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Jobless total falls
BOLTON'S unemployment total went down 260 in May from 6,274 to 6,014. The male figure was down from 5,072 to 4,880 and the corresponding female tally was 1,134 - down 68. In the Bolton and Bury travel to work area the May total of 9,728 was down by 504
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Police escort heralds baby's arrival
LITTLE Molly June Appleyard arrived into the world too fast for the rush hour traffic. She was set to put in an appearance at the road-side ... until the police stepped in to give her an escort to the hospital. Even with flashing blue lights and sirens
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Gulf War tents 'sold to scouts'
THE Ministry of Defence today sensationally admitted that tents and sleeping bags contaminated with the dangerous pesticides blamed for Gulf War Syndrome were sold to Scout troops. Although two Scoutmasters in the South have since been "quite ill" neither
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Tighten up on taste
SIR: I am asking MPs to tighten the taste and decency laws after a sex education programme "Love Bites" LWT/Granada was shown featuring teenagers acting out sex scenes. Christians would not be allowed to put a programme dealing with sex education on prime
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Two bridges too far
THE man leading the fight to stop a new industrial estate access road being built at Kearsley is pressing Bolton Council to reopen two disused bridges instead. Many local people are up in arms over Bolton Council's plans to create an industrial park on
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Charity needs your support
SIR: May I ask you to pass on our thanks to all the volunteers who braved quite adverse weather conditions last Saturday to assist with the Vision Aid Street Collection and to the members of the public for their generosity. Despite the weather a total
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Coins were not forged
SIR: I read with interest the article regarding Ronald Hulse's 'magnetic pennies'. A few years ago I quite by chance placed a magnet near some new copper coins and found them non magnetic. I don't know the exact year when non-magnetic true copper coins
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Counting the cost of ban
SIR: Regarding my letter which you printed in the issue of June 18, you misquoted the Government spending on the appeasement of the Gun Lobby as £130,000, this should have read £130,000,000. But since that letter was published I have had information given
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The road was put on hold
SIR: I am an objector to the A5225 and as a result have maintained a close interest in any activity concerning its progress. Newspaper articles referred to the resurrection of this road. They imply this was a recent development which is untrue. The road
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Primary pupils make the grade
GOVERNMENT inspectors have praised the standard of pupil behaviour at a Hindley primary school. A recent OFSTED inspection at Hindley Junior and Infant School revealed a good rate of pupil progress which result in levels of attainment in speaking, listening
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Hair today zapped tomorrow
By Angela Kelly, Features Editor WE'VE plucked, shaved, creamed, waxed, and zapped them with electrical current. But now, it is claimed, unwanted hair has met its greatest enemy - the laser. And embarrassed men and women around the country - some women
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Liam riding high after stolen bike is found
A YOUNG boy who was heartbroken when his motorbike was stolen is now jumping for joy. Liam Harris, aged five, can ride his Yamaha off-road motorcycle again after his dad, Michael, spotted it, purely by chance. Mr Harris, 35, took Liam out at the weekend
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Big two set for showdown
THE two clubs that have dominated the Bolton Golf Association championships recently resume combat in tonight's final. Dunscar's Gareth Hastie and Tim Philbin from Hindley Hall resume the rivalry in an intriguing showdown to what has been a high class
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Top posting for mailman
CREDIT Controller Colin Burns has taken over at the helm of the organisations which monitor the quality of local post and telecommunications services. Mr Burns, aged 33, replaces the recently-retired Ken Butterworth as chairman of the Bolton & District
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Another child hurt in wall fall
A YOUNG girl was hurt when a garden wall fell as she played on a Kearsley housing estate. The incident yesterday comes only six months after six-year-old Anthony Chambers was killed when a garden wall collapsed at the side of his council home in Breightmet
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England star's barnstormer!
A RAMSHACKLE barn on the edge of Bolton could soon be the luxury home of soccer star Gary Neville. Planning permission has been given for the conversion of Meadow Barn, off Bradshaw Road, Bradshaw into a house and for a tennis court to be built on the
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Nightclubs to open until 6am
CLUB-goers in Bolton will soon be able to dance the night away ... until 6am. Town centre nightclubs The Temple and Club Mondo in The Village complex on St George's Street have been granted an entertainments licence for Fridays and Saturdays which will
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Firemen step up OAP safety campaign
THE elderly are being targeted in a campaign to halt the rising toll of fire related injuries and deaths. Greater Manchester County Fire Service has launched the campaign following a marked increase in the number of fire deaths and injuries in the county
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Fear as bridge gets new life span
THE main road beneath the crumbling Darcy Lever railway viaduct is set to re-open this weekend. But local people who have campaigned for years for the disused structure to be pulled down now fear they could be stuck with it well into the millennium. British
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Harvey makes his mark
MARK Harvey will have to wait for his Championship chance with Lancashire despite a man of the match performance on his NatWest Trophy debut at Old Trafford yesterday. Harvey hit an impressive 86 from 90 balls as Lancashire crushed Berkshire by 169 runs
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900 miles on a bicycle made for two
BOLTON couple Brian and Barbara Thompson tackle their challenges in tandem. And wherever Brian goes, Barbara closely follows. The couple, from Lever Edge Lane, have just returned home after completing an epic 900 mile tandem ride between London and Edinburgh
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Parents turn kids truant for cheap hols
BOLTON headteachers are becoming concerned about parents taking their children out of school to go on holiday. In recent years more and more parents are grabbing the cheaper holidays during term-time. Bob Atkinson, headteacher at Sharples School, said
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This was a time to bend the rules
SIR: I refer to the article: Boy banned from exam over haircut (BEN, June 20). After reading your article I felt I had to write and say how stupid the school were over this incident. Teenagers have enough to think about at this time of year, I know I've
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Let's hear good news
SIR: I see (BEN, June 15) that Mr Gary Titley (MEP) says like many others that existing wartime landmines should be found and destroyed. Commendable, but when is he volunteering to help do it? In BEN (March 13, he was reported trying to soothe a Bolton
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Daily Poem
Hooray! Hooray, we've won at last, Labour finally has got in. It was a magnificent landslide, And what a magnificent win. Tories wiped out in Wales and Scotland, This news to me is glorious. As they are at last the vanquished, They'll say "This is no
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Thief was in queue before robbery
A THIEF who calmly waited his turn in a building society queue before handing over a type written demand for cash, escaped with £2,500 in a supermarket carrier bag. The raider actually queued for several minutes with other customers before robbing the
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Love springs eternal for poet Francis
ROMANTIC poet Francis Farnworth's aim in life is to "put down on paper the most beautiful love poem of all time". The 41-year-old writer has seen his work published in five anthologies and is now hoping to see his own book in print. Francis dedicates
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Reward for stolen jewellery
A REWARD of £8,000 is being offered for the return of two stolen cases of jewellery, together with the arrest and conviction of the thieves who took it. The robbery happened at 3.15pm on Wednesday, June 4, in the School Lane area of Walmersley, Bury.
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From the BEN files
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, June 24, 1972 A HIJACKER baled out of a seized Boeing 727 clutching 502,400 dollars (£193,200) ransom today and police believe he may have been smashed to death against the jet's fuselage. Some of the money and part
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The answer is 'No' from Beardsley
PETER Beardlsey has said 'no' to a move to Bolton Wanderers. The former England veteran has told Colin Todd that he wants to stay on Tyneside, where his family is settled and where he hopes to have at least another season with Newcastle. But the Wanderers
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Is Robbie the boy?
ROBBIE Elliott could be the 'secret' target Colin Todd has earmarked for a record-breaking transfer swoop. Wanderers are understood to have followed up an earlier inquiry for the former England U-21 star and sources in the North-east suggest a £2.5 million-plus
