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Dogs add more bite to drug fight
BOLTON police are adding extra bite to their anti-drugs operation by introducing a new sniffer dog team to the town. As part of Greater Manchester Police's Operation Jigsaw anti-drugs enforcement campaign, the dogs and dog handlers are being drafted into
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Three teenagers die in crash
THREE teenagers were killed in a head-on crash last night. The smash happened when a Vauxhall Astra owned by Brian Rothwell of Liverpool Road, Hindley, was being driven along Liverpool Road, Hindley, towards Platt Bridge. It is believed that the teenage
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New stadium
SIR: The new stadium for BWFC should be Reebok Stadium, and re-naming Mansel Way with the name "Lofthouse Way". This would be my choice. B Willett, Halliwell, Bolton. Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have been
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Firework hell
SIR: Once more we are all subjected to the ear-splitting 'bangs' from fireworks, before November 5. The Houses of Parliament may have escaped the one single explosion, but the long-suffering public have been suffering ever since. Why do we celebrate '
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Fire chief blazing over early bonfires
EARLY bonfire revellers are being warned they could face big fines. During the past week Bolton firefighters have been called out on "countless" occasions to tend to early bonfires. Now a Bolton fire station boss is advising the eager Guy Fawkes' revellers
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Fair appeal
SIR: Bolton Lions Club needs a little bit of extra help from the good citizens of our district. We require more donated articles yet for our coming Autumn Fair (Saturday, November 16, Town Hall). Lions ready to collect can be contacted on 01204 415955
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Hit-run taxi driver hunted
A CALLOUS taxi driver left a man seriously injured in the road after a hit-and-run accident - the second in eight weeks involving a private hire vehicle. Allen Thompson, aged 20, was left screaming in agony after the accident in Scowcroft Street, Tonge
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Unfair to slam Peter
SIR: It's a bit rich of Robert Wilson, the new Conservative candidate for Bolton North East, to condemn Peter Thurnham the old one, for crossing over to the Liberal Democrats. When Robert did exactly the same in his home town of Reading. Robert Wilson
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Superb achievement
SIR: I refer to the WWF Walks for Wildlife on Sunday, October 13. On behalf of myself and our local Supporters Group we would like to thank the people of Bolton who took part in the above walks at Jumbles and Tockholes. The amount raised through sponsorship
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Wartime Wanderers
By TIM PURCELL AND MIKE GETHING. Part One AS the 14 year old Nat Lofthouse was enjoying his first taste of competitive football at Castle Hill school the rest of the adult population of Bolton was stealing itself for an altogether different contest: The
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Airports' security
EIGHT years after the Lockerbie bombing almost half of British airports lack the most up-to-date security equipment. A report drawn up by Transec, the Government's transport security arm, has found that 16 of the country's 33 airports either usual manual
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City have sights on Lucketti
BURY star defender Chris Lucketti may be out of Manchester City's plans for now - but he has not been forgotten by the Blues. Maine Road boss Steve Coppell ruled out an immediate move for the rock solid 24-year-old he bid £500,000 when he was Crystal
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Keep record intact - Todd
COLIN Todd today urged Wanderers to keep the Burnden fortress intact. Wanderers aim to protect the formidable home record which has been the backbone of their scintillating start when they face Reading tomorrow night and Huddersfield Town four days later
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RMI pay for Cup clangers
Leigh RMI 2 Runcorn 4 LEIGH RMI's FA Cup dream blew up in their faces when they handed Saturday's Fourth Qualifying Round tie on a plate to Runcorn. A catalogue of defensive slips - the first inside just 60 seconds - ruined Leigh's hopes of a possible
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Society 'didn't care' about tramp Stanley
FRIENDS of an elderly Bolton "down and out" whose body was found on spare land have hit out at "a community that didn't care". Stanley Pardon was known as The Wheelbarrow Man by the people who saw him regularly walking the streets of Bolton town centre
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Police hunt pensioner's missing purses
A WOMAN found with serious head injuries in a Leigh street was still fighting for her life in hospital today. Spinster Ellen Bootle, aged 92, of Endsleigh Gardens, Leigh, was found on Bond Street in the town centre at 11.20am last Thursday. Miss Bootle
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Soccer hope
SIR: Through your newspaper could I make the following appeal. We are a local junior football club in desperate need of a secure steel container to store our equipment in. We have no funds to buy or hire one and are looking for a good samaritan who could
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Hard climb ahead for Everest brothers
BROTHERS Dave and Garry Hall are reaching for the sky. For the adventurous duo are planning to be the first brothers from the North West to scale Mt Everest, the world's highest peak at 29,028 feet. The brothers know they have set themselves an enormous
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What's in a name
SIR: I have no doubt that the powers that be will name the new stadium. It still should be called, 'Bolton Wanderers Stadium', after all the spectators will be paying for it, in the end, with everything going up in price. If they can afford to go. Two
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TV research on the Pill
SIR: I work for BBC television and am currently researching the impact the Pill scare had on woman last October. Did you stop taking the Pill after hearing that certain brands of the contraception pill could result in health problems and consequently
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Shopping scene has suffered
SIR: I quote from 'Looking Back' in the BEN on Monday, October 7. Twenty five years ago Bolton Planning Committee opposed a plan to build a new supermarket on land off Mansell Way, Horwich, on the grounds it would ruin established shopping centres in
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Low pay and poverty
SIR: When Winston Churchill introduced the principle of state regulation against low pay through the Wages Councils in 1909, presumably he felt that there was a basic unfairness and inequality in society to justify state intervention. The removal of the
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Poet's Corner
There he goes the Sandwich Board Man, Up and down around the town. In the wind, in the rain, Smiling sheepishly, hiding his shame. The children think he's fair game! Avoiding eyes, he stares the ground, Hungry, jobless, this is all he's found. Inside
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Soccer heroes who went to war
Bolton Wanderers are riding on the crest of a wave. But, back in 1939 their wartime counterparts put football aside to fight en masse in the Second World War. Tomorrow, a new book is launched in Bolton, Wartime Wanderers recounts these exploits, and previews
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Good advice
WE hope that all bingo players heed the advice from Bolton solicitor Toby Williamson. Commenting after the case in which his client, Ken Jones, failed in his attempt to sue his former bingo partner for a share of a £5,333 bingo prize, Mr Willamson warned
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25 YEARS AGO
From the Evening News, October 28, 1971 THE Cabinet has decided to abolish the office of alderman from the local councils of Britain. AFTER over 40 years as a cinema, the Studio 1, Farnworth, will close on Saturday to be re-opened shortly as a bingo and
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Non-league soccer action
ATHERTON LR 1 BRADFORD PARK AVENUE 3 ATHERTON LR crashed at home to Bradford Park Avenue, largely due yet again to defensive errors. The Yorkshiremen took an early lead when Milton Brown capitalised on a mistake by keeper Andy Hills. Bradford's long ball
