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Scary Santa gets yo ho heave ho!
SANTA Claus has been given the heave ho by a local toddlers' group...because he was frightening the children. Organisers told Father Christmas to stay in Lapland this year and gave his job to a red suited rival instead. And yesterday there was hardly
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Nat's chuffed!
A TOY shop owner hopes sales of a model of Bolton's loco, the Lion of Vienna, will steam ahead. David Brandwood, who owns The Toy Shop in Wright Street, Horwich, plans to customise versions of a Hornby model train to sell on to the town's train buffs.
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Remember the day 344 died down pit
CHRISTMAS festivities in Westhoughton blend into the background on Monday, when the town remembers the victims of its worst single disaster. The Hulton Colliery, commonly known as the Pretoria Pit, was situated on the border of Atherton and Westhoughton
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Robbed Mary is touched by caring community
A CARING community has rallied round a disabled grandmother whose house was burgled as she laid her brother to rest. Earlier this week the BEN told how callous criminals smashed their way into Mary Morris's council bungalow and snatched dozens of Christmas
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Hospital Ward . . .
JUST when he thought he was over the worst, Gavin Ward found himself back on the casualty list this week. The luckless Wanderers' keeper had a groin problem when he returned from his three-month loan stint with Burnley, where he did well for the Clarets
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Dad's death bakery anger
BOLTON bakers Warburtons came under fire today from two young daughters whose dad died in a horrific works accident. Kerry and Kelly Howarth, whose father David was crushed under the wheels of a 40ft-long lorry reversing at the famous firm's Hereford
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She made bilberry wine
My great grandmother, born in the 1850s in Adlington, used to make wine out of the bilberries (whartleberry, but that's a Scots term) as no doubt her mother before her. Whimberry pie and whimberry tart did used to be a delicacy in Bolton up to the 1950s
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THE BIG ISSUE: Is there a heroin epidemic in Bolton?
By Jennifer Bradbury THE murder of Dillon Hull put the spotlight on Bolton's drug problem. But how widespread is it? And is it worse than other towns? According to a recent Home Office report Bolton has been identified as the one area in the North- west
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From the BEN files...
25 YEARS AGO THE first link has been forged between Bolton and the French industrial town of Le Mans. A party of 25 councillors and Corporation officials flew back to Bolton after two hectic days of town-twinning ceremonies. After the scroll signing at
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Life's full of scary people
AUTHORITY figures scare the life out of me. Bank managers, traffic wardens, dental receptionists - you name them, I'm frightened of them. "Ambrose Hilditch," my wife said. "What?" "Are you scared of Ambrose Hilditch?" "Either you're a first-time visitor
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Twelve jobs axed at can factory
A DOZEN jobs are set to be axed at a major Bolton factory. Bosses at the Carnaud Metalbox plant in Westhoughton have announced 12 redundancies. Management at the firm have blamed the job cuts on increasing competition, pressure from adverse exchange rates
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Water clever idea to get the message across
NORTH West Water is transforming night into day in Bolton to let customers know that help is just a telephone call away. The water giant is only the second company to use new technology which allows posters to literally change their content during the
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Songs of praise!
A BOLTON church congregation has shown that the community spirit is alive and kicking. Over the past five months the congregation at Birtenshaw Methodist Church, Bromley Cross, has embarked on a major overhaul of the premises. The men and women who regularly
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D-Day for Newsome
JON Newsome's future as a Bolton Wanderers player will be decided this weekend. The Sheffield Wednesday defender, who has made a big impression over the past month, was completing his loan at the Reebok today wth the two clubs still negotiating whether
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Enough proof
I TOTALLY agree with Kevin Meagher's letter "Blood on Their Hands". I remember hearing about the Pinochet regime in Chile in the 1970s and 1980s where people disappeared without trace. Needless to say William Hague and Co will defend him. Of course Margaret
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Three rats!
ON Sunday, December 13, I went on a trip to Haworth to see the Torchlit Procession with my daughter and a friend (organised by Timeline). The ticket clearly stated the return departure of 18.30pm. However, three ladies decided to stay for the carol service
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The jobs need regulating
HOW can Liverpool Council labourers take home £30,000 or more when Wigan Council Care Homes staff find their jobs taken over by lower pay and poorer conditions? Jobs need regulating for sure. Cleaners, security personnel and catering staff have all seen
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D-Day for Newsome
JON Newsome's future as a Bolton Wanderers player will be decided this weekend. The Sheffield Wednesday defender, who has made a big impression over the past month, was completing his loan at the Reebok today wth the two clubs still negotiating whether
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Young health in link with wealth
HEALTH and wellbeing are determined by social class. The most extensive survey of young people's health ever commissioned by the Department of Health reveals a female obsession with weight and binge drinking among young men. The psychological well-being
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Improve salaries
NURSING shortages in the NHS look set to deepen after new research revealed an average age of the profession is now 40. It seems that fewer nurses are coming into the profession, but if you look at nurses pay scales, many reach the top of their earning
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Hit-man Taylor
COLIN Todd has hailed Bob Taylor as Wanderers' No 1 striker - rewarding one of the hardest working front men in the business. It's not so much an expression of favouritism from the Reebok boss but an acknowledgment that the summer free transfer is currently
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How town won the £1.5m Moran fight
BOLTON's successful bid to bring one of its "lost" treasures back home has been given an official pat on the back. Bolton Council this week congratulated all the individuals and organisations across Bolton and beyond who pledged the £1.5 million needed
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Taxpayers were short-changed
THE NATIONAL Audit Office has revealed that taxpayers were short-changed to the tune of £1.5B from the sale of our railways. That's the equivalent of 30 new hospitals or a penny off income tax. Even the Tory Chair of the Commons Public Accounts Committee
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MPs at demo
I SEE that "closet Communists" David Crausby and Brian Iddon were busy rubbing shoulders with the Socialist Worker Party at the NUJ demo (BEN December 14). This is hardly appropriate behaviour for these two supposed servants of the Crown. The Socialist
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Editor's right
I READ with interest the story on page two in the BEN on Monday, regarding the demo the previous Saturday, against your paper, following the unfortunate redundancy of several members of your staff. You, Editor Mr Rossiter, got it right when you said that
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Is this the world's best kept secret?
RECENTLY we saw the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). This bedrock of human rights sets out the fundamental rights we are entitled to whether we live in Bolton, Brisbane or Bahrain. The Bolton Amnesty International
