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Old boys and girls meet again
MORE than 50 ex-pupils of pre-war Farnworth Grammar School swapped memories at a nostalgic reunion. Former Head Boy Fred Liston said he was bowled over by the response after he appealed through the columns of the BEN. An amazing 50 men and women, all
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Family reunion
SIR: You were kind enough to publish a letter in "In Touch" concerning a request for information from a Forrest Carroll in Lexington, Kentucky. Four of the grandchildren have been in touch and Forrest is coming to meet them in April. To show how small
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We're not plebs
SIR: I refer to the article "You're a bunch of plebs" (BEN, February 26).Mr Riley should not label all Westhoughton folk as a bunch of 'plebs'. I quite like the statue and would be most upset if it were moved. The Ditchfield Gardens bring back many a
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Report drivers
SIR: I feel I must reply to 'Often terrified user', Tuesday, February, 25, another one who knocks taxi and private hire drivers, but hasn't the guts to sign his or her name. I have been a private hire driver since 1986 and am not afraid to give my name
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Bolton man defied media tycoon edict
THE man who defied media tycoon Rupert Murdoch over his instructions to ditch the publication of a book by former Hong Kong Governor, Chris Patten, was born in Bolton. Stuart Proffitt threw the literary world into turmoil when he left Harper Collins,
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Trevor OKs urban village
TREVOR Roberts, the Bolton man who is president of the Royal Town Planning Institute, has given his backing to plans to create an "urban village" on 650 acres of derelict Royal Ordnance land in Chorley. Mr Roberts toured the site with Royal Ordnance property
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Brotherly love for little Tom
ANOTHER Bolton youngster has agreed to become a bone marrow donor - to save his five-year-old brother. Eighteen-year-old Lee Molyneux's bone marrow will be transplanted into ailing younger brother Tom, who is battling against two killer diseases including
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I won't give up the chase for signings says Todd
COLIN Todd insisted today that he will not give up in his efforts to strengthen his relegation-haunted squad. The Wanderers boss has been continually frustrated in bids to sign a striker and a right-sided midfield player. But he stressed: "I haven't given
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When a teabag can be a sleeping bag!
RESTLESS sleepers at a Bolton hotel will be in for a sound night's kip - thanks to a herbal cuppa! Managers at the town's Forte Posthouse hotel have taken on board findings in a new report on insomnia which found that herbal concoctions can help people
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Where's Brian?
SIR: I have tried for some time now to get in touch with a friend I lost touch with 30 years ago. His name is Brian Mills and he loved in Sunlight Road and later Tudor Avenue, Bolton. He went to Hayward School and had a sister called Jean. I would be
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Relatives sought
SIR: I, Mrs Kathleen Dreyfus, nee Shipperbottom, would like to trace any living relatives of my father - John Robert Shipperbottom, born on May 25 1901, of John Robert Shipperbottom and Rose Ann Shipperbottom, nee McCarthy. He had two sisters, one Rose
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Patients deprived
SIR: May the staff and the patients of G3 Ward, Royal Bolton Hospital express, through your letters page, our absolute disbelief, disgust and dismay, when we found our CD player and speakers stolen from the ward day room over the weekend of February 14
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Bowling club told to jack it in
AN historic bowling club has been kicked out of its 110-year-old home without consultation by pub bosses, according to members. The Ridgway Arms Private Bowling Club has been based on the green at the rear of the Blackrod pub since 1887. But now club
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From the BEN files
THE controversial sex film 'Last Tango in Paris' was given the go-ahead for a London showing today, when Greater London Council refused to ban it. But the council decided to call for a national inquiry into censorship. The council said that if control
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Daily poem
If I could be born again, from me you'd hear this fervent plea, Don't make me reside in Westhoughton, make it Atherton or Leigh. Now if you'd like to know why I'm making all this fuss, It's because those residents are fortunate when they need a bus. Our
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Chaos in the rain
HEAVY rain caused flooding and a spate of road accidents across the region last night. Fire crews used special pumping equipment at the moorland children's home, Crowthorne School, yesterday tea-time. The basement of the school became badly flooded forcing
