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Union happy with town's mental health report
BRITAIN's biggest nursing union has welcomed the publication of a far-reaching report into the state of mental health services in Bolton. The Royal College of Nurses, which represents many of the nursing staff on the psychiatric unit at the Royal Bolton
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School goes 'private'
BOLTON may get one of the country's first council-run schools - built with private cash. Council chiefs have put together an ambitious £4 million scheme at Castle Hill in the Tonge Moor area. It would include a primary school, a youth club, a library,
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Cash cuts will hit the streets
BOLTON'S litter problem is set to become worse because of council cash cuts. Bins will be emptied less frequently, the streets will not be swept as often and a plan to take on an enforcement officer has been axed. Planning and environment committee councillors
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Irish eyes will smile on special needs children
SUPPORTERS of a special exchange visit between disabled children in Bolton and Ireland enjoy a sit down before a fund-raising dance in April. The Bolton branch of the Irish in Britain Representation group is putting on a Ceilidh dance at the Bradford
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Stolen car rams house
A TEENAGE grief-rider smashed into the front of a house at the end of a high speed police chase. The car thief brought terror to the streets of Farnworth last night as he raced along residential streets and across a busy junction. The stolen Hyundai Accent
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Do you have what it takes to be a puppy walker?
DEDICATED puppy walkers are needed to help give potential guide dogs for the blind the best possible start in life. The hand picked pups, that could go on to give a blind person freedom and companionship, need tender loving care and constant attention
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Fans may be Leigh key to Wembley
LEIGH'S vocal support could be the key factor in Sunday's Silk Cut Plate quarter-final showdown with first division Whitehaven Warriors at Hilton Park. "The fans could swing it for us," declares coach Keith Latham, hoping to steer his side into the semi-final
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Premier prices
SIR: I wish to reply to the letter by Mark Fissons recently regarding poor support for the Wanderers at the cup match with Luton. I think the crowds would be larger if the price of admission were reviewed by the board of directors. The current price of
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An injustice!
All should be treated the same SIR: I would like to take the chance to air my views with regards to the grave injustice my family and friends feel that has been done to my brother. My brother was sentenced three weeks ago for possession of an A1 class
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Injuries hit RMI fightback plans
LEIGH RMI have had a disappointing week but they have an early chance to put things right when they entertain Worksop Town at Hilton Park tomorrow. They dropped out of the top three for the first time in months after the midweek 2-1 defeat by Farsley,
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Poet's Corner
Emotions, emotions, Confusions and commotions. Love makes you happy and Love makes you sad. Where do they come, from your heart Or your head? It's happy when you meet someone, It's sad when you part. So that is the answer? It comes from your heart. Linda
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A farcical performance
It Runs in the Family, Marco Players Chorley Old Road Methodist Church. Runs until Saturday. THIS comedy by Ray Cooney requires four doors and a window for its almost-bewildering number of entrances and exits. At last night's performance, the timing of
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Cause for alarm
REVELATIONS that elderly people suffering from depression are being treated alongside drug addicts, alcoholics and the seriously mental ill in Royal Bolton Hospital is a cause for great concern. But the Wigan and Bolton Health Authority are to be commended
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Stan banks on tried and trusted stars
STAN Ternent will rely on the players who have got Bury this far to try to complete their promotion dream. The Shakers boss has admitted he has no money to spend on new players and any success this season is going to have to come from within. Speculation
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Todd's battle cry
COLIN Todd has told his star performers to snub the snipers by continuing to enjoy life at the top. The Burnden boss has been irritated by suggestions that his runaway leaders have gone off the boil. He's laughed off suggestions that their form has "slumped
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Wanderers can rely on experience
IT shouldn't be necessary but, if it is going to come down to a battle of nerves, Wanderers have what it takes to clinch promotion. The vast majority of the squad has been there and done it. They've even got the T-shirts and baseball caps to prove it!
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LR future is on the line
ATHERTON LR's Unibond future could be decided tomorrow when they travel to fellow relegation strugglers Gretna. A victory for third from bottom LR would give them a 10 point cushion over Gretna, who along with Warrington, occupy the two relegation places
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Glendon looking to build up Boro squad
TOP OF the table Radcliffe Borough may be going great guns in the League as well as reaching two cup semi finals but manager Kevin Glendon is still looking to strengthen his squad. His priority is a striker and he will now widen the net after being unable
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Cushy number for thespians
THESPIANS are being invited to tread the boards in one of Bolton's well-known rock venues. The idea is to introduce 'Pub Theatre' at the Crown and Cushion in Mealhouse Lane. Pub Theatre has caught on in London and Manchester, and now owner Greg Mullins
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Spying game
IT is disgraceful that unscrupulous employers, some of them in Bolton, are taking advantage of young people's desperation for jobs by making them work for nothing for six months. That situation is intolerable and every effort must be made to clamp down
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From the BEN files
From the Evening News, February 21, 1972 PRESIDENT Nixon today met Chairman Mao Tse-Tung of China. The Communists gave the first US President to visit China while in office a correctly formal and friendly but low-key welcome. This was in keeping with
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Bolton are the tops
WANDERERS, runaway leaders in the league, are also streets ahead in the race for a 'fair play' award ... despite their poor disciplinary record. The barnstorming Burnden boys are top of the FA Fair Play charts on the strength of their amazing goal power
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Business is soaring!
INTERNATIONAL scheduled business traffic at Manchester Airport last month rose 14 per cent to 309,684 passengers. It was due to increases on flights to India, Pakistan, Spain, France, the Czech Republic and Amsterdam. The total number of passengers using
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Enterprise boldly goes...
GUESTS boldly went to an official opening ceremony with a difference. There was a Star Trek theme when the new £250,000 enterprise training centre in Washington Street, Bolton was opened by Cllr Jack Foster, Chairman of Bolton Council's Planning and Environment
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Bolton's oldest woman is 107
A FORMER mill worker has become Bolton's oldest woman and received her SEVENTH telegram from the Queen. Margaret Blakeley celebrated her 107th birthday quietly at a residential home in Deane. Family and friends gathered around the sprightly pensioner
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Sackville challenged over Lever Park Bill
CLLR Barbara Ronson, Bolton West Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the Liberal Democrats, has challenged MP Tom Sackville over the controversial Lever Park Bill. Cllr Mrs Ronson has written to the MP for Bolton West and Home Office minister to ask
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Minister urged to resign over boy's death
A BOLTON MP is calling for a public inquiry and the resignation of Bolton MP and Home Office Minister Tom Sackville following the death of an 18-year-old heroin addict. As revealed in last night's BEN, Phillip Saunders - who once played in the same football
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My thanks
SIR: To the person or persons who found the two spring parcel hooks on a shopping trolley at Morrisons in Bolton and were good enough and honest to return them, I say a big 'thank-you'. It's nice to know that I am not the only honest person in the town
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No reply!
SIR: I have been following the correspondence between Christine Adams and Cllr. Brian Iddon about the record of David Young MP. Cllr Iddon seems to think that Mr Young was a good MP; an opinion to which he is certainly entitled. A few years ago I wrote
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Sell-out success is the forecast!
SIR: I write to correct the facts used by your correspondent B Smith in his letter about the Festival Opera production of August 30 and 31 this year. The first half of the programme, a short opera by Mozart, will be given in the Festival Hall (not the
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Sympathy for all of them
SIR: Mr R Sheare (BEN February 1) is his usual confused self. If he takes the trouble to read Mr G Baxter's letters he will see that he does not think that the late Mr Hamilton was mentally ill - he thinks that he was 'an evil man determined to commit
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Now's the time to object
SIR: Despite outrage over a scheme to build Europe's latest open cast coal mine in Little Hulton, not one objection has been sent to planners which are Salford, Bolton and Wigan councils who are considering the revised scheme submitted by RJB. Now the
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Wanderers can rely on experience in promotion countdown
By GORDON SHARROCK IT shouldn't be necessary but, if it is going to come down to a battle of nerves, Wanderers have what it takes to clinch promotion. The vast majority of the squad has been there and done it. They've even got the T-shirts and baseball
