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Dropped carrot broke baker's toe!
A MANCHESTER Airport baker suffered a fractured toe today when he dropped a frozen carrot on it. John Mullard, aged 25, was working in the kitchen of the Lancaster restaurant at the airport's Terminal One building. He was taken to Wythenshawe hospital
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Man in burning pan ordeal
A MAN needed hospital treatment for minor burns last night after a grill pan caught fire at his home. Neil Bertenshaw was injured when he slipped as he attempted to carry the burning pan outside after throwing a damp towel over it. Mr Bertenshaw, of Oakenbottom
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Wanderers fans defiant
WE'LL be back...that was message spelled out loud and clear by Bolton Wanderers' fans who were down, but definitely not out, for the final Premier League game of the season at Highbury yesterday. They already knew their beloved team was doomed to Division
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Schoolgirl is hailed a heroine
A BOLTON schoolgirl has emerged as one of the heroes of a dramatic rescue which saved the life of girl of 12 who plunged 30ft into a freezing river. Emma Fletcher, aged 12, of Greenway Close was in a nearby field with her brother Paul, 17, and her 12-
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Just champion!
CHAMPIONS Little Lever fired an early title warning with a convincing seven-wicket victory over Walkden. Tony Keays' 88 put Walkden on their way to 157-9 but Little Lever pro Mel Whittle ensured the target remained within reach with a seven-wicket haul
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Barbara leads Lib Dem challenge
THE new leader of the Liberal Democrats on Bolton Council is Cllr Barbara Ronson. Cllr Ronson, who was first elected to the council in 1986, takes over from Roger Hayes who did not seek re-election in last week's council elections. Cllr Ronson said: "
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Battle to save farms from grass fire
TWO farms were threatened last night when huge grass fires destroyed more than six square miles of moorland near Belmont. Sixty firefighters from Bolton and Lancashire battled for three hours to control two separate fires - both thought to have been started
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Death riddle: Man quizzed
DETECTIVES were today questioning a man about the hours leading up to the "suspicious" death of his common law wife. Robert Glover was arrested last night by detectives probing the death of 50-year-old Elizabeth Keefe. Detectives launched a search for
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Friendly rivalry on Bob's Brow
COMPETITION was fierce but friendly when Horwich Harriers held an open junior cross country meeting at Bob's Brow. The main thrust of the event was to encourage boys and girls of all age groups, from nearby clubs, to get involved and promote team spirit
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Miners' leader in dole fight victory
BOLTON miners' leader Billy Kelly has won an appeal against British Coal over redundancies at Lancashire's last remaining pit. Parkside Colliery, Newton-le-Willows, closed in June 1993 with the loss of 750 jobs following a hard-fought campaign by miners
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What's going next?
SIR: This used to be Great Britain. Gone are: Gone are the coal industry; steel Industry; textile industry; fishing industry and beef farming. What next? Mr K Jones, Milton Close, Atherton Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and
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Leigh crash again
Leigh 20 South Wales 23 By MIKE HULME ERIC Hughes has now seen at first hand the problems that cost Ian Lucas his Leigh coaching job. Hughes' losing start to his Hilton Park reign was just as depressing as those with Lucas at the helm. A performance riddled
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Radio reaches out to save
SIR: I read with some trepidation that Bolton Pentecostal Church are planning to establish a radio station which aims to 'reach out to the unsaved'. May I ask who these 'unsaved' people be? Do they mean everyone who doesn't particularly agree with the
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Wrong information on Parade
SIR: I feel I must write in reply to the lies and mis-information given in your newspaper regarding the Apprentice Boys Parade in Bolton on April 13. Burtonwood Breweries cancelled the room, because of threats from the extreme left. Membership of organisations
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Haven on earth for sea life
WITH recent reports branding Blackpool's beach a sewage-contaminated failure, the idea of going to Europe's most popular resort in search of marine life seems a total non-starter. Not so. The Golden Mile is a no-go area for the hapless creatures on the
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Wanderers facts and figures
ARSENAL 2 WANDERERS 1 A familiar script! Points in the bag, the game entering its final few minutes and crash, bang, wallop! They seemed to be signing off with a surprise win but Wanderers' Premiership adventure ended with the same old story ... what
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Bury boss full of praise
STAN Ternent (manager): IT'S a lovely feeling and I'm pleased for the chairman, Hugh Eaves who has put his money where his mouth is, myself and the players because they deserve the success. "They have had so many kicks in the teeth along the road but
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Super Shakers clinch ultimate prize
Bury 3 Cardiff 0 IT'S taken a long time in coming but the sweet smell of success has finally reached Gigg Lane. For the first time in eleven long and often punishing years the club has finally got something to celebrate. And nobody can deny they deserved
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TV chef John cooks up menu
TV chef John Tovey hopes to cook up a storm when he visits Bury College's Restaurant in Whitefield tomorrow. John, who runs the famed Miller Howe Hotel at Windermere, will be perfecting his Summer Festival Menu with the students and supervising them in
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Quake shaker
AN earth tremor shook parts of north Staffordshire and south Cheshire today, setting off fire alarms and causing a flood of calls to local police stations. The tremor occurred at 4.50am and was felt in Kidsgrove, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Church Lawton and
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Three and easy
LITTLE Hulton made it three successive victories with an ominously powerful victory at Edgworth. Danny Beswick's 7-25 kept the visitors' total down to 116-8. But it wasn't enough as pro Tim O'Sullivan and second teamer Vincent Mullineaux got to work on
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Top two have a familiar look
Rounders Scene FOUR weeks into the BSF Ladies Rounders League season the Section 'A' League table has the old, familiar, look to it. Darcy Lever C&SC 'A' and Index Bromley Cross top the table, being the only two unbeaten sides. With only nine teams
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Reunion planned
SIR: I served by two years National Service with the Royal Army Pay Corps joining at Devizes Wiltshire training camp in July 1953 and then spent 10 weeks at Nottingham Pay Office. The remainder of my time was divided equally between CPO (Command Pay Office
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Wigan boss sympathises with Paris plight
Wigan 76 Paris SG 8 WIGAN coach Graeme West appealed to the rugby league to change the rules after seeing his side demolish the Super League new boys. The champions were awesome in their clinical destruction of the Frenchmen but West had every sympathy
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A place for all beliefs
SIR: It would appear that anyone, who wishes to show support for the union of the British nations in Bolton, will become a victim of the Left Wing mob and its affiliated groups. The Labour Party Race Relations Council, who wish for nothing more than the
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Comment: Sound advice
COLIN Todd put the situation in a nutshell for Wanderers' players. He's right to warn them that they are in for a shock if they think because they've been in the Premiership, they can just go out and waltz their way back. Of course they and their fans
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From the BEN files
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, May 6, 1971 SINGING star Dickie Valentine, 41, who shot to the top of the show-business tree in a classic rags-to-riches, died today in a car crash in South Wales. Two other men, his drummer and pianist, also died when
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Stubbs the key!
ALAN Stubbs holds the key to a transfer treasure chest that could make Wanderers one of the big money players in the Endsleigh League next season. It now appears to be a matter of when rather than if the Burnden captain is granted his long-held wish for
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Hunger key to instant return
IT was an all-too-brief, bitter-sweet experience but Wanderers have tasted the high life. Now, are they hungry enough to fight their way back to the Premiership table? They've been found wanting and, it must be said, they can have no complaints about
