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Bosnia veteran on recruiting tour
TWO Bolton soldiers just back from a tour of duty in war torn Bosnia will be visiting their home town as part of a recruiting tour organised by their regiment. Private Alan Lewarne, aged 21, will be among the recruitment team from the Queen's Lancashire
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Holiday couple in gun raid terror
A BOLTON pensioner told today how he and his wife were threatened with a gun after being robbed on holiday in Greece. Mr David Holmes and his wife Valerie say they will never go back to Corfu after their terrifying ordeal. They were awakened in the early
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Restaurant in hunt boycott storm
ANTI-BLOODSPORTS campaigners are calling for a boycott of one of Bolton's most popular restaurants unless an assurance is given that it will not be used by hunting groups. The call follows protests over a Holcombe Hunt dinner due to be held at the Smithills
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Doctor hits back in vaccine row
BOLTON's public health bosses are spearheading a nationwide drive against measles. But opposition groups have hit out at the latest campaign, which has Government backing. They accuse health chiefs of failing to inform parents of the possible side effects
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School days
SIR: I am writing to ask if any of your readers could help me in my research into the pros and cons of inclusive eduction. I would like to hear from parents of children or adults with learning disabilities, or, even better, the people themselves. I would
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Fighting on their behalf...
SIR: I take it as something of a compliment to discover that the only criticism my political opponents can come up with of me is that I was on strike in 1979. I can only say in reply that I have been employed by Beloit Walmsley for a total of 28 years
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How can Labour keep quiet over tactics?
SIR: It is bizarre to keep hearing that Tony Blair has taken up the Conservative policies after years of opposing them. John Major must feel very pleased that he has convinced the leader of the Opposition to his way of thinking. It was very noticeable
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Out of this world!
SIR: It seems that we are in another cycle of UFO sightings. People wonder at what they see and some ponder as to whether or not to keep silent about what they have seen. As in the past, a lot of people are still dubious about the phenomenon, but after
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Rachel and Lee -faces of the year
THESE two Bolton teenagers ARE the Young Faces of 96 - and that's official! Rachel Clark, of Horseshoe Lane, Bromley Cross, and Lee Darcy, from Wigan Road, Deane, have just won this top title in a competition run by the Bolton Evening News in conjunction
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Intensive care for hedgehogs!
A BOLTON hospital is aiming to provide hi-tech creature comforts to prickly patients in need of care. What started as a hospital for all wild animals in Little Lever, has developed into a highly specialised unit - because one kind of patient started to
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Healthy launch for ethnic care plan
BOLTON health bosses have launched a determined bid to improve care for the ethnic community. The move has come with the launch of the Ethnic Minority Health Forum which aims to target the health needs of Bolton's ethnic groups. The official launch, attended
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Fumes scare pupils get all clear
PUPILS of Kearsley's George Tomlinson High School who were affected by fumes in a science lesson yesterday have been given the all clear. As reported in later editions of last night's BEN , nine pupils from the Kearsley school were taken to Bolton General
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From the BEN files:
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, September 28, 1971 LADY Fleming, widow of penicillin discoverer Sir Alexander Fleming, was today gaoled for 15 months for her part in a plot to help a prisoner escape. Lady Fleming, Greek born, but with both Greek and
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Substitute for success
COLIN Todd doesn't just talk about the 'squad system' - he uses it. The Burnden boss, doing his best to keep all his senior players happy, takes every opportunity to hammer home the point that he regards his 'team' as 20-strong rather than just the 11
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Lucketti's injury nightmare ends
CHRIS Lucketti will be glad to get back in the side - for a rest! The £500,000-rated Shakers centre half is coming to the end of his first extended injury lay-off. And it has been the busiest time of his career. The picture fans have of injured players
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Bolton nurses to get 3.3pc pay rise
NURSING staff in Bolton have accepted a pay rise of 3.3 per cent. The settlement is made up of a 2pc national award and 1.3pc agreed locally. The news was given at the annual public meeting of Bolton Community Health Trust when plans for the year were
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Job-hunting graduates tap in to net
BOLTON Institute has an added ally in its battle to find jobs for graduates . . . the Internet. The Institute is once again running its successful Job Search Skills Course for graduates. The course is one day a week for 10 weeks with a job club in the
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Sea Cadets are landed!
BOLTON Sea Cadets will soon be travelling around in style, thanks to an £11,880 grant from the Sport and the Arts Foundation to buy a much-needed new minibus. The 55 cadets, who meet in the evening and at weekends, are currently dependent on a rundown
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Medical student is tonic for shoppers
WHEN it comes to keeping shoppers happy, checkout assistant Richard Heyes is just what the doctor ordered. During the medical student's two years of holiday jobs at his local ASDA store in Astley Bridge, he has had plenty of praise. But now, the 19 years-old
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Island death man held
A MAN who fled Tenerife while being held in connection with the death of a Bolton man is in jail in Britain, the BEN can reveal today. He was arrested by immigration officials when he arrived back in the country carrying a false passport last month. As
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Poet's Corner
Enigma The Mind! A computer greater than any man has invented A Universe in itself implanted, By the author of all life since time began A marvel to modern man, who in his puny way Does scientific exercises, the masses for to sway And to persuade the
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Police bid to block £5.5m bars scheme
POLICE are trying to block a £5.5 million continental style bar development planned for the centre of Bolton. They have asked magistrates to refuse liquor licences vital to a multi-million pound project which would transform Nelson Square. Developers
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Nat's glory days
SIR: I can understand Bolton Wanderers' desire to generate some revenue by offering to allow a commercial sponsor to have their name associated with the new ground. However, I cannot understand why they would allow the Council to come up with the 'real
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Top award for Rotary 'father'
ROTARIAN Richard Hellaby has received the Rotary movement's coveted Richard Harris Fellowship for his service to the Rotary Club of Bolton. Mr Hellaby was "father" of the much younger Bolton-le-Moors Club which formed on the initiative of the Bolton Rotary
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Last of the free parking
COUNCIL chiefs are set to end the last free on-street parking near Bolton town centre. They want to bring in waiting restrictions in the Breightmet Street, Shifnall Street, Salop Street and River Street areas. It has been the only place close to many
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Blooming good effort from pupils
COLOURFUL reminders of this year's Bolton in Bloom competition have been created by these artistic youngsters. They are all winners in the Bolton in Bloom colouring competition sponsored by the council's People and Places programme, the Bolton Evening
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Danger drivers face school parking ban
LAZY motorists will be banned from parking near a Bolton primary school. Waiting restrictions are to be brought in along the Orchard Gardens cul-de-sac near Harwood Meadows County Primary School. Last week, a school secretary had to ask drivers to move
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Pub poser
BOLTON's booming leisure developments are all aimed at family enjoyment. So police opposition to a £5.5 million Continental-style bar development in Nelson Square seems odd, especially as the developers say it would cater for shoppers, families and an
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Making a meal of it
BLOODSPORTS is an issue that invariably gets many people's blood boiling - and now some folk seem to be on the verge of choking on their chicken dinners because of the hunting controversy. As today's story reveals, anti-bloodsports campaigners are calling
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Bolton a bit of a 'soft' touch
WANDERERS might have excelled for 75 minutes at Bradford but it's what happened in the other 15 that must have dominated Colin Todd's thoughts in the wake of the 4-2 win. The Burnden boss has no fears about his adventurous attacking policy continuing
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Iceman caps it!
GUDNI Bergsson should be a record breaker when he returns from his World Cup mission with Iceland. Two games in the space of four days will see the Wanderers skipper become his country's most capped player. Bergsson, who made his international bow in
