Archive
-
Date
Like losing a loved one
SIR: Leaving Burnden Park for the last time was the only part of the night I am happy I will not have to relive again. Many fans will agree losing Burnden is like losing a loved one. Billy Waterhouse Prestbury Road, Sharples Previous news story Converted
-
Date
My schoolboy heroes
SIR: It is some 47 years since I was last at Burnden Park, but I was a regular during the war years and also in the immediate post war era. My schoolboy hero was Nat Lofthouse, and I remember such players as Stan Hanson, Harry Hubbick, Tommy Woodward,
-
Date
Food museum plans left to simmer
AN ambitious plan to make Bolton the home of a new national museum of food has been put on the back burner. The multi-million pound scheme was aimed at setting up The Great British Kitchen at Horwich. But no agreement has been reached on the sale of the
-
Date
Home alone mum moves into Bolton
THE barmaid who became a national hate figure when she left her two children with strangers while she jetted off on holiday is now living in Bolton. Diane Bogg was at the centre of a Home Alone scandal when she lived in Warrington. And there was outrage
-
Date
Greetings from Oz
Sir: I have just returned home to Perth, Australia this week, after a three week stay in my home town of Bolton and wanted you to know that as soon as Saturday arrived I went on the "NET" to find out how the last game at Burden Park went...to my amazement
-
Date
Words of love in times of war. . .
FRIENDSHIPS forged between Lancashire people and German prisoners of war is the subject of a new book which has just been launched in the North West. "Enemies Become Friends" is the title of the book by author Pamela Howe Taylor, who used to live in the
-
Date
No place for centre spot
SIR: I would like to place on record my utter disappointment at the way the 'removal of the centre spot' was carried out at last Friday's historic game at Burnden Park. The point I am referring to, was when the centre spot was lifted out of the pitch.
-
Date
An incredible night
SIR: Friday April 25. What an incredible night. At 6.20pm, I turned from Weston Street onto Manchester Road. What an unbelievable sight, thousands of people walking up Manchester Road to say their last farewell to Burnden Park. I joined the queue for
-
Date
Funeral family slam Overdale car chaos
A BEREAVED family feared they would have to abandon their funeral cars and carry their mother's coffin into Overdale Crematorium after parked vehicles blocked their way. The family feared the worst when their funeral cortege was stuck for nearly 20 minutes
-
Date
Can town logo be justified?
SIR: I can't believe what is happening in this 'Atogether better' town of ours. There have been stories in the BEN, of complaints from patients at our 'new' hospital, where waits of up to 10 hours are expected to be accepted as inevitable. There are residents
-
Date
Still looking for Lennie
SIR: Has anyone seen Lennie? Could I through your paper appeal to the people who took the garden gnomes from my garden during the last couple of months. "Lennie" was given to me 21 years ago by two of my dearest friends and is no ordinary garden ornament
-
Date
Cold comfort
A SEVERELY disabled Bolton grandmother asked for extra blankets to keep warm in hospital - and was given a pair of patterned curtains. It happened at Salford's Hope Hospital as 67-year-old Louise Morton was having one of her regular treatments for crippling
-
Date
Tribute to MP
SIR: This is a tribute to our out-going MP Mr David Young. He served the constituency of Bolton South East for 14 years and before that the former constituency of Bolton East. During those years I have contacted him on many occasions and never once did
-
Date
Not just looking backwards
SIR: I had already mapped out the scenario for Friday night's game. At the final whistle we'd all start to cry. Burnden Park full of Inconsolable lost souls reduced to nothing but tears. Yet In reality It was so very different. True, the eyes did well
-
Date
Frustrated Wigan kick their heels
WIGAN Warriors may be in need of a quick pick-me-up after last week's disappointing defeat by Salford Reds, but Wembley weekend leaves them kicking their heels for a fortnight. Coach Eric Hughes says the break has come at the wrong time for the Warriors
-
Date
Top team spirit
SIR: As a season ticket holder I attended the last ever league game to be played at Burnden Park on Friday evening, and what an emotionally charged evening it turned out to be! I started following the 'Whites' in the early 1940s when football was played
-
Date
The perfect gentlemen
SIR: As season ticket holders at Burnden Park we would like to express our sincere gratitude to all the staff for the pleasure my family and I have had during what must be one of the finest seasons ever. Having the pleasure of meeting several of the staff
-
Date
Top two face last game promotion drama
Leigh RMI 2, Radcliffe Boro 2 THE UniBond Division One championship and promotion issues will go to the last matches on Saturday after Leigh RMI and Radcliffe Boro shared the points at Hilton Park last night. It now means that Radcliffe still lead Leigh
-
Date
Cook vows to cut NHS red tape
LABOUR'S Robin Cook was in Bolton yesterday to cut a symbolic red tape in a bid to focus the election campaign on "NHS bureaucracy". The red ribbon was wrapped around boxes marked "invoices" as Labour tried to demonstrate their claim that NHS Trusts issued
-
Date
Bed-blocking not my fault says crossword Ken
PATIENTS and staff at Bury General Hospital had a larger than life visitor when Chancellor Kenneth Clarke called in. He chatted to staff, laughed and joked with patients - and even helped Mrs Margaret Davies, of Hillock Estate, Whitefield, with her crossword
-
Date
Family's gift of thanks for life of baby Lewis
A NORTH West specialist unit is set to receive a vote of thanks from a nine month old baby. Lewis Mitten was born 14 weeks early and his first five months of life were spent clinging to life in the Neonatal Unit at Salford's Hope Hospital. Today Lewis
-
Date
Wanderers deny Klinsmann link
WANDERERS and Reebok today laughed off speculation that Jurgen Klinsmann could be heading for Bolton in a spectatcular transfer coup. Recent rumour suggesting the German ace was a Wanderers target has been fuelled by the deal announced 11 days ago that
-
Date
Don't wait for autumn leavers
BTG - the Bolton Training Group - is staging a free breakfast seminar next Wednesday, May 7. It is aimed at employers considering taking on modern apprentices. "The message is that they should not wait until September," a spokesman said. "Employers should
-
Date
Promise kept for 45 years!
SICKLY David McCheyne started work at 15 after several years of treatment for a weak heart. His parents despaired of him finding employment because he had missed a great deal of schooling through illness. But the company secretary at the East Lancashire
-
Date
Testing time for taxis
SIR: I refer to the article about Bolton taxis. The testing of Bolton's taxi fleet a few years ago was done by a garage on Salop Street, then Bolton Council made the taxi owners go for their plating tests to Bolton Council's own maintenance workshops
-
Date
Your holiday memories
SIR: Is there a holiday resort which holds unique memories for you, and would you be happy to share those memories with up to nine million viewers? Holiday Memories, a new BBC-1 series is scheduled for Autumn. Write to Donna McLaughlin, at Holiday Memories
-
Date
Three killed in M-way horror smash
THREE young men died and a fourth was seriously injured when a stolen car being driven at high speed crashed on a motorway slip-road while being followed by police early today. The teenage driver and two passengers died instantly when their stolen Metro
-
Date
Sad to see them go
SIR: I have lived in North Wales for 25 years, but was born in Farnworth and as a 'Trotters' supporter, man and boy, I felt rather sad that yet another institution in my lifetime has disappeared. I supported them regularly, when not playing myself, standing
-
Date
Brewers plan new town centre pub
A MIDLANDS-based brewery has submitted plans for a new pub and restaurant on the site of the former Boars Head in Bolton town centre. The popular Boars Head in Churchgate was closed eight years ago along with the Gatehouse Cafe and the Chip Inn because
-
Date
Find different venues
SIR: Can anyone tell me why hundreds of our schoolchildren have to miss one days Education when their school is used as a polling station at Election time? I'm sure that, as only the space of a hall or classroom is required, then a different venue could
-
Date
Child Support Agency slammed by bereaved mum
A FURIOUS Bolton mother has slammed the Child Support Agency who requested details of her former fiance - who died two years ago from a brain haemorrhage. Miss Karen Spencer, aged 32, received a letter from the CSA last week concerning James Halligan,
-
Date
Those magic moments
SIR: In no particular order, here are some of the things that will stay in my mind forever: the wonderful party atmosphere, the flags, balloons, face paint and fancy dress, the applause for Charlton's cracking goal, the embankment overflowing with Wanderers
-
Date
We don't have to trust
SIR: Most of our leading politicians were either very young children or not even born when this nation went to war to protect not only Britain but also Europe from the enemy within out midst who was enslaving or killing everywhere they went. Now our leaders
-
Date
Chance to honour triumphant Shakers
THE promotion winning Shakers are set to take Bury town centre by storm next week with an open top bus tour. The bus, decked out in blue and white, will take the squad and club officials from Gigg Lane next Wednesday for a VIP reception at Bury Town Hall
-
Date
Where will it all end?
SIR: Since the Gas has gone private, I am concerned at the bullying tactics of some of the agents if people are getting into difficulties to pay their bills which have gone higher, especially for people with families. All they can say is have a pre-payment
-
Date
Music to be proud of
SIR: I would like to thank Mr R Wilding and the staff of the Music Department at Canon Slade School, together with the orchestra, singers, solo artists, the brass and show bands for a wonderful evening of first class music and singing at St Peter's Church
-
Date
£71m plan is on the road to success
MORE than 300 people have signed a petition backing Bolton Council's plans to build a new access road to the Lyon Industrial Estate in Kearsley. As revealed in the BEN earlier this month, the council plan an £11m injection from the Government's Single
-
Date
A matter of pride
SIR: Pride where has it gone, why did it go? Oh for the days when mother stoned the step, polished the window sill, and swept at the house front. Why has society turned so slovenly. In town people wilfully drop all kinds of litter. Where I live, children
-
Date
My memories aren't good
SIR: I would be interested to know whether I am the only inhabitant of this town who does not remember Bolton Royal Infirmary as some elysium. It appears from the volume of letters published in latter months that most people are grief stricken at its
-
Date
Tears in my eyes
SIR: How do I put into words the emotions and achievements of the amazing 'Superwhites' on Friday night? I got into the disabled area at around 6.40pm to savour the atmosphere of what was to be happiness/sadness/pleasure and pride. The whole evening was
-
Date
Hat-trick aces at the double
AFC Bolton under 11s A team completed a league and cup double winning away 9-0 at Farnworth Boys. That game also brought a double dose of hat-tricks as Chris Merritt and Tom Aspinall bagged three each with further strikes from Lee Hanson, Lee Stansfield
-
Date
Workman 'serious' following accident
A MAN working at a busy Bolton road junction suffered a suspected fractured neck when he was in an accident with a Ford Transit van. John Higgins, 57, of Hattersley, Cheshire had been working on Higher Bridge Street, close to its junction with Blackburn
-
Date
Poet's Corner
Hello my name is Gemma a new resident In St James Street. I'm a little Scottie puppy jet black From my head to my feet I was sitting in the kennels when My new mum and dad came by I said now don't they look nice I will try to catch their eye My mum came
-
Date
Poet lands book honour
BOLTON poet Christine Ormrod has won a commendation for outstanding achievement after her work was published in an anthology compiled by the International Library of Poetry. Christine, of Deane Church Lane, won the Editor's Choice Award, for her poem
-
Date
The international set
FROM Fiji to France, from Botswana to Barbados, a rich cultural melting pot of international expertise regularly sees 35 countries represented at meetings here in Bolton. The gatherings are social and their function recreational, for this is Bolton Institute's
-
Date
Tory Debby sees red over poster thieves
TRUE blue Tory Debby Mercer saw red when thieves made off with election posters from the family's front garden. But defiant Debby, 33, and 37-year-old husband Max were determined to get the message home and replaced the six-foot signs. First, a man was
-
Date
From the BEN files
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, April 30, 1972 THE 25 members of the first bare ballet to be staged in Australia arrived in Sydney today more worried about catching cold than attracting criticism. The male and female members of the Nederlands Dans
