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Top class advice for local showmen
EXHIBITORS were given practical advice when they attended a workshop in connection with this year's Bolton Bury Business Show. The eagerly-awaited event will be in the EXCEL Centre at Bolton College on October 22 and 23. All 67 stands have been sold out
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Club has law on its side!
A BOLTON seminar on charity law will be a money-raiser as well. Local solicitors Fieldings Porter are holding the event at the Bolton Moat House on Thursday, July 17. It will be chaired by Lord Taylor of Blackburn, who is deputy speaker of the House of
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Tricked householders 'at risk of prosecution'
BOLTON householders are being warned to beware of workmen posing as council workers turning up at their homes and offering to drop kerbs for them. Two gangs have been knocking on doors in Farnworth and Horwich for the past two weeks offering to perform
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New call for total ban on alcopops
A NEW call has been made to ban the sale of alcopops following the death of a teenager killed by a train in Southport and a Bolton youth who torched a local secondary school after drinking them. The Greater Manchester and Lancashire Regional Council on
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Mac puts champs back on the up
EWAN McCray put Golborne back in Association title contention with an outstanding bowling performance yesterday. The talented all-rounder ended last year's champions' recent famine of points by collecting eight wickets for 38 runs in his side's 81 run
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Pay packet poverty
CAMPAIGNERS for the unemployed have called on the Government to speed up plans for a national minimum wage, after claims that some Bolton area employers are offering "poverty pay". Salford TUC Centre for the Unemployed found one of the jobs advertised
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Saddle be the day!
A BOLTON schoolgirl has been chosen to ride her Dartmoor pony in The Royal Pageant of the Horse event which will celebrate the Golden Wedding Anniversary of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. Lucinda Craven, of Church Street, Ainsworth, will ride 10
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Steven knew the rules
SIR: I reply to the letter from Jean Isherwood (BEN, June 25). For Mrs Isherwood to say the school is stupid, and have denied Steven Moores a chance is rubbish. If Steven is sitting his GCSE exams he must have been at Thornleigh for at least five years
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Rail drama aims to save kids from horror deaths
AN innovative play will be staged in Bolton this week to more than 1,000 schoolchildren in a bid to put them on the right track . . . The 1,200 youngsters will be shown a new Railtrack play entitled 'I Dare You' in which the issue of railway crime is
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Compassion was needed
SIR: I refer to the story of Bolton magistrates wanting to have a dog put down for biting another dog, accidentally I understand .It amazes me how they come to this result when I have just read in the paper of a so called human being biting a man's nose
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Job staff say sorry over cry baby row
A MOTHER who was asked to remove her crying baby from Bolton's employment services offices because he was disturbing staff hopes to highlight the problems of mothers returning to work. Susan Morris, of Hulton Lane, Bolton, lodged an official complaint
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They rushed to help
SIR: I refer to Your views, (June 23), headed "Children to the rescue". The children involved in helping this lady who slipped and fell were Debbie Barlow, Donna Strickland and Caroline Livesey who all attend Smithills School. This is not the first time
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Disney here we come!
CHILDREN and staff from a Kearsley primary school are looking forward to joining Mickey Mouse and friends at Disneyland, Paris after winning a school dinners healthy eating competition. Last month, Kearsley West County Primary, along with other schools
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Backing for this school
SIR: I must write and defend Thornleigh Salesian College. I have four children who went to this school, they are all now in good jobs. I did not agree to all the discipline. My daughter coloured her hair a bit lighter on the last week that she was there
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Rules must be heeded
SIR: I refer to the article and letter about the boy banned from exam over his haircut". I fully agree with the statement "Teenagers have enough problems this time of year", but these problems will not stop in the teenage years if these young people are
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Warriors wonder puts the Eagles to flight
Wigan Warriors 58, Sheffield Eagles 2 ANY lingering side-effects of Wigan's Australian voyage were quickly cast aside as they tore the Eagles apart yesterday. The Warriors played exhibition rugby against a very disappointing Yorkshire outfit, unrecognisable
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MP spotlights plight of the low paid
ONE in five workers in Bolton West earn less than £4 an hour, according to Commons figures. Treasury officials released the figures to MP Ruth Kelly when she tabled a question to Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown. The MP claims the figures show
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Beware of the holiday sharks, warns MP
HOLIDAYMAKERS are being warned to beware of unscrupulous time-share sharks. Bolton MP Ruth Kelly believes the touts will be out in force this summer ready to snare visitors who have banked building society windfalls. Now she is urging those going abroad
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Bike-snatch cash rescue
KINDHEARTED customers have clubbed together to help replace a BEN paper boy's bicycle, which was stolen as he started his round. The thieves snatched Adam Boardman's bike as he nipped into the newsagent's to pick up his loaded bag. Ironically, it was
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Developers want to build on new school site
MOVES have been made to protect a new school site in Horwich from housing. Developers William Hargreaves want to build 11 houses and 20 bungalows on land off Greenstone Avenue, Horwich. But it includes part of a site which has been set aside for a replacement
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Daily poem
No ball had been kicked, it was Port Vale to play, When we realised that Sasa was on his way, But Frandsen, Johansone, Tommo, and Scott, Were the creative force giving the early top spot It was Keith, Chris and Gerry, the backbone of the team, Who sweat
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Inspectors praise 'happy' school
BOLTON'S Gilnow Primary School has been praised by inspectors for providing children with a "secure, happy" environment. Attainment levels are described as satisfactory and the inspectors from OFSTED - the Office for Standards in Education - say that
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Rescue heroes issue challenge to schools
BOLTON Mountain Rescue team will celebrate its 30th anniversary next year. To promote the team's "birthday" a schools' competition is to be organised in which youngsters will be encouraged to design a special logo to mark the year. The logo will be used
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Shakers shrug off link with Burnley
BURY chairman Terry Robinson today responded to increasing speculation linking Stan Ternent with the vacant manager's job at Burnley. Gigg Lane boss Ternent is 4-1 third favourite with the bookies to take over the Turf Moor club which is round the corner
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Todd closes in on Elliott
COLIN Todd was hoping to clinch a Wanderers record transfer deal for Newcastle's Robbie Elliott. The Bolton boss was in negotiations with St James' Park officials today about a £2.5m deal that would make Elliott the most expensive signing in Wanderers
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Merger builds on success
BOLTON-based Moorside Housing Association has merged with the Portland Housing Association of Salford and become a member of the regional Portico Housing Group. Membership will strengthen Moorside's Bolton base. It will manage more than 1,000 homes in
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Help on way for disabled Romanian orphan
AN appeal is being launched to help a disabled Romanian girl. Madalina Zapodeanu came to Bolton for medical tests and returned to her orphanage earlier this month. But organisers of the "Good News for Romania" charity Kath and David Richardson hope now
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Armed raid terror
TWO masked raiders brandishing a handgun and a knife threatened terrified staff and customers at a Bolton betting shop before stealing up to £4,000. The raiders - who threatened to kill anyone who got in their way - are believed to have been responsible
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Lancashire title hopes dashed
LANCASHIRE have lost control of the Sunday League title race - and Mike Atherton admitted they have only themselves to blame. Yesterday's crushing 114-run defeat at Worcester cost Lancashire top spot to Essex, who moved two points clear with a dramatic
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It's all White on the night
KEARSLEY pulled off a sensational last ball win over championship challenging Westhoughton - with just a little help from David White. The all-rounder produced an almost perfect performance in a match that at one stage never looked as though it would
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Andy snaps up top prize!
BOLTON Evening News photographer Andy Lambert has won the prestigious North West Photographer of the Year title at a top newspaper awards ceremony. The 34-year-old lensman beat photographers from across the region to scoop the first prize and the coveted
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First innings deficit is costly for Bolton
ANYONE looking out of the windo would have assumed, not unnaturally, that there was no possibility of the senior inter league match being played at Darcy Lever. The rain was torrential but fortunately it stopped and on inspection the pitch was perfectly
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Leigh late slip is so costly
Batley Bulldogs 20, Leigh Centurions 18 LEIGH were just one tackle away from earning the point that would have given them a clear run for the promotion finishing line. Locked at 18-18 with seconds left on the clock, they merely had to feed a scrum, take
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Did you see the light?
SIR: I would dearly love to know if any of your readers saw a very bright light over Rivington on Wednesday, June 18. When looking through the kitchen window at around 11.45pm, I saw a very bright object which seemed to be hanging in the sky over the
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Is it still a town team?
SIR: I am a long-time follower of Bolton Wanderers going back to the 1930s, both home and away, but now, through the media TV etc, I feel now that we no longer have a football team that represents the town of Bolton. Everything has now been disposed of
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It's time you turned your attention to Horwich
SIR: This is a copy of a letter I've sent to the Head of Bolton Council. "Please can you tell me when you are going to stop robbing the people of Horwich and start giving us something back. " I've been reading the BEN over the last few months and all
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Policeman saves school
A PASSING police patrol saved a school from burning down after a milk crate was pushed up against a door and set alight. The vandals started the fire outside Wolfenden Primary School, Halliwell but the police alert saved the building from serious damage
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End of line for dancers
FURIOUS line dancers have been given the boot from a school - because they are ruining the floor! More than 50 country music dancers used the sports hall at Edgworth Primary School. Dance teacher Dorothy Ilaria said: "We were apparently taking the shine
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REVIEW: Summer Showcase. Wingates Brass Band
Jarvis Georgian House Hotel, Blackrod WINGATES recently regained a place among the Top Ten of British brass bands, and last night, on home ground for the first time under their new conductor, Michael Fowles, they showed that rating is well deserved. With
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Primary school gets top marks
A SHARPLES primary school has been given a good report by Government inspectors. A team from OFSTED-the Office For Standards in Education-found High Lawn County Primary School to be "a good school with many strengths". Recent national tests show that
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From the BEN files
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, June 30, 1972 MORE than 2,000 holidaymakers, including dozens from the Bolton area, had a miraculous escape when a jet plane plunged into Pontin's holiday camp at Blackpool. They were sitting down to their evening meal
