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Buy-in firm thinking big
A HORWICH company plans major expansion after a take-over. Production Equipment Ltd - PEL - has been the subject of a management buy-in involving Muriel Downs, who has wide experience in manufacturing business. She holds non-executive directorships at
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Schools are top of the class - well, almost!
BOLTON and Bury schools have been given a good report in national performance tables published today. Bury has come out near the top of the class in two important categories of the Audit Commission charts. It was second of the 36 metropolitan authorities
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Gerry on comeback trail
GERRY Taggart returned to training today, proving that reports of his season having already ended were greatly exaggerated. "I've no idea where the suggestion came from that I was out for the season," the Wanderers centre-back said, referring to a recent
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Penpals in peril
SIR: I am writing regarding the article 'Dumped mail mountain riddle' you featured in the February 13 edition of the Bolton Evening News. For more than 10 years I have been writing to penpals worldwide. There have always been odd letters going astray.
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Ridiculous bus fares
SIR: As a regular user of buses, I've got to know what the fares are both single and return, or so I thought. I have paid £1.74 for a return ticket from Market Street, Farnworth, to Bradshawgate, or Great Moor Street, Bolton, and I was told by a driver
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Trialist Jose is an instant hit
West Brom Res 2, Bolton Wanderers Res 3 PORTUGUESE winger Jose Moreira grabbed the winner for Wanderers, who fielded four trialists and were down to 10 men for the last half hour at Halesowen last night. Moreira, who also laid on a goal for Lee Potter
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The 'mounties' get their van!
HORWICH has taken delivery of a new off-road police vehicle after winning its battle with the Police Authority. The authority had wanted to scrap the four-wheel-drive because of budget cuts. But Horwich police and local councillors persuaded it the vehicle
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Ops blow for 99
NINETY nine patients had their operations cancelled at the last minute at the Royal Bolton Hospital between April 1997 and January this year, figures reveal. The patients were either already in hospital waiting for the operation or had the surgery cancelled
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Beef on bone ban correct - MP
A BOLTON MP last night defended the Government's decision to ban beef on the bone. Dr Brian Iddon, Labour MP for Bolton South-east, is still a member of Bolton Council. And at last night's full council meeting, he praised the Government's attempt to win
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Visit is just the tonic . . .
JOHN Monks, General Secretary of the TUC, visited the Royal Bolton Hospital at the invitation of the Chairman of Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust, Mrs Barbara Peacock. Mr Monks met a number of staff and formally opened the new trade union offices provided by
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Power and the glory
WHAT a pity that our reborn affection for steam railway engines is not echoed locally for those mighty machines that made our mills so famous. The failure of the Northern Mill Engine Society to secure sufficient funding for their Steam Into Science museum
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Right route to tomorrow's world
HORSEPOWER could well be overtaken by pedal-power if Bolton Town Hall chiefs get their way. The strategy for all new local road schemes to be "cycle-friendly" before they are approved has to be seen as a step towards a healthier and much less polluted
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Look, it's Les's long-lost hunky son
CORONATION Street is set to get a new recruit in the form of former Bolton hunk Stephen Billington. Stephen will arrive on the famous Street in about six weeks time playing the long-lost son of wild Les Battersby. The 28-year-old, who originally hails
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Jazz salute at Bert's old stamping ground
JAZZMEN from the Greater Manchester area will gather at the British Aerospace Sports and Social Club, Lostock, on Friday, April 17, to honour their local mentor, Bert Knowles. Septuagenarian Bert, of Chorley Old Road, Bolton, the subject of a recent BEN
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Amazing decision
SIR: I find it amazing to read that Bolton Council have set aside three million pounds so that anyone working for the local authority, who is redundant, can be switched to other jobs without loss of pay. That three million pounds could have been used
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Flying chef Andy mashes 'no spuds' rumours!
A BOLTON RAF chef in Kuwait says he was astonished to discover he had made national news headlines after a fellow airman complained about the lack of chips on the service menu. But Flt Lt Andy Potts, aged 32, from Heaton, reckons the papers back home
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Tony's a winner
BURY are on a winner with Tony Rigby's return to form, according to team-mate Paul Butler. Revatalised Rigby is yet to be on the losing side since earning his first run in the side for two years. And the addition of defensive duties to his exciting array
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City ace's golf guide
MANCHESTER City captain Kit Symons performed the topping out ceremony at the new Marriott Hotel and Country Club on the site of Worsley Old Hall. He fixed a weather vane to the top of the building - a guide to golfers when the 18-hole championship course
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Just another exercise?
SIR: Bolton's planning "blueprint" for the 21st century (BEN: Saturday, February 28) has me thinking "Here we go again!". A review of where "new this" and "new that" should be: which land should be "green belt" and which "recreation"? My lip curls when
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FUSE heads north
BOLTON Institute Microelectronics Centre - agents for the European Commission's FUSE programme in the North of England - has been asked to extend its activities into Scotland and Northern Ireland. Richard Fairbank, director of the Bolton Centre, said:
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Cash handicap halts golf fun
A GOLFING enthusiast claims Bolton Council is denying "the more disadvantaged" members of the public the right to use their municipal golf course whenever they want to. The man, who does not want to be named, said he believed higher fees could force some
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Transplant snub girl boosted by you kindhearts
BOLTON residents are backing a campaign to save a teenage girl denied a heart and lung transplant because she suffers from Down's Syndrome. Townsfolk are busy fund-raising for Joanne Harris, aged 15, who needs £250,000 to pay for the life-saving transplant
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'Crazy professor' set to clean up!
MIKE Parkington is set to make a clean-sweep in Europe. And his company is looking to take the specialised world of road and pavement sweeping by storm. Yesterday his Pathfinder Cleaning Machines firm, based at the Moss Industrial Estate in Leigh, handed
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Surfing the net couldn't be easier
YOU' RE never too old or too young to get to grips with the Internet, say council chiefs in Bury. So if you think surfing is something you do at the sea-side and a web-site is something to do with spiders, then help is on the way with a new service by
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Betts lined up for shock return
DENIS Betts could make a shock appearance on the subs bench for Wigan Warriors' crunch Silk Cut Challenge Cup quarter-final clash with St Helens on Sunday. The Great Britain second-row forward underwent a major operation to reconstruct his shoulder after
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Bolton Gulf War victory
THE name of BOLTON will never again be used as a codeword for military operations against nations such as Iraq. The pledge has been given by Defence Secretary George Robertson after a public outcry highlighted in the BEN over the choice of "Operation
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Chance for offenders to carve out a career
PEOPLE sentenced to community service could find themselves on a new career path through a pioneering project in Farnworth and Little Hulton. The Little Hulton and Farnworth Partnership Single Regeneration Budget project has teamed up with the courts
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Hunt for tragic OAP family
POLICE are trying to trace the relatives of a Bolton pensioner found dead at his home. Ronald Peter Williams, aged 66, was discovered slumped in the bedroom of his home in Rock Fold, Bromley Cross, on Tuesday. A doctor was called but Mr Williams was already
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Former police chief's two wheel send-off
A RETIRED former police motorcyclist who patrolled the streets of Bolton for many years was given a two-wheeled "send off" at his funeral. Former police inspector John Hamer's funeral cortege was led by officers from a police motorcycle social club and
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The Daily Poem
LIFETIME OF LOVE Magical moments, A lifetime of love. Caring and sharing, Problems resolved. Sad times and bad times, Worked through together. Helping each other, To feel so much better. Partners in life, Having fun together. Good times the best times
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Brian takes his bow from the council
LABOUR MP Brian Iddon last night made his final appearance as a Bolton councillor. He has still been a council member even though he was elected MP for Bolton South-east in May. With a huge Labour majority on the council, council colleagues decided not
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Military manoeuvre
AFTER famous British military actions carrying such names as Battleaxe and Broadsword, would Operation Bolton really have been such a misguided title for a possible military attack on Saddam Hussein's evil regime in Iraq? Many townsfolk recall only too
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400 council homes without tenants
EMPTY council homes are costing almost £15,000 a week in lost rent, it was revealed last night. Bolton has 400 council properties which are not let out to tenants. It was also revealed that it costs an average of £720 to repair a property every time it
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Put the UK first
SIR: The Chinese Government is currently aiming to increase economic growth by eight per cent. This will mean that even more Chinese goods will be available for export. The strength of sterling inevitably means that such Chinese goods will flood Britain
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Town hall opens up 'Ayes' to blind voters
TOWN hall chiefs are set to make voting easier for people who have sight problems. Large posters will be displayed at polling stations so that they can note the position of the person they want to vote for on the ballot paper. The council will also be
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Train travellers are blitzed again
ANGRY commuters have again been hit by a police blitz on parking around Lostock Station. Train users with cars parked on Regent Road had warning notices stuck to their windscreens on Tuesday night. But commuters say the small car park at the station is
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Where has all the council cash gone?
COUNCIL chiefs have been urged to reveal the full cost to the public purse of early retirements. Tory leader Cllr Norman Critchley is calling for a report on how much the council has paid out for voluntary early retirements and ill health retirements
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Holiday bug pair in mass protest
A WESTHOUGHTON couple whose Caribbean holiday was ruined by illness have joined 200 families in a storm of protest at holiday giant Airtours. Tourists staying at the Marena Beach Hotel in the Dominican Republic have complained that poor hygiene standards
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Headmasters rap 'silent' witnesses
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, March 12, 1973 VANDALS caused damage costing hundreds of pounds at Bolton schools during the weekend. And there was a rap for the 'silent' public from the headmasters of two of the schools involved. At Top-o'th-Brow
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REVIEW: Neville's Island, Phoenix Theatre Company, Chorley Old Road, United Reformed Church Hall. Ru
FOR a play purporting to be a comedy, Neville's Island packs a pretty powerful punch. There are plenty of laughs particularly in the first half but darker doings are afoot after the interval. Four disparate business men are marooned on an island in the
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Helpers needed
SIR: Can any of your readers please spare a week to help people with physical disabilities and their carers enjoy a much needed break? I write on behalf of Sandpipers in Southport, Merseyside, which urgently needs more residential volunteers during April
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Gateway to Bolton? It's a load of rubbish!
THE "Gateway to Bolton" is lined with litter according to a businessman who has called on the Council to clean up its act. John Anderton, a director of Merlin Engineering Co, has written to the Council's Chief Executive, Bernard Knight, complaining about
