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Cleaning query
READ in the BEN, that owing to a shortfall in revenue, the Council was considering a reduction of the Bolton cleaning staff to meet their financial commitment. In the new £1m Victoria Square this week, I was horrified to see the amount of chewing gum
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Scrooge's
in disguise I WOULD like to inform you Scrooge is not dead, he is walking around Farnworth disguised as a traffic warden. My wife and I had reason to go to Farnworth on November 24. We entered Brackley Street from Asda direction, when I drove into Brackley
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Closure anger
I COULD not believe what I read recently about the proposed closure of police stations in the Bolton area, especially Howell Croft. Crime is one of the major issues today and I cannot see how the proposed closures will help. People do not want to talk
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Mucky movies...but only on the way to the cinema!
CINEMA-goers heading on foot for the new Virgin Complex in the Tonge Valley will be getting more mud than pop corn, it is claimed. Cllr Stuart Murray said footpaths leading to the new Virgin Cinema Megaplex on the Valley leisure development, off Blackburn
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Berry clear
I REFER to the article in the BEN regarding the name whinberry. Whin is an old name for the gorse and furze that grows on moorland. People would go to collect the berries from the bushes that grew among the whin. Therefore it would seem logical that in
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Wanderers - action replay
COLIN Todd is ignoring talk of a 'crisis' at Portsmouth ahead of tomorrow's Reebok clash. The Wanderers boss, who is looking for a repeat performance of the last home game when his team blitzed Bury, doesn't expect Pompey's financial problems to cast
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Louise Tansey looks at life in the 3Ds - Deane, Derby and Daubhill
Pupils bring cheer to old and needy CHRISTMAS presents galore were presented to the old and needy in Deane this week at a special party organised at the Lilian Hamer House. Youngsters from The Deane School, New York, have been collecting goodies to fill
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Seeds of the stench
HOW jolly decent of Mr Butterfield of Hampshire to request our views concerning the super estate plan. Does he really expect us to believe that anyone will take a blind bit of notice? The seeds of destruction have already been sown in Westhoughton. They
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Postmaster's masked man raid ordeal
A MASKED armed raider escaped with a haul of cash after he threatened a Westhoughton postmaster last night. The man burst into the Hindley Road Post Office, Hindley Road, and threatened to shoot the postmaster, aged 41. He thrust a brown paper bag over
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Sleazy greetings!
A DISGUSTED dad-of-two has slammed Bolton shopkeepers for selling what he claims are smutty Christmas cards. Westhoughton man John Burns says he was disgusted to see Yuletide cards bearing saucy cartoon pictures on sale in Bolton shops. And the 49-year-old
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Firm supplies the mast market!
BOLTON company Joseph Young and Sons has completed two of these telescopic fire-fighting masts for export to India. They make it possible for off-shore fire-fighting vessels to project water over 120 metres. Two stainless steel telescopic masts are fitted
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Low priority
PEOPLE in Bolton may be curious about research by Bolton Community Healthcare Trust which reveals that lesbian health is often neglectd locally. This apparently included a lack of support for lesbian women wanting to get pregnant. In a financially perfect
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The patients are paying
I WAS most interested to read an advertisement in your publication for a "Director of Finance and Chief Executive Training scheme" for the National Health Service. The qualifications to train for this post included an Honours Degree, GCSE maths and English
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Housing immigrants
I REFER to the news item in the Bolton Evening News, November 23 - allocation of £30 million to house illegal immigrants, supposedly political asylum seekers. When local government are closing old folk's homes through lack of funds, probably to re-open
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House burgled 27 times in ten years
AN ELDERLY couple reckon they live in Bolton's most burgled home . . . after being targeted 27 times in 10 years! Jessie and Paul Convery have been victims of a catalogue of crimes which has seen their house ransacked three times, garage and shed broken
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Do children still love Father Christmas?
'TIS the season of peace on earth and goodwill to all men but it seems these glad tidings do not extend to Father Christmas. Over the past few weeks two Father Christmases have been assaulted in the Bolton area- one was robbed at gunpoint and another
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Independent standing
WITH reference to Peter Johnson's letter December 9. We in the Labour Party have a duty to keep our elected representatives feet firmly on the ground. Therefore if Peter's challenge to Christine Adams, to stand against him in the elections in 2002, is
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Firework misery
I refer to the proposal to ban fireworks. I realise that a total ban would bring misery to lots of people, not least children. But what about the misery caused to the rest of the population? There is no such occasion as Bonfire Night any more. It should
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It's the fruit
MY dictionary says wimberry - the whortleberry. Bilberry - a shrub with dark blue berries called also whortle-berry. The New Universal Dictionary, January 1965. So bilberry is the bush and wimberry is the fruit. So Boltonians are correct. Mrs G Battersby
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Brighten your life
HAVING penfriends can brighten anyone's life. The Pen-Link club is open to everyone - adults and children. For more information, please send SAE to: The Co-ordinator, Pen-Link (A52), 35 Dunkirk Lane, Leyland, Preston PR5 3AX. Mrs Nina Davis Regional Co-ordinator
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House burgled 27 times in ten years
AN ELDERLY couple reckon they live in Bolton's most burgled home . . . after being targeted 27 times in 10 years! Jessie and Paul Convery have been victims of a catalogue of crimes which has seen their house ransacked three times, garage and shed broken
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Whitlow's prediction
TWO glorious play-off triumphs have given Mike Whitlow a greater appreciation than most of what it takes to get into the Premiership. Wembley wins with Leicester in 1994 and 1996 qualify the experienced left-back to give an informed opinion on Wanderers
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Heartbroken parents pay tribute to their battling son
A BRAVE disabled man has died of pneumonia after years battling illness. Just days after Andrew Leaver had helped to decorate the Christmas tree at his parents' home he was struck down with a chest virus. Andrew, 30, who had fought against severe epilepsy
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Wanderers - action replay
COLIN Todd is ignoring talk of a 'crisis' at Portsmouth ahead of tomorrow's Reebok clash. The Wanderers boss, who is looking for a repeat performance of the last home game when his team blitzed Bury, doesn't expect Pompey's financial problems to cast
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Bill Jacob's Political Focus
Under promise and over deliver ... TONY Blair's Labour Government is 'new' in a way nobody realised when they were elected last May. Traditional 'old' Labour governments talked very radical and did very little. But Mr Blair's administration talks very
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It's legal robbery
I AM a pensioner. I have just drawn my £10 bonus. Big deal! If Mrs Thatcher and the Tories had not broken the link with wages it would be now worth £84! Also, my pension would be £24 more per week. So, we pensioners have been legally robbed. Is it any
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SOCCER: Burnley track Shakers pair
STAN Ternent wants Gigg Lane favourites Lennie Johnrose and Nick Daws to follow him to Burnley. Ternent, who quit the Shakers in the summer and took his assistant Sam Ellis with him, is understood to have informed his former club of his interest and his
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Daily poem
Christmas message We celebrate this Chrismas time In words, in song, in prayer, in rhyme. And Winter's snows may dress the scene On an Christmas so blessedly serene. Gifts express our token love, For kith and kin from God above. And within us burns a
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On song for Caring Christmas Appeal
THE last lucky set of heat winners took their place in the Grand Final of the Bolton Search For A Star contest. Bar Peru in Manor Street has been playing host to a huge number of talented hopefuls during the past few weeks. And now the successful acts
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Music: Flooding the market
LOCAL band Flood are included on a new CD set for release next year. In the past, bands featured have gone onto to launch successful recording careers. In keeping with the government's recent pledge to support young musicians, Resolution Records, the
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Nicola misses her best mate
POOR Nicola Stapleton! The Young Person's Guide To Becoming A Rock Star actress is so busy she doesn't even have time to visit her bezzy mate Julie Roach, from Bolton! In a recent interview in the Daily Mirror the 24 year old described how she has known
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From the BEN files...
CAR bomb terror returned to London today when an explosion ripped through buildings near the heart of Westminster while thousands of people were on their way to work. At least 52 people were taken to hospital. SOME local hairdressers have been using electric
