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Change for the better
CHANGES for the better we welcome unreservedly. And the £150,000 cash boost for the Mawdsley Street and Nelson Square conservation area can be put to good use. It's good to know priority will be given to improving the central park area of Nelson Square
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Seaside return if centre improves
SIR: I write with regard to the furore generated by the Labour Party's decision to suspend holding its annual conference in Blackpool. The Labour conference is the largest political conference in Europe. The massive increase in Labour's membership over
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£1.8m boost to brighten unemployment blackspot
COUNCIL bosses have welcomed news of a massive cash injection into a Bolton unemployment blackspot. Government ministers have announced that £1.8 million will be channelled into Burnden and Tonge as part of the Single Regeneration Budget fund. With unemployment
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REVIEW: Home Is Where The Clothes Are. Tyldesley Little Theatre. Runs until Saturday.
SET in the garden flat of a Victorian House in Prestwich this play, a typical, British farce is a non-stop series of banging doors, misunderstanding, sexual innuendo and ultimately utter chaos. Written by veteran stage writer Anthony Marriott, along with
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Band blows its own trumpet
WHEN it comes to orchestrating a publicity campaign, Smithills School's Senior Brass Band conducts itself perfectly. During a recent weekend, the band, which includes pupils from Bolton North Sixth Form College and music teacher Chris Wormald, had more
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Service with a smile
BOLTON traders have had lessons on being nice - to beat the menace of the massive Trafford "shopping city". Stallholders in the Market Hall, fearing fierce competition from the huge retail complex, hired customer care specialists to teach them how to
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We can beat drop says Fish
BOLTON Wanderers will take their survival fight to Wimbledon on Saturday, convinced they can still beat the drop. Their hopes of staying in the Premiership suffered a serious setback when they went down 1-0 at home to Championship challengers Arsenal
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We sent Deirdre to jail!
TWO Bolton jurors have revealed the secrets of the jury room at Deirdre Rachid's trial exclusively to the BEN. Don and Nora Howcroft were among the 12 good men (and women) who held the fate of the unfortunate Coronation Street resident in their hands.
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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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Keep character
TRADERS at Bolton's Market Hall are taking seriously the expected fierce competition from the huge retail complex at the Trafford Centre. Stallholders and their staff gave up their own time to attend weekly nightly classes on how to make shoppers more
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RMI aim to get back on a winner
IN spite of dropping four home points in the last two games, Leigh RMI travel to Winsford tonight, in the knowledge that a victory could move them up to third place. That would leave them four points behind Runcorn, who are in second spot, and the Railwaymen
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Followed advice
SIR: With reference to the scandalous car crime figures, my son followed all PC Ashall's advice: visible and invisible car devices, stop lock etc, but still had his car stolen two weeks ago. It disappeared without trace, this for the second time in two
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Pupils at race harmony school achieve targets
A SCHOOL has been praised by Government inspectors for the harmony which exists between different cultures and races. Bishop Bridgeman Church of England Aided Primary School has recently been inspected by an OFSTED team and their report highlights the
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From the BEN files
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, April 1, 1973 VAT was introduced into Britain today. On Saturday, shoppers flooded into town, taking a last chance to buy certain items which will cost more with the new tax. The main targets of the nation's big spenders
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Flagging a dead horse
UNEVEN pavements are the scourge of modern living. You only have to read the pages of the BEN to see how irritated the general public gets about wonky pavements. The news and letter pages are full of stories regarding falls and trips caused by poorly
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Motor dealer going under
A WELL-known Lancashire car sales and repair business has gone into receivership. Debts at Barton Motors (Chorley) Ltd are estimated at £750,000. Receivers from KPMG Corporate Recovery have been appointed to try and save the business as a going concern
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John, 87, gets the gift of full sight
A BOLTON pensioner has a twinkle in his eye - after a skilled surgeon gave him back his sight. John Bootham has been partially sighted for more than 50 years after a flashback accident when he was using an electric welding machine. The 87-year-old had
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Angry Blake accuses ref
By Gordon Sharrock: Bolton Wanderers 0, Arsenal 1 NATHAN Blake won't be keeping a welcome in the hillside or the vales for fellow Welshman Keith Burge. The Cardiff-born goal star echoed the verdict of his manager Colin Todd when he accused the Tonypandy
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Double cross
SIR: I was intrigued to read the Daily Poem from Mrs C Sharp (BEN, March 17), regarding the early pledges of the Labour Government, and the consequences nearly a year later. In particular, two lines of the poem said: "They criticised the Tories for all
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Helping to shape YOURfuture
RESIDENTS are using people power to help shape the future of their town. More than 100 local people have commented on ambitious plans to set up an urban Regeneration Project in the heart of Bury. Council bosses from the town's housing, education and environmental
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Closure plan
SIR: How will the police in the Bolton area put a stop to the record number of cars stolen? They plan to close down the police station. The law is going mad! Mr R Jones Derby Street, Bolton Previous news story Converted for the new archive on 14 July
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Replace station
SIR: I am writing in response to the continuing controversy regarding the parking problems at Lostock train station. I'm continually puzzled by the arguments regarding further expansion of the car park. Why even bother? Why couldn't Lostock's role as
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Rich man, poor man, parking row
POLICE have hit back at claims by a Bolton transport chief that there is one law for the rich and another for the poor when it comes to parking offences. Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Authority Vice-chairman, Cllr Guy Harkin, claimed in the BEN
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Claims on the rise says ACAS
CLAIMS made to industrial tribunals are on the increase. ACAS, the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, says the number of days lost through industrial action was at an all-time low in 1997. But at the same time, there was a 16 per cent increase
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Golf stalwart dies aged 80
A FORMER chairman of Bolton District Golf Charity Tournament has died, aged 80. Mr Vincent Sloan, also a past captain at Deane Golf Club, had been ill for a short time and died in Hulton Lane Hospital. He was a member of the Deane Golf Club for about
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Daily poem
Morning has broken, another day begins anew. The moon and the stars have vanished from our view. The sun is rising, tinting the clouds with a red and golden display, For this is going to be a wonderful day. The blackbird sings at the break of dawn, To
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Tom fund day
A FUN day raised £254 for a five-year-old fighting leukaemia. Family and friends of Deane boy Tom Molyneux, recovering from a bone marrow transplant at Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, held the event at St James's School, Farnworth. The cash will
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Raider held boy at knife-point
A TEENAGE thug attempted to rob a video shop in Leigh after grabbing another customer. The callous young raider tried to force the shop assistant at the store on Bold Street, Leigh, to hand over cash by holding another customer, a boy aged 14, at knife-point
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Boro make point
NEVER-say-die Radcliffe Boro picked up a priceless Unibond Premier Division point in a 1-1 draw at Chorley. Colin McRory nodded in Barry Hart's cross for a well deserved last gasp equaliser. "We played superbly in the second half," enthused Boro boss
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Thug rips coat off boy's back
A TEENAGER had a jacket ripped off his back after being mugged in Westhoughton. The coat, worth £120, was stolen by a youth who stopped and threatened the 14-year-old boy with violence on Mill Street. The boy tried to resist but the youth struggled with
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Tribute concert for crash victims
THE young lives tragically lost in the French Alps coach crash were remembered at St James's CE School, Farnworth, last night. Orchestra banners bought with donations by local individuals and organisations were dedicated in memory of one of the three
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The number is up for school's truants
TRUANCY at a Bolton school has fallen dramatically just two weeks after a new hi-tec scheme was introduced. Smithills School is testing the idea of giving pagers to parents of pupils who regularly skip classes. Just after half term, 10 pagers were issued
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Rooftop drama for shoppers
HIGH drama stunned shoppers in Bolton town centre yesterday. Horrified passers-by feared they were about to witness tragedy as a man threatened to jump more than 40ft from the top of a shops complex. Emergency crews from the police and ambulance service
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Bolton's push for wheelchair control reaps reward
BOLTON health bosses are now running their own wheelchair service - after a barrage of protests about the existing service. Under a new scheme launched today wheelchair services are now the responsibility of the Bolton Community Healthcare Trust and Wigan
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Concert for cancer kids a success
A SELL out concert at Farnworth and Kearsley Labour Club is helping provide entertainment for young cancer sufferers. Christie Hospital patient Eileen Shaw, of Farnworth, was so impressed with the bravery of the children she saw on her own visits to the
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Teenager attacked by pervert
DETECTIVES are hunting a pervert who indecently assaulted a teenage boy - after threatening to kill him. The man assaulted the terrified boy after stopping to ask him for directions. The attack happened last Friday when the man stopped the boy shortly
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Ongoing work
SIR: Your headlines and Opinion column on March 2 referred to the various roadworks underway around the town and the inconvenience they are causing to road users. I can understand and sympathise with the frustration all of this work is causing, but I
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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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Gudni in ban appeal
WANDERERS are ready to launch an appeal against Gudni Bergsson's sending off in Saturday's 2-0 defeat of Leicester. The Bolton captain, who is awaiting the report of match ref Uriah Rennie, will contest the verdict if he lands anything more than a one-match
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Town hall gets tough over ship's 'soft' name
TOWN hall chiefs have leapt to the defence of Bolton's adopted warship HMS Beaver denying its name is "soft." The Beaver has been at the centre of a row about the naming of fighting ships. The crew of another warship HMS Brave protested in a letter to
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OAPs get a chance to shape their future
AMBITIOUS plans are in place to give Bolton's elderly a greater say in their future needs. A campaign promoting a positive image of old people in the town will be launched and a new learning and resource centre is set to open with help from Age Concern
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Now Lenny sets his sights on Gazza
PAUL Gascoigne doesn't scare Lenny Johnrose. In fact Bury's combative midfielder is relishing his ultimate personal duel when the Shakers travel to Middlesbrough on Saturday week. "When I heard Middlesbrough were in for him I was praying he would sign
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Promotion broadens Stuart's horizons
STUART Scoffins has been appointed Area Customer Service Manager in Bolton for Parcelforce Worldwide, with responsibility for Liverpool, Wirral and Deeside. Mr Scoffins, based in Stonehill Road, Farnworth, is one of 25 around the country as Parcelforce
