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Previous sport story Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.
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Town honours its green crusaders
GREEN campaigners, young and old, were honoured when they were presented with the town's Civic Pride Awards. The awards, run by Bolton Council's Environment Team and sponsored by the Bolton Evening News, recognise the achievements by individuals, companies
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Medical misery
LAST Friday's front page story about the frail 79-year-old woman, who allegedly had to wait several hours on a hospital trolley and a wheelchair before she was found a bed, is another example of a health service that's a suitable case for treatment. Don't
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Canada calling
SIR: I was born in Bolton. I went to Canada in 1976 and would like to try to get in contact with old classmates from Hayward Secondary Modern School. Ray D email: Radr@yesic.com Previous news story Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images
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Lions pack power
SWINTON'S expensively assembled pack laid the platform for a crucial 20-16 victory at second placed Hunslet Hawks. With three forwards also on the bench, the Lions blasted the Hawks up front to remain on the fringe of the top five. Steve Gartland laid
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Some good came of it
SIR: I thank you for publishing my letter the other week regarding "Blackrod's disgusting roads". I do believe some good came of it for one exciting day. Firstly I had a councillor knocking on my door to ask if I could count on his Labour vote. The first
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£25m 'copter order will keep jobs flying
A COMPANY in Westhoughton has landed a £25 million order. Italian aircraft manufacturer Alenia Aerospazio has selected the APPH Group and Magnaghi Spa of Italy to supply the landing gear and associated hydraulic equipment for the C27J Spartan tactical
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Blimey mate, it's a winner
Ruth Mauriello By Doreen Crowther Me and My Girl, Farnworth AODS, Albert Halls, Bolton. Runs until Saturday BRIMMING with audience appeal this popular show, about the cockney who becomes a lord, is given star treatment by director/choreographer Bernard
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Daily poem
God gave us hands so we could pray So we could clap when pleased in any way, He gave us feet with legs so we can walk, A tongue as well, that we may talk, Eyes and ears to listen and shed tears And to love, he gave us a heart, Which some people lose when
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With Pic.
Bike-mad Jason killed in smash A BACHELOR was killed in an horrific motorcycle crash as he rode home - having just bought parts for the machine he loved so much. Jason Blenkinsopp, aged 26, suffered appalling head injuries when he fell from his beloved
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Students 'show business insight'
A BOLTON solicitor listened to a group of Blackburn students when they discussed British companies. It was part of a national programme aimed at finding out people's perceptions of UK business. Alan Lewis, a partner with Bolton solicitors Keogh Ritson
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Charity status
SIR: Your report of Horwich Town Council pumping another £50,000 into the Horwich Resource Centre (BEN, May 18) shows to all interested parties that the local Labour party and their Liberal Democrat lap dogs have failed to take on board the suggestions
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Police probe baby death
A 17-year-old Bolton mother has been interviewed in connection with the death of her new born baby girl. Today a police investigation was examining detailed medical evidence, including a post mortem on the baby, which is believed to have died very soon
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Let's have a rest now
SIR: The local council elections are finished and all the parties are expressing how well they have done. It was, therefore, of some interest to look at how well our newer potential councillors had fared. This was especially interesting as we had been
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Jane to rescue of horse fall girl
A FIRST aider came to the rescue of a young Bolton rider who was knocked unconscious after being thrown from her horse. Jane McQueen, 22, who had only just passed her work's first aid exam, sprang into action after 19-year-old Greta Howarth was catapulted
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Blaze destroys pavilion
A £120,000 park pavilion was destroyed by fire early today. Fire fighters arrived at the burning building in Close Park on Dumers Lane, Radcliffe, at 4.19am and were still at the scene five hours later. Crews from Bury, Whitefield and Heywood attended
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Sharp-eyed worker saves blaze mill
FIREFIGHTERS battled for hours to save a Farnworth paper mill from going up in flames. A sharp eyed shift worker raised the alarm after spotting smoke coming from the compressor room at Robert Fletcher's Paper Mill on Market Street. More than 20 firemen
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Like soccer pitches
SIR: Through the Points of view page in the BEN, may I ask the councillors in charge of recreation facilities (I refer to Parks), why have the bowling greens on Haslam Park been left to overgrow? They are cut probably twice a week or mowed at such a speed
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Sailor's farewell
AUSTRALIAN Test winger Wendell Sailor has turned his back on Wigan and decided to stay with the Brisbane Broncos until the end of 2000. Sailor said he would drop planned legal action against the champion Brisbane club and accept a two-year option on his
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PAGE lead for Mon?
Missing snake back home A BOLTON man was charmed to see a picture of his missing pet snake in the BEN last week. Michael Edgerley had spent £25 on the baby Mexican Black King snake as a pet for his son Brandon, aged five. But last September, the reptile
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Save the hedgehog
SIR: Where is all our wildlife going? asked Joanne Hampson in your April 23 issue. As well as dying on the road, hedgehogs are being killed in our own gardens, often in spite of our best intentions. If you are buying slug pellets, please choose the ones
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Whites fans bury their sorrow
DEPRESSED Wanderers fans wept so much about their team's relegation that they organised a FUNERAL to get the sorrow out of their system. Supporters who drink in the Queen's Head, Horwich, "buried" a club in the pub cellar for grief relief after the Super
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An example to all of us
IF other places took a leaf out of Bolton's book on environmental issues, Britain would be a much better place in which to live. The fact that both young and old alike, along with groups and businesses, were honoured for their efforts at the town's Civic
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No original research
SIR: Given that the Report of the Scientific Committee on Tobacco & Health (SCOTH) contains no original research and merely lists the catalogue of spurious claims made against smokers, one has to ask whether this anti-smoker utopian wishlist is the
