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Jolly Robert!
HOW nice to see the face of our former Bolton West MP, Robert Redmond, in your columns after all these years (BEN January 4). And how appropriate that a former Tory MP should turn himself into an expert on pirates. Cllr Peter D Johnston Kendal Road, Bolton
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Doubts about the scheme
LIKE many others, I was also in Westhoughton Council chamber on December 11 for a meeting about plans for a new housing estate on one of the area's last green sites, and at their very glossy presentation on December 12. The developers put on a good show
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A superb
collection I THANK all the people in Bolton who gave so generously to the Snowman's collection run by Bolton Round Table before Christmas. After early rain, we had a superb collection and raised a grand total of £954 for local charities. Thank you again
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Residents win bollards fight
FOLLOWING complaints from residents, an order barring drivers from using the junction of Foster Lane and Dovedale Road in Breightmet has been overturned. Councillors on Bolton's highways sub-committee have also asked for a report on traffic problems experienced
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MP's praise for town homes plan
BOLTON MP Brian Iddon has praised moves to bring housing into the town centre. Speaking at the annual lunch of the Portico Housing Association, he said: "I have always advocated housing in the town centre and resisted attempts by town planners to zone
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MPs back plans to reform 'unjust' CSA
TWO Bolton MPs have welcomed plans to reform the controversial Child Support Agency. Social Security Secretary Alistair Darling has targeted the agency as one of his top priorities for 1999. Bolton South East Labour MP Dr Brian Iddon said: "This is marvellous
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Otis is the man for the Millennium!
A NEW chairman of the 3Ds Business Development Forum has been appointed. Otis Johnson, of Johnson Security Services based at Bolton Enterprise Centre on Washington Street, Deane, is looking forward to his new role. He said: "I am greatly honoured to be
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Head calms fears over killer bug
A BURY headteacher has reassured parents against the possibility of an epidemic in his school after a young girl contracted meningitis. The 14-year-old girl, a Year 10 pupil at Bury CE High School, was diagnosed with the disease last Sunday and is understood
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Holiday firm in table shock
A BOLTON holiday firm has come out at the bottom of a customer satisfaction table carried out by the Consumers' Association. Only one in five holidaymakers said that they would recommend Kearsley-based Sunset Holidays. The survey shows that holidaymakers
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SASA'S IN THE ARMY NOW
A COUNTRY call with a difference will keep Sasa Curcic out of the Crystal Palace side for Sunday's visit to the Reebok. The former Bolton star is on indefinite leave from the London club after being called up to do his national service in the Yugoslav
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CHEERS: Winter Festival is now in full swing
THE winter beer festival season is now in full swing. And the traditional Atherton Bent and Bongs festival is due to take place at the end of this month. The 10th Bent and Bongs festival will be held in the Formby Hall in High Street from January 28-30
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Could you pass the clean kitchen test?
BACTERIA, germs and bleach are back on the menu this month as Bolton's 16 Health Centres challenge you to test your wits on food hygiene. Bolton Council's Environmental Health Services Food Control Unit and Wigan and Bolton Health Authority's Education
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'Census abuse' fears are played down
FOR the first time since 1851, all British citizens will be asked to declare their religion in the next official census in 2001. And Bolton's ethnic communities have welcomed the move. The wave of support in the Bolton area, however, is in stark contrast
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From the BEN files
25 YEARS AGO SOME Asian grocers in Bolton are increasing the prices of their national foodstuffs by up to as much as 400 per cent, it was claimed today. The charge was made by another group of Asians who have formed themselves into the Asian Consumers
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TONIGHT: Gypsy's Tent, Spa Road, Bolton (Starski). Bulls Head, Bury Road, Bolton (Final Demand). Ban
SATURDAY: Hawthorns, Spa Road, Bolton (Tritonic). Bulls Head, Bury Road, Bolton (Muvva Luvvas). Witchwood, Ashton-u-Lyne (The Whistleblowers, JTM, Caiyelow). Roadhouse, Manchester (Cipher, Colour Blind). SUNDAY: Bulls Head, Bury Road, Bolton (Desperate
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My happy memories
EVEN 60 years since leaving Bolton, I still, after all these years, remember the wonderful times I had visiting the Palladium Picture House, The Rialto, at the corner of St George's Road, The Palais de Dance, the little butcher's shop across the road,
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Residents at risk
I was very annoyed to read in the Bolton Evening News on December 31 that though the council is planning to place speed restricting ramps in the roads all over the place around Bolton and Farnworth, there was no mention of any sort of speed deterrents
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Dynamic duo going places
BOLTON's very own Radio 1 DJ Mark Radcliffe, along with his sidekick Marc 'Lard' Riley, have pulled off a comeback that is right up there in the premier league. Following the disaster of their move to the high-profile breakfast slot, where they were blamed
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Sasa's in the army now
A COUNTRY call with a difference will keep Sasa Curcic out of the Crystal Palace side for Sunday's visit to the Reebok. The former Bolton star is on indefinite leave from the London club after being called up to do his national service in the Yugoslav
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Lesson punishment gets the green light
A SCHEME which will make careless drivers take lessons instead of getting penalty points on their licence has been given the go-ahead by councillors. At a meeting of Bolton Council's Highways sub-committee, members overwhelmingly endorsed the Greater
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Hayley's the people's champion
PEOPLE power voted in the BEN's Child of the Year for 1998 . . . and the winner is as cute as a "button"! Hayley Sophia Button from Sharples captured readers' hearts in the first year the competition was handed over to the public to judge. The youngster
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Army hopefuls on the front line for recruitment 1999!
EIGHT young men waved goodbye to Civvie Street when they became Bolton's first recruits of the year to enlist in the Army. They swore an Oath of Allegiance to the Queen at the Great Moor Street Army Career information office. The lads, aged between 16
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Historic market business in closure shock
ONE OF Bolton's oldest family businesses has been left reeling over fears that the council is set to double its Market Hall rents. Joseph "Pot" Bailey's, is today closing its 144-year-old glass and china shop, which fronts on to Knowsley Street. Owner
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Cheap rate hotline for job hunters
EMPLOYMENT minister Andrew Smith has launched a new national jobs hotline. For the price of a local telephone call unemployed job hunters can call 0845 6060 234. They are then put in touch with appropriate Employment Service Advisers such as those pictured
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Shares start the year on a high
By Jon Hitchin, Hargreave Hale Stockbrokers, Bolton SHARES have surged to their highest levels for five months in the last few days, as the FTSE finished the year not too far off the six thousand level. The number of shares being bought and sold over
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Foster a pet
NOW that the New Year is here - the last in this Millennium - many of your readers will have made resolutions to change their lifestyles, take up new hobbies, join a club or do some charity work. Paws for Kids can offer them a real opportunity to do all
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Pub's pride
Stout work DRINKERS at a well known pub on the Bolton/Bury border can sip their pints in confidence - after the pub's cellar won a top accolade. The cellar at the Sparking Clog on Radcliffe Moor Road, was short-listed for the final of the Banks's brewery
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SOCCER: D'Jaffo blow sparks striker search
BURY hope to have a new face in their strikeforce tomorrow after losing top striker Laurent D'Jaffo. French hit man D'Jaffo is expected to be out for up to a month after having a leg put in plaster to cure an achilles injury. His place at Huddersfield
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Rachel's role at Octagon
RACHEL Bartholomew is the Octagon Theatre's new Press and Marketing Officer. After graduating from Warwick University in 1990, Rachel, who is from the North-west, toured the UK with a children's theatre group before settling in London for six years. She
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Daily poem
Nothing touches the heart like a love song, Tugs the strings when dreams grow old. Old songs, love songs will never fade away, Each one tells a story, whatever time of day. A lingering sadness fills the air, you didn't wait, Silence stills the fading
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CHEERS: Charity champs
TWO Bolton licensees have celebrated the start of 1999 with a boost to reward their mammoth charity efforts. Dan Coughlan and his partner Caroline Hollins decided to turn their own personal tragedy into a positive future for local youngsters. Dan and
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Get you Big Mac fix on Route 66
FAST food giant McDonalds is the first major-name tenant to take a space at Route 66 - the five-acre mixed leisure and commercial scheme at Pilsworth, Bury. McDonalds has taken a half acre site at the former Bass Brewery distribution facility, which is
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Unfair treatment
I WAS made redundant from my job of 12 years on November 30, 1998. The firm I worked for ceased to trade because of its financial position. The sole proprietor of the firm is currently trying to enter into a Creditors' Voluntary Arrangement which could
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Out of fashion?
I hope that the following might trigger someone's memory and conscience. On Saturday, January 2, I visited Morrisons in Bolton. Between the check-out and parking area, I lost a black shopping bag containing a new black purse with an assortment of notes
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Year of achievement
COMPANIES in Deane, Derby and Daubhill celebrated their business achievements at presentation before Christmas. Thirteen companies went along to the Reebok Stadium to receive certificates from Bolton Bury Chamber deputy chief executive Mark Lloyd after
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Police swoop on £1million cannabis farm
DRUGS with a street value of more than £1million were seized when police swooped on a cannabis farm in Bolton. Today officers hailed the raid as a major victory in the war against the underground drugs trade on the town's streets. And the hunt for the
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Playing the name game
By Paul Gradwell QUIZ buff Paul Gradwell is something of an expert when it comes to the real names of famous people. Paul, a 50-year-old credit controller who lives in Morris Green Lane, Bolton, has spent more than 40 years acquiring knowledge about the
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Chemists open tomorrow
Nash, 15 Devon Street (9am to 10pm); Landmark, 12 Chorley New Road (9am to 1pm and 2pm to 11pm); Cohens, 576 Blackburn Road (9am to 10pm); Gordon, 193 Bolton Road, Kearsley (noon to 1pm); Hooton, 182 Lee Lane, Horwich (noon to 1pm); Cohens, 1 Market Street
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Khan Saab Indian Restaurant, Bury New Road, Whitefield.
TUCKING into a tasty meal in the former home of Britain's last official hangman might be enough to make most people lose their appetite. But after a major refurbishment, the stylish Khan Saab Indian Restaurant in Whitefield is a far cry from its days
