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Catering students serve up award winning recipes
BOLTON College catering students struck gold at a prestigious regional competition, returning with their best ever haul of medals. The students entered eight classes at the annual Salon Culinaire competition at Huddersfield College. They won five golds
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Giggsy in £15m transfer
MAN-SION Utd . . . £15m soccer star Ryan Giggs looks set for a transfer to Chorley. The Old Trafford midfielder is understood to have bought a 60-year-old, £500,000, five bedroomed mansion in Adlington. Giggs, aged 23, seems keen on a move to Chorley
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Crash driver cheats death
A MAN is lucky to be alive today after his car was wrecked in a head-on crash with a bus. John Knott, aged 27, of Knott Lane, Doffcocker suffered serious leg injuries in the collision on Chorley Old Road near the junction with Doffcocker Lane yesterday
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Residents hit out at golf course extension plans
PLANS to extend a golf course could lead to the creation of a new housing estate at their back door, residents fear. Harwood householders are angered by plans to extend Breightmet golf course from nine holes to eighteen. Land belonging to the council
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Dogs rescued from 'prison'
THE future is looking brighter for eight greyhounds which were rescued from their filthy and cramped 'prison' at Westhoughton. The greyhounds - two adults and six pups - - were being kept in "appalling" conditions in a shed and locked enclosure and an
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Election candidate in 'bomb' scare
A CONTROLLED explosion was carried out on a suspect device outside the business of Chorley's Referendum Party candidate at the General Election. A bomb disposal unit was called in from Liverpool when the pipe-shaped device was found under a van next to
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£10m jobs boom
DEVELOPERS have served up a £10 million plan for a tennis and fitness centre on the site of the former Bolton Royal Infirmary. And the scheme could create 200 permanent and 400 temporary jobs. Oakland House Developments of Manchester have submitted plans
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OBE for caring cancer surgeon
A CARING cancer surgeon from Chorley has received royal recognition for his charity work. Reginald Kingston of Sutton Lane, Adlington, was awarded the OBE in the Queen's birthday honours list. He was told last month that his endeavours for the Macmillan
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People are so kind
SIR: Human kindness does exist in large doses, as BEN editor Mark Rossiter pointed out. A very independent lady who will be 90 in four weeks' time agrees. One of her many thanks goes to our GM Buses drivers who, over many years in Horwich to Bolton, have
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Drugs, drink, mean danger in the park
WORRIED mums are demanding action to prevent their children being injured by the jetsam of druggies and drinkers. People in Armstrong Street, Horwich, want police to keep an extra eye on their local play-area to prevent teenage drug-users from gathering
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Asda fight goes on
CLAYTON Green residents have called in the Ombudsman in a desperate bid to overturn plans to relocate a supermarket nearer to their houses. The council watchdog was due to meet a committee of homeowners yesterday (Wednesday) to discuss Asda's redevelopment
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Should state support be necessary?
SIR: Your story "Red tape keeps couple poles apart", interested me in the fact that this gentleman who in a sense, I feel sorry for, stated that the couple can only live together if the state supports his wife. This country is already overburdened with
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Denis launches his own French resistance!
A RETIRED Bolton man jumped from a moving Paris underground train and fell fighting down a flight of steps to collar a thief who had stolen his wallet. Now Denis Ince, who emerged with a bloody nose, cut leg and severely bruised arm, is warning tourists
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They spoil a beauty spot
SIR: I refer to the letter, Thursday June 5, 'Mums are blue at the lagoon'. Pleasure spots exist and should be treated as such, not abused. The Blue Lagoon, used to feed a local mill, is privately owned as well as a natural beauty spot, but is regularly
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Pining puppy becomes a bow w-ow
A PINING puppy gave a family a real scare when he became helplessly trapped in a bike chain and had to be released by firemen. Harry, a 12-week-old collie cross, was painfully stuck in the chain for about two hours. Owners, Phillip and Mary Ingram, of
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Accent on speaking
SIR: Have you suffered discrimination because you have a strong accent? Perhaps you've been turned down when applying for a job or for promotion? Do people react to the way you speak - and do you think they feel prejudice towards you because of it? Have
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No Lord's trip for Chorley
ONCE again the weather had the final say in this rain-blighted season as Chorley and Kendal had to settle for two points apiece from Saturday's washed out league clash at Windsor Park. The rain began to fall just as the Kendal innings closed on 200-8
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Leave the land for farming
SIR: I read in the Bolton Evening News about Breightmet Golf Club wanting to extend and take land off the farmers, which a lot of people do not agree with. The Nab Gate Farm has to have grazing and agricultural land. It held the Sheepdog Trials, Show
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Councillors set for pay increase
CHORLEY'S councillors were set to give themselves a pay rise this week. Their allowances for attending meetings and carrying out other duties were reviewed by the borough's management and finance committee on Tuesday evening. It considered three options
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REVIEW: Cosi fan tutte. Opera North. Palace Theatre, Manchester. Plays again on Friday.
WE were warned before the curtain rose of sickness in the cast which had claimed one principal character and left another two below par. Yet over the next three hours Opera North, which is fast gaining a reputation as one of the country's leading operatic
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New Mayor misses his first meeting
THE Mayor of Bolton, Cllr Peter Birch, pictured right, missed his first meeting "in the chair " at Bolton Council last night. Diabetic Cllr Birch is recovering at home after a spell in the Royal Bolton Hospital for tests over the weekend. Deputy Mayor
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REVIEW: Last Night of the Proms. Bolton Junior Youth Orchestra. The Albert Halls, Bolton
THE concert may have been called the Last Night of the Proms, but members of Bolton Junior Youth Orchestra and the audience knew it was really "Liz's night". For Elizabeth Forrest was conducting her last official concert with the BJYO. It was an emotional
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MP calls for action over egg production
THE government has been urged to seek a European wide ban on battery hens. Leigh Labour MP Lawrence Cunliffe is appalled that they still produce the vast majority of eggs. At Westminster, he has expressed concern that the birds are kept in cages so small
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Golden shot Tim is just champion
GREAT expectations on the young shoulders of Gareth Hastie proved too much as his hopes of the BGA Championship were swept away at a rain soaked Dunscar last night. On his home course Hastie, beaten in last year's final, was favourite to go one better
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Budget forum
A SPECIAL breakfast meeting in the town hall will help Bolton's business community get to grips with next week's Budget. Bolton Bury Training and Enterprise Council is organising the free event in the Festival Hall at 8am on Thursday, July 3. It will
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Firm welcomes Eastern partners
RADCLIFFE-based Fluidair is consolidating its already-buoyant foothold in the Far East for its range of compressors. And recently the thriving company welcomed two Malaysian businessmen who have forged a productive partnership with their English counterparts
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Heated debate breaks Eric's vow of silence
SUBSTITUTE Mayor Cllr Eric Johnson was accused of foul play for an outburst during last night's Bolton Council meeting. The Mayor is not allowed to join in political debates during his year in office. But Labour Cllr Johnson caused uproar for defending
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Saved! Doomed club members fight back
AN historic Bolton ex-services club which appeared doomed to closure has been saved. Cllr Martin McLoughlin has stepped in to become chairman and, with a new committee, is determined to keep the United Service Veterans' Association club open. The club
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Election candidate in 'bomb' scare
A CONTROLLED explosion was carried out on a suspect device outside the business of Chorley's Referendum Party candidate at the General Election. A bomb disposal unit was called in from Liverpool when the pipe-shaped device was found under a van next to
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It should stay meadow land
SIR: I was interested in reading in the BEN recently about the plan to extend the Breightmet Golf Club. If allowed, the extension would leave the only working farm in the area as a smallholding. It is now the only working farm in this area. The land to
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Householders left high and dry
HUNDREDS of residents in the Deane area were left without water for several hours yesterday. For years the people in the area have been complaining about discoloured tap water. But now they claim that efforts by North West Water to improve the situation
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Lottery cash plans sunk
AMBITIOUS plans to build a visitor centre at Rivington have been scrapped after the scheme missed out on lottery funding. But North West Water bosses are determined that other proposals for the beauty spot will not be shelved. The decision by Millennium
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Evil sex beast on the loose
AN EVIL sex fiend is still at large after raping an 18-year-old woman in Astley Park. The teenager suffered her terrifying ordeal at about 10.50pm on Saturday as she walked towards Chorley to meet friends after finishing work. Police say the attacker
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Residents say tip up or else
COMPENSATION has been demanded for affected residents and businesses following a horror fly plague at the Ulnes Walton tip. Homes and firms in Croston and surrounding villages were hit by hundreds of thousands of flies last month. Senior Chorley councillors
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Hall's bad break leaves Wigan reeling
WELSH international Martin Hall looks set to miss the start of Wigan's second phase of the Visa World Club Championship next month. The 28-year-old hooker needs surgery to correct a broken thumb which he suffered in Wigan's final defeat Down Under at
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This verse was a gem
SIR: My last letter complained of the change in format of this, the 'Your Views' page. Despite the fact that letters in support of my view in this matter doubled those against and, despite the fact that the BEN is constantly telling us this is "our page
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Paul deserves his success
SIR: M Howarth's spiteful diatribe against magician Paul Daniels, who has expressed concerns about increased taxation under Labour is totally undeserved (Your views, June 21). Paul started at the very bottom, playing to notoriously hard-bitten audiences
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Daily poem
Body pierced, and tooth of gold, Ragged shorts, with tattoos bold. Bald as a coot, and loudly whistling, Behind their curtains, neighbours bristling. How he makes her senses tingle. Glad she feels that she is single. Though they think him very shady,
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MPs urged to back job fight
BOLTON Council is calling on the town's MPs to join the fight to save 400 Royal Mail jobs. The posts will go in Bolton and Liverpool if plans go ahead to close postal distribution centres. Royal Mail wants to shut Bolton's depots at Wingates and Lostock
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It's bike to the future!
BOLTON Council is pulling out all the stops to encourage people to abandon their cars and use bicycles. New cycle routes through the Croal Irwell Valley from Clifton Country Park park in Salford to Longsight Park in Harwood were opened with a Bike 'n'
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From the BEN files
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, June 26, 1972 AIRLINES have been warned to tell women flying to Uganda and Malawi that they will be subject to arrest and detention if they break new decrees about mini skirts and hot pants. The decrees state that mini
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Waiting game for Wanderers
IT was all quiet on the transfer front today as Wanderers and Newcastle United remained tight-lipped on the Robbie Elliott "deal". The Magpies favourite is understood to be the man Colin Todd was hoping to add to his Premiership squad but officials of
