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Seal of approval for name change . . .
A WELL-established Bolton company has announced a name change. Nash Sealing Systems Ltd in Nile Street has become Nash Mechanical Seal Services Ltd. Managing director Barry Hoyle said: "Although the change in name appears relatively minor, recent market
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Electric blankets shocker!
SHOCKED trading standards officers discovered a dangerous 40-year-old electric blanket in a safety crackdown in Bolton. The ageing unsafe blanket was the most startling item handed in by the public during a three day 'health-check' of the town's electric
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Council pitches in to help soccer clubs
A JUNIOR football club had grounds for delight after scoring a hat-trick with its new facilities, courtesy of Bolton Council. Two pitches and changing rooms have been developed at the former St Cuthbert's RC Secondary School playing fields off Old Kiln
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I'm not soap star Joe!
A BEMUSED Bolton man is being bombarded with fan mail and adoring phone calls from teenage girls who think he is EastEnders pin-up Joe Wicks. Paul Greenhalgh (aged 37 and at least 17 stone, according to his wife Linda) is being targeted by hordes of teenagers
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Driver blocked woman's car then clamped it
A WOMAN motorist on her first visit to Bolton had her car clamped after driving into a car park - to turn round! Mrs Madge Mitchell who lives in Halifax, says she was about to drive out of the car park on Higher Bridge Street next to the Stanley Casino
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Let's make Bolton a healthier place
BOLTON'S schoolchildren are being asked to come up with a blueprint for a healthier environmental future for the area. The Bolton Evening News, the Rotary Club of Bolton-le-Moors and Bolton Environment Forum have got together to stage the Bolton Youth
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Town set for dancing in the streets
BOLTON is set to co-host a major international festival of street entertainment and cultural animation for the Millennium - if enough cash can be raised to get it off the ground. The town has been invited to take part in the Greater Manchester Streets
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Cameras to target town centre car criminals
A MAJOR new installation of video cameras designed to catch Bolton criminals 'in the act' in all the main town centre council car parks will be switched on next week. Four new CCTV cameras will be the first phase of a £270,000 project designed to make
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Don't waste any names!
SIR: If Bob Howarth and his Bolton Councillors are so keen to have Bolton Wanderers new football ground immediately next door to their other prestigious development for Horwich - the proposed Greater Manchester giant rubbish tip at Red Moss - why not
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Make a run for us
SIR: Attention all 1997 London Marathon Runners! 1997 is the year that the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals reaches its 80th birthday and as part of the celebrations we would like to have 80 athletes running to represent us in the 1997 London Marathon
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Top man Chris
THE success and continuity of most angling clubs are entirely due to the efforts of the organisers and at times being a leading light of a club can be a thankless task. Therefore it is particularly pleasing when one of the best is recognised by way of
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Honourable..!
SIR: John Major's conference speech had all the characteristics that we have come to expect from this government - lies, lies and more lies. He boasted that his party was 'honourable and true'. Yet is this the same party that took £400,000 from fugitive
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Car park needed here
SIR: May I though your columns draw your attention to what I believe will be only a matter of time before someone's life is lost either directly due to an accident or indirectly due to the delay of emergency services reaching their destination on life
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Leigh take leading role
ONLY four points separate third and 12th place in the Premier Division. Above the chasing pack, top two Leigh Athletic and Walshaw SC met on Saturday and swapped places as a result of Leigh's 3-1 win. The Bolton connection of the division fared badly.
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Out of Africa - Nigel drums up a success
A BOLTON composer who embarked on a "musical pilgrimage" through Uganda and Kenya, has put the results into a Radio 2 programme due to be broadcast this Saturday. "Filled With The Glory: Songs From The Heart Of Africa", goes on air at 10pm and is the
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Crackdown on car clampers on way
THE government is looking at introducing new laws cracking down on car clampers. Home Secretary Michael Howard has told the BEN that he is actively considering legislation to step the activities of firms who unscrupulously immobilise vehicles without
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Battle to save jobs in £37m budget cuts
PLANS are being drawn up for a painless end to City Challenge when the £37 million budget runs out in 1998. Funding for the government sponsored scheme to transform Halliwell comes to an end in 18 months time. But management believe they have to act now
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Clamping down
NEW laws to crack down on unscrupulous clamping firms around the country must be brought in as a matter of urgency. Home Secretary Michael Howard tells the BEN today that he is actively considering such legislation, but that there are considerable "difficulties
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In poor Nick! Millwall 1, Bury 0
NICK Daws' six-yard miss when unmarked cost Bury a point, after they had allowed Anton Rogan to strike from 25 yards in the first half. Bury's defence had a torrid time for the initial 45 minutes, with Chris Lucketti and Dean West often outnumbered and
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Energy save firm's award
HORWICH Castings has been commended in this year's Norweb Business Energy Awards. The Awards recognise companies and organisations which use electricity to improve business performance and productivity, benefit the environment and make savings through
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Big brother is getting bigger!
A BOLTON company is growing as demand increases for public sector surveillance systems. BCS Security of Chorley Old Road provides equipment which includes traffic control cameras at motorway roadworks, town centre surveillance schemes and integrated electronic
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Bolton reacts to hand gun ban
LOCAL shooting enthusiasts have bitterly condemned the handgun ban announced by the Government yesterday. Angry firearms expert Brian Ford, a member of Bolton Gun Club based in Chorley Old Road, said: "The Government's announcement has effectively killed
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Recycle firm bosses banned from business
BOSSES of a former Horwich recycling firm have been banned from going into business again for several years after their company went to the wall. Charles Kenyon of Warrington and Paul Armstrong of Little Scotland, Blackrod, have been disqualified from
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Get town in the title
SIR: I have read all the names given for the new football ground and, as it will be Bolton Wanderers' ground, why not keep the word 'Bolton' in the new name? Could there not be some way to let the public vote by putting a few names in the paper to choose
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Double standards
SIR: The hypocrisy and double standard of the Conservative Party stand out. MPs can get thousands extra on top of their salaries by putting questions in Parliament while Social Security is spending millions to stop a few on the dole making any extra to
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Men's Hockey: Simms pen clinches thriller for Bolton
IN the latest round of the lace Mawer league, Bolton 1st 1X won an epic battle with Wirral-based club Bebbington 3-2. Bebbington had the edge for most of the first half but it was Bolton who took the lead through a brilliant piece of individual skill
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Forum's future mission
A TOP-LEVEL conference yesterday pledged to take Bolton town centre into the 21st century as "the best in the North West." More than 200 delegates were at the Centre Forward conference in the Albert Halls in Bolton Town Hall. A variety of "stakeholders
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I found a friend
SIR: Through Bolton Worldwide Netlist run by the BEN you enabled me to find Billy Dolan, a friend I had not seen since 1936. It was wonderful to hear from him! I sent him a message tape and hope to come back one day soon to see him in person. Would you
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Bring jewellery on board
SIR: The Royal National Lifeboat Institution is supported entirely by voluntary contributions, receiving no money from Government. This year it is costing over £63 million to run the lifeboat service. Our brave volunteer crews are always willing to face
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Classroom wrecked by blazing stolen car
A CLASSROOM was wrecked by fire after a stolen car was rammed into the building and set alight. The stolen Metro was smashed into the front of the Twelve Apostles RC junior and infant school in Nel Pan Lane, Leigh, and driven through two classrooms. Firefighters
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Poet's Corner
I thought when I retired, I was in for lots of fun. Just doing all my hobbies, Or sitting, relaxing, in the sun. But my wife, she thought, quite differently, She said - there're lots of things to do. You can go and dig the garden, Then paint the bathroom
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Mum's wedding pictures go missing
PHOTOGRAPHS of great sentimental value went missing when a Bolton woman lost her camera at the weekend. Mrs Ann Lockley, 52, of Redcar Road, Little Lever, does not know if she left the camera at her son's wedding reception or whether someone took it on
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Airways to Heaven
Nick Jackson meets the committed Christians behind Bolton's new radio station CHURCHMEN have been known to describe radio as the instrument of the devil. But some inventive local Christians have set about proving that although radio may be an instrument
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Students are hi-tech science lab wonders
STAFF and pupils have celebrated successful results after a £20,000 experiment to create latest science facilities at their school. The 12 month project came to an end this week when Bolton's director of education Margaret Blenkinsopp officially opened
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Needles danger
THE announcement of a pilot scheme to clean up dirty syringes discarded in Bolton's housing and estates and parks highlights the extent of the drugs problem locally. This is not a matter of a handful of "druggies" being active in one area of town, but
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From the BEN files
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, October 17, 1971 BOLTON medical research campaigner Mr Tom Lever sets out next Tuesday on his second attempt to beat the world non-stop walking record of 218 miles. Last October Mr Lever was taken ill after covering
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Waiting game for Frandsen
PER Frandsen's hopes of an international recall may have to go on hold because Denmark's national boss can't get round to seeing him play. Bo Johansson had hinted he may consider 26-year-old Frandsen and his Bolton Wanderers team-mate Michael Johansen
