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Campaigner urges town to ditch new Lolita
A CONTROVERSIAL film based on the child sex novel Lolita could be banned from Bolton cinemas. Trading Standards chief Andrew Fisher says the film, passed uncut by the chief censor and granted an 18 certificate for viewing in cinemas nationwide, can be
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Steven rewards dog attack bravery boy
A MENTALLY handicapped Bolton man has sent a special reward to the schoolboy who fended off two savage dogs. Steven Heveran, 37, has severe learning problems so his adoptive mum, Elsie, reads BEN articles to her son every night. And Elsie says her son
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Don't give up on us
SIR: Yes we do need a Town Council, we need our independence. As a local councillor and Town Mayor I have to say to Mr Thorne don't give up on your local councillors. We do a lot of good for Westhoughton and its people, of which the majority don't get
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You beautiful dolls!
A UNIQUE toy library faces the chop unless vital cash can be found. The Bolton Toy Library was set up in 1981 to provide toys for children to play with in some of the most deprived areas of the borough. Since then the library has gone from strength to
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Magic Monie conjures up Wembley trick
LONDON BRONCOS 8 WIGAN WARRIORS 38: JOHN Monie's magic touch has done the trick again for Wigan. The little Aussie has had only a few months to prepare the Warriors for the new season but already they are back walking in a Wembley wonderland. Wigan have
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Fury as golf course
A CONTROVERSIAL plan for a nine-hole golf course in Radcliffe has been given the go-ahead by town planners. The news comes as a blow to local residents, who launched a campaign to block the application to restore the Tower Farm landfill site at Sandford
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Blake key to hat-trick bid
GOAL star Alan Thompson is keeping his fingers crossed that Nathan Blake will be back to lead the Reebok hat-trick bid against Arsenal tomorrow night. The Geordie midfield ace scored both goals as Wanderers produced a second successive survival special
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Unlucky Colls
ATHERTON COLLS 0 - BURSCOUGH 1: "That's the best we've played all season," commented ATHERTON COLLS manager Tommy Harrison, after his side's 1-0 home defeat, by one of the top outfits in the NWCL Division 1, Burscough. "Against the better teams we have
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RMI battle back to salvage point
FOR the second time in a week Leigh RMI dropped two valuable home points in the 2-2 draw with Runcorn. But, unlike last week when they threw away a two-goal lead against Altrincham, they had to come from being two goals behind to earn a point against
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Car park plans back on track?
PLANS to extend the car park at Lostock station could soon be back on track. As reported in the BEN, rail chiefs have approved plans to auction off land earmarked for the long-awaited overspill car park at Lostock station. Local residents and commuters
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Make your stand
THE famous book Lolita has been shocking people for the last couple of decades. Now it has been made into a new film, and author Nabokov's tale of child sex is being reintroduced to a new generation, with greater emphasis on the sexuality of the teenage
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Wanderers 2
Leicester City 0 ACTION TIME-TABLE 6 mins - Heskey 'goal' disallowed for foul on Bergsson. 11 mins - Holdsworth holds off Prior but shoots wide after Taylor lay-off. 21 mins - Phillips tests Keller with a well-struck right-footer. 27 mins - Bergsson sent
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£1.8m boost for jobs blackspots
BOLTON'S homeless and unemployed will benefit from huge Government grants being announced today. Jobless residents in Tonge and Burnden will be boosted by a £1.8 million slice of Single Regeneration Budget cash, earmarked for Greater Manchester. And,
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Angry O'Neill slams red cards
LEICESTER boss Martin O'Neill believes Uriah Rennie's inexperience added to the rash of red cards at the Reebok Stadium. The Sheffield referee's two dismissals on Saturday took the new stadium's list of shame to nine in just 15 Premiership games. Wanderers
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Branagan saves the day
WANDERERS 2, LEICESTER CITY 2: IT was an obvious comparison but Keith Branagan was genuinely startled at the very mention of Gordon Banks. "Steady on," the Wanderers keeper cautioned at the sacrilegious suggestion. "You're comparing me with the best save
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Elderly woman in flat attack ordeal
AN elderly widow was attacked in her home by thugs who smashed her front door down, tripped her up and dragged her outside. Mrs Alice Mort had returned from a night out at bingo with her neighbour, and suffered two fractured ribs, a dislocated shoulder
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Just a perfect day says Wigan coach
WEMBLEY bound Wigan Warriors produced an almost ideal performance for coach John Monie. The game's most successful coach was delighted with the way his side overcame a powerful London Broncos to book another return to the Silk Cut Challenge Cup Final.
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Murray's happy return opens Leigh's account
LEIGH CENTURIONS 19 WIDNES VIKINGS 14: ANTHONY Murray's smile was as wide as Hilton Park as the new Centurions star lapped up the acclaim. And why not. The one-time Widnes cast-off had just helped mastermind Leigh's first league win of the season after
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Towering talent bags Barry World Cup tickets
AN imaginative World Cup chant written by a Leigh man came first in a competition, run by the Nationwide Building Society, and earned him a place at the World Cup 98. Mr Barry Harker, one of twenty winners in the national competition, won a pair of tickets
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Free holiday offer 'became nightmare'
A BOLTON man is warning holiday bargain hunters to beware of free offers after he says he endured a nightmare. Terry Pike was offered a free holiday after he went to a presentation near Lancaster about time share accommodation. Mr Pike and his partner
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Try-anything culture
IT comes to something when pub and club staff in Bolton need to have specialist emergency first-aid training. But, the incident earlier this year when seven people collapsed in the town centre after taking lethal designer drug GHB clearly demonstrates
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Daily poem
By Mr J R Mather Castle Street, Bolton Bricks and mortar, they don't last. What is now will soon be past. What has past won't come again. Let us sing life's old refrain. In our mind, our memories keep. When we wake or when we sleep. Dream our dreams of
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Knifepoint mugging
DETECTIVES are hunting a masked knifeman who threatened a woman at knifepoint in Bradshaw today. The thug, wearing a balaclava face mask, is believed to have demanded money from the terrified woman after confronting her near Rigby Lane. He ran off towards
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Cameras to target danger drivers
MOTORWAY police will launch a new campaign this week in a bid to cut road deaths. The hi-tech approach using video cameras will target tail-gaters, drivers who cross verges and hatch markings at speed, motorists with poor lane discipline and drivers travelling
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£30,000 blaze but firm saved from disaster
TWO young apprentices told of their terror as they watched a fire threaten to destroy their firm. Chris Seal and John Lee, both 15, returned from a tea-break to find flames engulfing Charlton Sweeper Hire in Kearsley. But the pair quickly called firemen
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Heartless programme thieves
SIR: Our son, Max, lives, breathes, eats and sleeps Bolton Wanderers (especially Jimmy Phillips). He watches them home and away, in good times and bad. At every game he religiously buys a match programme with his own money and keeps every one. Last Saturday
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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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Boro suffer more torment
RADCLIFFE BORO's Unibond Premier Division torment continued, in a 3-0 home mauling by Marine. This was a performance lacking heart from Boro as the relegation crisis reaches breaking point. Not for the first time in recent weeks the only player to perform
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WANDERERS 2, LEICESTER CITY 0.
WANDERERS 3-5-2 KEITH BRANAGAN ... 9 MARK FISH ... 7 ANDY TODD ... 7 GUDNI BERGSSON ... 5 NEIL COX ... 6 PER FRANDSEN ... 6 JOHN SHERIDAN ... 6 ALAN THOMPSON ... 8 JIMMY PHILLIPS ... 6 DEAN HOLDSWORTH ... 5 BOB TAYLOR ... 7 Subs: John Salako (6) for Holdsworth
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Miracle Matt on mend
MIRACLE boy Matthew Sherlock says he can't wait to play football again, just three weeks after the horrific road accident which almost cost him his life. And it has been revealed that Matthew was brought round, when all hope seemed to be fading, by his
