bradley Fold, Bolton, says that she is an avid reader of Looking Back and wonders if anyone can tell her why "Little Lolla" in Atherton was so called. "It was situated at the corner of Bag Lane and Market
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Reds ponder appeal over fine
MANCHESTER United are considering an appeal against a £20,000 fine for "poaching" a Bolton schoolboy player. The Football Association imposed the penalty after finding United guilty of an illegal approach to 17-year-old Oldham associated schoolboy forward
