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Forging the right link
LINKMAN Tankers of Moss Hall Road, Bury has reached the Investors in People standard. The award, which follows rigorous asssesment by the Bolton Bury Training and Enterprise Council, has been achieved across all sites and operations in the UK. Linkman
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Asbestos hazard danger warning
A SEMINAR about the dangers of asbestos is being held in Bolton on Thursday. Bolton Council and Bolton and Bury Chamber of Commerce are staging the event as part of Phase II of the Good Health is Good Business campaign. A Bolton council spokesman said
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New role for Sir Ernest
ONE of Bolton's most famous sons has been appointed as the new Chancellor of the University of Huddersfield. Sir Ernest Hall, whose father was a mule-spinner at Eagle Mill, has achieved national acclaim as a musician and business entrepreneur. He started
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Videos aim to combat store violence
LARGER chain stores are lending a hand to the smaller shopkeeper by sponsoring two new videos and information packs, designed to combat crime. The initiative is aimed at reducing violent attacks on retailers in small, more vulnerable, outlets. Entitled
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Edna, 90, calls it a day
BRITAIN'S longest serving RSPCA volunteer is finally hanging up her collecting tin after 60 years on the front-line. And this time, Farnworth stalwart Edna Lomax, who is 90 today, insists that she really is calling it a day. She announced her retirement
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Group's helping hand against the bully boys
ORGANISERS of Bolton's home-grown bully-busting project have urged worried youngsters to get in touch with them instead of suffering in silence. A new report by national charity ChildLine has revealed that bullying is a growing problem and they cannot
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Arson suspected as blaze kills mare
A HORSE was killed when a devastating blaze, thought to have been started by arsonists, swept through a stable in Tyldesley last night. The small stable - home to a 27-year-old mare - was found ablaze off Squires Lane shortly after 9.30pm. A total of
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Crutches crusade needs support!
THE people of Bolton are being urged to search through their lofts, cellars, garden sheds and sanalysetair cupboards to find crutches, walking frames, sticks and wheelchairs which may be lurking there. Bolton Round Table is organising a "Crutches Amnesty
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Club bids for Lottery cash to fund new HQ
BOLTON Lads' and Girls' Club today revealed ambitious plans to raise £1.75m - so it can become "the best youth club in the country." The hugely popular club is bursting at the seams and is to ask for National Lottery cash for a purpose-built new home.
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Bolton Tory cash shock
BOLTON Tories have raised just £600 between them for the General Election election fighting fund - despite the fact that polling day is just months away. And Conservatives in Home Office Minister Tom Sackville's marginal and largely affluent Bolton West
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Bolton Evening News special survey: Should we return to
corporal punishment in our schools? A CALL for the return of corporal punishment in schools has been backed by Bolton folk - except for those young enough to be on the receiving end. As reported in the BEN last night, prospective parliamentary Tory candidate
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New Labour will destroy school
SIR: Anybody who saw the television programme about our own Canon Slade School will understand what an excellent school it is. We should all be very proud of its achievements as they reflect positively on the town. What a pity that New Labour intends
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Rams too hot to handle
Table Tennis by ALAN CALVERT RAMSBOTTOM A turned in a good all-round performance to beat Meadow Hill A in the Premier Division this week. Graham Hoy, Nigel Hallows and Steve McNicholas won two each - all falling to Jim Chadwick - in a 6-3 victory away
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Three make quick move for Leigh job
JUST 24 hours after the resignation of coach Eric Hughes, Leigh have already had three enquiries for the Hilton Park vacancy. One application has come from overseas while the other two are from much closer to home. But Leigh will preserve confidentiality
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Join the Imperial Belles
SIR: Hello, I'm Honor Blackman, and I'm appealing to all your female readers who are 55 or over and are thinking of taking part in the London Marathon. As some of you will now be applying for 1997 London Marathon places, I wanted to take this opportunity
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Show cancelled
THERE'S bad news for everyone who was looking forward to the Marco Players' production of The Beverly Hillbillies which had been due to open at the Church Hall, Chorley Old Road Methodist Church tomorrow. Director David Holt said that because of technical
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Trivial pursuits
St ANNE'S Amateur Theatre Workshop are staging Trivial Pursuits by Frank Vickery from October 16 to 19 at the Neighbourhood Centre, Clifton - next to St Anne's Church on the A666 between Clifton and Swinton. The Workshop is celebrating its 36th year with
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Shakin' all over
THE production ofJohn Godber's Shakers by St Bede's ADS last month, was so popular they have been asked to put on a repeat peformance this Friday at the Jolly Carter pub, Church Street, Little Lever. The play, directed by Frank Swann, will be staged in
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Panto rehearsals
ST PAUL'S Amateur Plays are starting rehearsals for their pantomime Aladdin which opens on December 28 at the Community Centre, Railway Road, Adlington. But they still have a number of principal roles, particularly for men, not yet cast. Aladdin is directed
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Lunchtime concerts taking off
THE lunchtime concerts at St Andrew and St George United Reformed Church, St George's Road, Bolton, organised by Borough Organist Brian Smith are proving popular. This Thursday , Brian will be joined by mezzo soprano Gillian Capper, pictured left. Gillian
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Tough game for Railwaymen
LEIGH RMI make the short journey to third placed Flixton tonight in the knowledge that a victory would put them on level points with two games in hand. The Railwaymen are in seventh place and are unbeaten in 11 games but boss Steve Waywell reckons that
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Keeping
guard THE Army's Ulster headquarters should have been the Province's most guarded installation. But someone managed to plant two car bombs which were detonated, injuring 31 people including two children. There is speculation that terrorists posed as site
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CHAT's the way to do it!
THERE were bakers lined up alongside solicitors, and a team from the Inland Revenue following in the footsteps of a team from the BBC - Boddingtons Behind The Community. In fact, all kinds of teams, from pubs, clubs, companies and corporations took part
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Soldier's welcome for MoD admission
A FORMER combat medic whose life was destroyed by "Gulf War Syndrome" has welcomed an admission from the Ministry of Defence that soldiers have been poisoned by pesticides used in the desert. Andrew Honer, aged 39, a surgical technician from Little Hulton
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Consider personalities
SIR: Pikes Lane, then Burnden, both place names. Why not Horwich Park? As one who has watched Wanderers from during the First World War, I have possibly forgotten more names than I remember, but when it comes to perpetuating a name one has to be most
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Working around the world
SIR: I would like to bring to the attention of your readers that on October 30 there will be a meeting of VSO supporters at Brunel Gallery, School of Oriental & African Studies, Russell Square, London. This event gives VSO the opportunity to report
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Intimidation!
SIR: Once again your headlines "Restaurant in hunt boycott storm" (BEN, September 28) highlight the intimidation that anti-field sports protesters will stoop to, to further their aims. Any individual or group is entitled to book a restaurant or other
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They're banking on success
THE NatWest Bank are presenting a special charity evening of popular music and song featuring Eagley Brass Band, Canon Slade Singers and Smithills School Senior Big Band at the Albert Halls, Bolton, on Friday, October 18 at 7.30 pm. The Canon Slade Singers
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Poet's Corner
I think I'll paint a picture, A dramatic Highland view. Or shall I make it still life, A vase, an orange or two? I think I'll write a novel, Set in a wondrous land. With romance and lovers meeting, On sunny, sea washed sand. I think I'll try to whip up
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Sinfonietta is full of promise
THE first performance of the newly formed Bolton Sinfonietta (formerly the Academy of St Anne) on September 28 attracted very favourable comments. The Chapel at Thornleigh Salesian College provided a delightful setting , I'm told, and conductor Paul Payon
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Show's gospel message
PHARISEE, an exciting, new musical with a Christian message, will be staged at the Victoria Hall, Bolton, later this month. Composed and directed by Roger Jones, the show features the Christian Music Ministries' soloists, dancers and instrumentalists
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Salad Days, St Catherine's Amateur Music Society, Harper Green School, Farnworth. Runs until Saturda
Witty musical's 'gay' abandon THIS is a whimsical tale from an era when the word "gay" simply meant happy. The script is liberally scattered with "gays" and the show is blessed with a plentiful supply of wittily written songs. It's a story so light-hearted
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Maureen's stage struck
PART-TIME DJ Maureen Young's first taste of the stage left her yearning for more. She appeared as a slave girl in the panto Sinbad the Sailor with St Joseph's Players earlier this year. That gave her the chance to belt out a few songs, her first love.
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Can you solve John's crystal maze?
A BUILDER is trying to find the owner of a crystal Christening glass. About five years ago, John Gregory, who runs Gregory & Son joiners and builders in Belmont Road, was asked to demolish a terrace block off Winter Hey Lane, in Horwich. In one of
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Don't interfere
THE GOVERNMENT's new rules about how jobless people should dress to claim benefit are a nonsense. One person's "scruffy" is another person's "trendy". It should not be left to Job Centre staff to assess whether claimants are tidy and presentable enough
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25 YEARS AGO
From the Evening News, October 7, 1971 THE 45-day hunt for Frederick Joseph Sewell, Britain's most wanted man, ended at dawn today at a terraced house in a dingy north London street when police, some of them armed, burst into a bedroom. He will now appear
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Stant still has Bury future, Stan
BURY boss Stan Ternent today told wantaway striker Phil Stant: "I want you to stay." Veteran goal poacher Stant believes his time is up at Gigg Lane due to a lack of first team opportunities and domestic difficulties caused by living in the Midlands and
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Thompson on brink of ban
ALAN Thompson is walking a disciplinary tightrope...seven weeks into the season. The Wanderers midfield ace, whose form has been a revelation, is just one booking away from an automatic three-match suspension. But Colin Todd sees the rash of yellow cards
