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Arise 'Sir' Gary!
BOLTON'S Euro MP Gary Titley has been awarded the Austrian equivalent of a knighthood. The Greater Manchester West Labour MEP was presented with the Austrian Gold Cross in recognition of his work helping Austria to join the European Union. He received
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Have your say plea to disabled
A CALL has been made for disadvantaged groups in Bolton to play a bigger part in the shaping of their own future. David Shonakan, chairman of the Association of Disabled People in Bolton, is appealing for disabled and elderly people to come forward and
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Have your say plea to disabled
A CALL has been made for disadvantaged groups in Bolton to play a bigger part in the shaping of their own future. David Shonakan, chairman of the Association of Disabled People in Bolton, is appealing for disabled and elderly people to come forward and
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What about the pupil?
SIR: In all the reports and comments on Harriet Harman's choice of school for her son, I have not read or heard anything about her son's views on this matter. We hear a lot about parental choice, but what about the child's choice? Surely a wise parent
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Easy rider Paul
A HUNDRED riders took part in Bolton MTB's first event of the year at Leverhulme Park. Paul Lally got the day off to a good start for Bolton by winning the 12/13 year youth category from Mark Smith. Neil Prentice won the 14/15 youth category by a convincing
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Breakfast show prize is one big let down
A BOLTON woman has been left with a bitter taste after her dreams of a wonderful Big Breakfast holiday turned into a fiasco. Karen O'Rourke, aged 42, of Lonsdale Grove, Farnworth, won a 'spectacular' holiday to Lapland last November when she rang up the
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John's cold comfort
LAST weekend's icy conditions did not take the heat out of the competition in the second match of the Tricast Highfield Winter Challenge series. Thin ice and a biting wind put paid to any decent returns in the match in which John Battersby of MAP Elton
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Town pays tribute as ex-mayors are made aldermen
TWO former Mayors of Bolton were last night made honorary aldermen of the borough. Long-serving former Tory councillors Ernie Crook and Geoff Smith received their honour at a full council meeting from the present Mayor Cllr Alan Rushton. Both men were
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Poor housing puts elderly at risk
PENSIONERS are living in some of the worst housing in the country which is putting their health at risk. A report launched this week by Age Concern says nearly one-and-a-half million homes are unfit for human habitation. And what should be their dream
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Blown away
SIR: I saw your comment recently about planning councillors sensibly turning down permission for a huge mast to measure wind speed at Turton Heights Moor. It finished with: "The last thing we want is to have our local landscape despoiled". Isn't it a
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Airlift drama on snowy moors
A SLEDGING session nearly turned to tragedy when a woman crashed on freezing Chorley moorland. Members of two mountain rescue teams joined paramedics and the police helicopter crew to help Deborah Garlick who had fallen heavily from her sledge on snowy
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Great divide is always there
SIR: It was interesting to read the editorial and subsequent letter by George K Brown entitled "Education's really lost its way." Seems like the justice system also, from the comments made last week by one of the top justices of this country. For it was
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Make bullying against the law
SIR: I am writing to different newspapers all around the country in the hope of setting up different groups of parents in the hope of bringing about a change in the law to make bullying a criminal offence. At the present time it isn't an offence to bully
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Muck flies over brass
A LOWLY-paid gardening vacancy has caused a right stink with a landscaping company boss who claims he was offering 'mower.' Now angry Jason Gooch - owner of Bedrock - says he has ditched plans to take on a teenage worker because of the mix up. The firm
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Teenager has followed her heart
SIR: I realise that my view of the 13 year old girl who has gone with her Turkish lover is controversial, but I greatly admire this couple, for she has followed her heart and will for the rest of her life remember her love! I am nearly 80 years old, but
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Granada defend soap ghost story
CORONATION Street bosses have defended last night's ghostly story-line after BEN readers complained that the soap had spooked their children. The episode sent a shiver down the spine of young viewers as Vera Duckworth (played by Liz Dawn) saw the ghost
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Driver hurt as black ice bus hits car
A MOTORIST was injured when a bus careered out of control on black ice and collided with his car on a busy Bolton road. The single decker bus skidded across the carriageway last night in Tonge Moor Road, Turner Bridge, and hit the car, which was travelling
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Wanderers' world search for bargains
WANDERERS will continue to scan the globe for transfer bargains despite the threat to the development of the game in this country. Colin Todd refuses to change his foreign policy, even though he accepts that every import denies a home grown player the
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Bolton hotels set to'float'
THE Scottish owners of three top Bolton hotels are planning a Stock Exchange flotation before Easter. Macdonald Hotels, which was formed in 1990, is expected to be valued at about £80m. It owns 16 hotels and operates a further 53 under contract. In Bolton
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Students urged to get it right
AN awards ceremony audience heard that many young people are getting it wrong when they train for their futures. David Ball, chairman of the Horwich-based Bolton Training Group, said BTG was proud of its achievements. "We have a long tradition in the
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Landlord floored over parking
A PUB boss was left frothing over plans that could damage his trade For the proposals were hatched at a meeting under his own roof! Conrad Thorpe, landlord at the Shoulder of Mutton in the moorland village of Holcombe, allows the Holcombe Village Preservation
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MP blasts job leave for dads
BOLTON MP Tom Sackville is urging John Major to fight any move by Brussels to force Britain to give new dads three months off work. Yesterday the European Commission published sweeping new proposals to give fathers as well as mums 12 weeks off without
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Mixed sex election shortlist go-ahead
LABOUR bosses in Bolton West constituency have been given the go-ahead to select a candidate to fight Tom Sackville at the next election from a mixed sex shortlist. The seat had originally been earmarked for an all-women shortlist as part of a bid by
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Town's green dream
BOLTON'S dream of making the town a greener place for the millennium has been given a boost by the National Lottery. As reported in the BEN, the council is considering a host of ideas before it makes a bid to the lottery's Millennium Fund. Ideas include
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I'll give the Lotto to schools!
BOLTON education bosses have got their fingers crossed it will be them when the lottery numbers are drawn on Saturday. For a local councillor is trying to win the £9 million estimated jackpot for Bolton's crumbling schools. Last night Liberal Democrat
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Teachers exchange roles for a year
A CHORLEY teacher has swapped school, house and car for a 12-month spell in New Zealand. Southlands High School maths teacher Lynne Bramwell left for the kiwi country a month ago following three years of thorough planning, and in her place is New Zealand
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Help with cot death study
SIR: I am currently a second year student on the BTEC National Diploma in caring services (Nursery Nursing) course at Bolton College. I have to complete a year-long assignment on a chosen subject. I have chosen to study Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (cot
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Just champion!
LONGSIGHT A are Division One champions and Holcombe Brook have taken the Division Two title in the BSF Indoor Tennis League. Longsight B made it a one-two for the club as they snatched runners-up spot in Division One and the teams' combined successes
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We've got a bone to pick!
ANGRY parents have lodged a formal complaint against a Chorley primary school after their son broke his foot in a playground accident. David and Alice Tickle, of Ullswater Road, Chorley, were outraged after John, aged 11, claimed he had received no medical
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Low soccer fees are a winner
LEISURE chiefs believe they have scored a winner with weekend soccer players in Chorley. For the council's football pitches are among the cheapest in the North West, according to a recent survey. Chorley Borough Council charges £17.75 - due to rise to
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Teenager followed her heart
SIR: I realise that my view of the 13 year old girl that has gone with her Turkish lover is controversial, but I greatly admire this couple, for she has followed her heart and will for the rest of her life remember her love! I am nearly 80 years old,
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Pensioners evacuate fire flats
SIX elderly neighbours were evacuated as fire destroyed a first-floor flat early today. Firemen are still investigating the cause of the blaze at Sunningdale Grove, Leigh, and the possibility of arson has not been ruled out. Firemen were alerted by neighbours
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Wrong kind of downpour
THE recent snow storms were the wrong kind of downpour to help fill the region's near empty reservoirs, say North West Water. They say the recent white out will do hardly anything to ease the crisis. They have dashed hopes that a big thaw will mean torrents
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Don't let your money worries drive you mad
MONEY worries - how to pay off creditors, the mortgage, the TV licence, the bills, - can drive people to distraction. Even suicide. Some organisations provide counselling; for instance, Bolton Council has three helpline numbers for people who run into
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Boys fall at final hurdle
BOLTON Boys Fed Under 18s fell at the final hurdle in their bid to regain the Lancashire FA Inter-League Shield. The Fed contributed to a cracking final at Leyland Motors and were in touch until ten minutes from time before a strong South Lancashire Counties
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Fear for centre opened by Anne
STAFF at a pioneering Bolton project opened by Princess Anne are on the verge of losing their jobs. The BYPASS centre and Bolton Bond Board set up to help young people will have to close unless funding is found soon. Last night Bolton's social services
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Lottery gamble
LIBERAL Democrat leader Cllr Roger Hayes was making a serious point when he presented a lottery ticket to education chairman Cllr Don Eastwood. Cllr Hayes wants people to know that education funding is a lottery and that some schools are in a critical
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Hospital trust's flawed argument
HOSPITAL trust bosses are using a flawed argument to justify their inflation-busting pay rises. They claim that their pay is, on average, half that of their counterparts in the private sector. If they are referring to the "fat cat" salaries of bosses
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Moon mission drama
25 YEARS AGO THE moon men breathed again today after an emergency move got them out of trouble at the end of a two-hour docking drama. Five times the ice-cool crew failed to complete the docking of the spidery moonlander Antares with the parent spacecraft
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Stan in the dock
FORMER Bury defender Roger Stanislaus - the first player in England to test positive for a performance-enhancing drug immediately after a match - faces an unprecedented two or three-year ban from football for drug abuse when he comes before the Football
