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Fighting to keep wrestling alive
THE New Year award of the MBE to 75 years-old John Rigby - life president of the Bolton Olympic Wrestling Club -has highlighted wrestling in the town. Mr Rigby trained more than 150 British schoolboy wrestling champions during 50 years. This public endorsement
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Lovely presents
MAY I take this opportunity to thank St Thomas's & St John's, Lostock, for the lovely presents they gave us from their Toy Service and to the ladies of the Church cafe who support us all through the year. Also to Bolton Lions for the gifts they distributed
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I'm looking for two Army pals
I AM trying to trace two Army friends I last saw in 1945/6. We were all in the RASC Army Corps. They would now be aged around 73. Their names are Ronnie Siddons and Renee Siddons (nee Strott) and were stationed in Woking, Surrey. I lost sight of them
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Operation blow for cancer man
s=10.5A BOLTON pensioner suffering from cancer has been left devastated after being told an operation to help him swallow has been postponed. Ronald Catterall's operation is among nearly 200 in Bolton which have been hit by the crisis caused by the flu
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WHAT SANTA GIVES, THIEVES TAKE AWAY
CALLOUS thieves are stealing bikes given to children as Christmas presents. Devastated parents have been calling the BEN to describe their children's upset after being robbed of the presents they had been looking forwad to for months. Philip Blackburn
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Free to imbibe
P OSBOURNE writes about the "hysterical ramblings" of the anti-fluoride lobby (BEN, January 5). I rather think it is the members of the fanatical pro-fluoride lobby who are the hysterical ones. No-one is preventing these people from taking fluoride if
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COUPLE GET ALARMED OVER BLAZE ESCAPE
LUCKY-TO-BE alive fire victims Dorothy and Ian Roddie are urging Bolton people to add another New Year's Resolution to their list. The Halliwell couple lost everything but their lives in a blaze at the start of the New Year and say 1999 is the year every
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Couple get alarmed over blaze escape
LUCKY-TO-BE alive fire victims Dorothy and Ian Roddie are urging Bolton people to add another New Year's Resolution to their list. The Halliwell couple lost everything but their lives in a blaze at the start of the New Year and say 1999 is the year every
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Paws for thought
MY master has just told me about the draconian proposals of Bolton Council with regard to dog fouling, as reported in BEN, January 5. It seems to me as though dogs are joining motorists and another persecuted minority. I always do my business in my own
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Forced deal
THE LABOUR government's New Deal scheme for 18-24 year olds is now being forced on claimants of all ages. Single parents will also be offered a New Deal when their youngest child reaches the age of five. The Employment Services tell us that the New Deal
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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
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Dynamic duo
going places DIARY-mark-PIC 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
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A NEW scheme, the first of its kind in the country, called PAWS for Kids is about to be launched in
The scheme involves fostering out the pets of women and children who have left an abusive home to go into a refuge. As space is limited, there isn't any room for family pets and many times they have to be left behind. Now PAWS for Kids is looking to recruit
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Pennington Flash wildlife dream
FOR more than 100 years Lancashire had more industry than anywhere else in the world. It made its money from three things, each beginning with the letter 'C'. These were cotton, canals and coal. The effect of industry on Lancashire's wildlife was almost
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Second baby a hit for DJ Mark
BOLTON'S Radio 1 DJ Mark Radcliffe has become a dad for the second time. Bella, his wife of nine months, gave birth this week to daughter Mia, who weighed in at a healthy 9lb 8oz. The DJ is taking a week off work to celebrate. Kevin Greening and Chris
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Now they're even stealing the flowers
EVIL thieves have plundered flowers laid by mourning relatives at the graves of their loved ones. People laying wreaths and posies at headstones in the graveyard of St James's Church, Farnworth, are being forced to chop off stalks to deter the thieves
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Bravery awards await town's heroes
THE bravery of local police officers and other heroes will be honoured at a special award ceremony next week. The Mayor of Bolton, Cllr Peter Finch and the Mayoress Rita Fairhurst, together with the Chief Constable, David Wilmot, will present awards to
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Calling Canada!
I AM trying to contact friends who moved to Canada in the 1960s. They are Anne and Malcolm Horrocks. They had two children - Jacqueline (I am her godmother) was born in Bolton in 1964, and David, also born in Bolton. Anne (nee Young) lived with her parents
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The rat of the week
I WOULD like to nominate as "Rat of the Week" the person(s) who, in the early hours of December 20 1998 (approximately 4-4.30am), smashed into the back of my car parked on Bury Road, Bolton rendering my vehicle a total "write-off". As this person did
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In the real world
THIS week I have been reading about Mr Blunket's comments on parents who take their children out of school to go on holiday. Mr Blunket's comments just go to show yet again how out of touch the government is. If they lived in the real world they would
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Education fails all of us now
I AGREE with your correspondent, Brian Derbyshire. Education at present is failing us, and this is not the fault of the teachers. Teachers privately complain to me that they spend too much time these days on keeping records, statistics, doing reports,
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BOLTON OPEN QUIZ LEAGUE
RESULTS (Tuesday, January 5): Knockout Cup: Clifton Cluckers 44 Wrights Arms 64; King William 49 Clifton Arms A 49 - Clifton Arms A won on 13th tie break question. Plate Knockout (Handicaps will apply - add the figure in brackets to the final score for
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More bus chaos as drivers strike
BUS users face more chaos on Monday when Stagecoach Ribble drivers strike for the second time in a month. All the company's services throughout the Bolton area are expected to come to a standstill with the exception of some school services. The industrial
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Keep it curvy
IT seems men in Bolton like their women curvy. No waif-like skin and bone for our boys - they want REAL women, according to the BEN's street poll. And it looks like they're in luck because 1999 could be the "Year of The Curves." At last women can ditch
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What's On in, and around the Bolton area, this weekend
MUSIC & DANCE: SUNDAYMONDAY BESSES Boys' Youth Band for boys and girls, beginners, 6pm, full band rehearsals, 7pm, Clarkes Hill, Prestwich, Tel: 0161 766 9407 evenings. WALKDEN Sapphires Morris Dancing Troupe, practice night, Little Hulton Community
