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Natural born fighter
A YOUNG dad stricken by a deadly brain tumour is defying doctors by staying alive using alternative medicine. Mark Gowenlock, aged 27, was told he had just six months to live after three operations, chemotherapy and radiotherapy failed to remove the growth
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Todd suggests plan to end club v country row
COLIN Todd has called for a rethink on international schedules that prevent players preparing for important club games. Frustrated by the loss of four of his squad in the build-up to today's vital survival fixture, the Wanderers boss wants national organisations
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Cameras increase as police become fewer
SIR: I have noticed a marked reduction in the number of police on the streets. At the same time the number of camera signs have increased. The two are linked. No human agency would be daft enough to erect signs on Scout Road and Armadale Road in Ladybridge
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We're not the same
SIR: I refer to the feature: School ski trip insurance alert (BEN, March 21). Either the writer, Tony Williamson, or the paper has a basic misunderstanding of travel and the difference between travel agents and tour operators. In his article, rightly
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Where were you when Bolton won the cup?
Here at the Bolton Evening News we are compiling a supplement remembering that great day when Bolton Wanderers beat Manchester United to win the FA Cup in May 1958. Have you any memories of that great afternoon? Were you at the match? Or perhaps you were
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Where were you when Bolton won the cup?
Here at the Bolton Evening News we are compiling a supplement remembering that great day when Bolton Wanderers beat Manchester United to win the FA Cup in May 1958. Have you any memories of that great afternoon? Were you at the match? Or perhaps you were
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Updated news will appear later
Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.
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Monie's hooray for Henry!
EXPECT Henry Paul to stamp his authority on tomorrow's televised semi-final showdown at Huddersfield. That is the warning from Wigan Warriors coach John Monie prior to the Silk Cut Challenge Cup clash. The talented Kiwi had an 'off-day' by his own high
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Rubber stamp?
SIR: Mr Richard Grundy has my sympathy in his suffering a result of, he claims, incorrect siting of new property and the light being blocked at his home in Little Lever.(BEN, March 13). If this building had been monitored and Mr Grundy's complaints heeded
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999 lessons for Bolton's bar staff
PUB and club staff in Bolton will be given specialist emergency first aid training in a bid to cope with life-threatening booze and drug cocktails. The new expert training has been set up in direct response to the horrifying incident where seven people
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From the BEN files
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, March 28, 1973 THE price of bread has been cut by 3p - from 10p to 7p - by Bolton and Wigan Co-operative Society. The news has shaken the entire bread-making industry, which has just been refused a price increase by
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Spring again
It's Spring once more, I step out of the door And head for the sun-drenched hills. The frost is still down, all over my home town, Now void of smoky factories and cotton mills. Minuscule droplets of dew cling onto my shoes, They sparkle like diamonds
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A mural reminder of you, Sir
A BOLTON headteacher's image will be forever etched in the memory of his staff and pupils - even when he retires in a few months. For Jeff Mills, headteacher of Rivington and Blackrod High School, has announced his retirement this August. But the school
