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Make date with the ramblers
BOLTON Ramblers Association has a host of activities for the coming months. On Sunday, June 16, there's a coach ramble on the Thirlmere Way from Dolphinholme, to Aughton. Details on seat availability on 0161 764 7286. On Thursday, June 27, there's a footpath
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Birthday girl's rabbit m isery
BIRTHDAY girl Cait Kearney's celebrations were hit today by the loss of a treasured toy. Cait, who is six today, lost a cuddly rabbit her grandmother bought her when she was small. Mum, Michelle Kearney, hopes someone will have found the brown bunny and
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Melanie in plea to save 'spirit bears'
BOLTON animal lovers have teamed up with campaigners on the other side of the world to save a rare species, the white Black Bear. The black bears, dubbed "spirit bears" by native Indians, are born white due to a recessive gene and are unique to Princess
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Vintage cars £1 show bust-up
VINTAGE car enthusiasts blew a fuse when Bolton council told them they would have to pay a £1 administration fee for entering their cars into local motor shows. But they were driven round the bend with frustration when an avalanche of identical entrance
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Woman in human torch death drama
A WOMAN has died from horrific burns after turning herself into a human torch in a cubicle in busy town centre public toilets. Terrified witnesses watched as flames exploded from behind the cubicle door in the public toilets on Old Hall Street yesterday
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Success for Antony's Cycle Investigation Department
TEENAGER Antony Rothwell turned detective to track down a pair of stolen mountain bikes. The 16-year-old schoolboy refused to give up the search after thieves stole his and his brother Daniel's bikes from an outside shed. A month later delighted Daniel
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More toilets needed
SIR: I read with dismay recently that the council have closed the toilets on Bridge Street. Surely we want more toilets, not fewer, whatever age you are, but more so the elderly and those on water tablets who are forever on the look-out for toilets. The
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Lack of loos
SIR: I write in response to David Young MP for Bolton South East (BEN, May 24) regarding public toilets. The following is not being critical towards his stance on the above problem. Mr Young stipulates that other towns adjoining Bolton don't have the
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Pedal car race chaos
UNSEASONABLE weather caused chaos for entrants in this year's Bolton Round Table Mini Le-Mans pedal car race. Drivers in the popular event have been forced to endure gale force biting winds, and rain, during the 24-hour race at Moss Bank Park. Car three
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From the Evening News,
June 1, 1971 POP singers Engelbert Humperdinck and Tom Jones are 'fairly manufactured creatures, and don't deserve the furore that attends them'. Rudy Valee, the American singing star of the Twenties and Thirties, went on in a magazine interview in New
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Bolton road rage gun terror
DETECTIVES are probing a bizarre road rage incident in which two terrified men were threatened with a gun on the outskirts of Bolton town centre last night. A man leapt out of a car and threatened to shoot the driver and a passenger after a near collision
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Get fit - get a bike
IF you want to feel fitter and help the environment at the same time - then get on your bike. That's the message from National Bike Week which starts today (SAT) and is aimed at promoting cycling as a 'green' mode of transport and something that can make
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You're helping Rena
SIR: Thank you very much for publishing my letter on April 18 concerning the fight to help free Rena, the lioness, from her life of misery on the Greek island of Kos. I am pleased to tell BEN readers that thanks to their generosity £150 has been sent
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Still fighting!
SIR: I write regarding your article headed 'Bolton Set for £8m Court Fight' published in the Bolton Evenings News on May 25 1996 and your editorial comment on Monday May 27 1996. While the matter is one of extreme disappointment for the Bolton Magistrates
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Stepping back for charity
NEARLY 20 people from New Bury took a step backwards and raised money for the Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund. Organised by Eddie Birchall from Barton Road, Farnworth, the intrepid fund-raisers raised £50 by running backwards tied together as a group. Eddie
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Pay up
THE get tough legislation for water companies is very welcome. Ministers have agreed that domestic customers should receive £10, and businesses £50, for every day they are hit by standpipes or rota cuts. The compensation does not match that received by
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So convenient
AT a time when Bolton Council is shutting town centre loos, Bolton College is opening one for guide dogs. Full marks to the college for providing the facility which will enable students with guide dogs to spend full days at the college instead of nipping
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Gropers' guide
NO wonder parents in the Withywood area of Bristol are incensed about the methods used at their local NHS family planning clinic. Youngsters, some said to be as young as nine, are being given contraceptives, and a pamphlet called The Good Grope Guide.
