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Village query
I WOULD like to know what is the new village shown on Emmerdale TV series. I have been through this village but can't put a name to it. Can anyone please help me? I have been a regular reader for 57 years. Robert Gidman Taunton Close, Smithills Converted
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Link-up service
ATTENTION all ex Military Police men and women, a free Link-up service is in operation to put you in touch with former CMP/RMP/WRAC Provost comrades. For further details send SAE to D Palmer, RMP Link-up, 10 Main Rd, Woolverstone, Suffolk IP9 1AL Derrick
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Start soon on community centre
WORK is set to start soon on a new community centre at Daisy Hill, Westhoughton. Council leisure chiefs are currently finalising details of the £141,000 scheme. They are hoping to start work in March and have the project completed by September. The scheme
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By Mark Longbottom
Mechanic trapped by lorry A MECHANIC was given emergency treatment by paramedics after being trapped by his head as he worked underneath a heavy lorry. Stephen Mason, aged 26, was working at Roy Braidwood and Sons commercial vehicle garage in Leicester
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Youth 'central to Octagon future'
THOUSANDS of youngsters will continue to benefit from a drama project based at the Octagon if the cash -strapped theatre is saved. Theatre chiefs say their youth and community work is a valuable part of the rescue package to go before arts chiefs. Fears
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WANDERERS: There's no French connection here!
THREE Bolton directors have sealed a deal in Paris that will bring 24-year-old Auxerre full-back Eric Assati to the Reebok taking Arnar Gunnlaugsson to the French club in a cash-plus-player exchange - provided Wanderers are promoted to the Premiership
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Town backs New Year all night drinking
ALL-NIGHT drinking to celebrate the Millennium could prevent trouble flaring in the town, a Bolton planning boss claims. Proposals to relax the alcohol licensing laws for New Year's Eve and New Year's Day have been given the thumbs up. Members of Bolton
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Call for relatives of the Hewitts
I AM writing to ask if any of your readers can help me trace descendants/relatives or know anything of a John and Martha Elizabeth Hewitt. I know very little about them, but as far as I know Martha lived at The Cottage, Church Lane, Harwood, Bolton, and
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WANDERERS: Perhaps the only way is out for Arnar
IT'S disappointing - sad even - that the Arnar Gunnlaugsson affair has reached the point at which Wanderers felt they had no alternative but to put their top scorer on the transfer list. At his best, the enigmatic Icelander is one of the most exciting
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Miners' cash to boost economy
BOLTON'S economy is set for a huge boost following the £500 million deal hammered out in the High Court for former mineworkers suffering Vibration White Finger. Yesterday Mrs Justice Smith approved the settlement at Manchester High Court, which means
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This is discrimination
THURROCK Council's demand that employees who smoke should have to work an extra two-and-a-half hours a week: Smokers are told to work king-size hours (Ben, January 15) is another example of the mindless discrimination adult smokers face. If other workers
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Birds of prey in Lancashire
IN the 1960s and 1970s birdwatchers in Lancashire tended to put the flags out to celebrate the sighting of a bird of prey. In the last 30 years, there has been a dramatic improvement - so dramatic that one single factor cannot have been responsible for
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Prince charming
WHEN Sophie Rhys-Jones and Prince Edward announced their engagement on Tuesday, January 5, the whole country rejoiced. About 220-or-so miles down the M1, two more families were also celebrating some good news. Helen Kennedy and her fiance, Matthew Smith
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Bolton 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); Dysons, 51 Lee Lane, Horwich (noon to 1pm); Cohens, 1 Market Street
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Fountains to stay
FURTHER to my letter regarding the fountains on Victoria Square, I have been advised that these will be re-erected on either side of the steps. B Walker Chorley New Road, Bolton Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting
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Special thanks
ON behalf of Hall i'th' Wood Residents' Association, we would like to say a very special thank you to Turton Rotary Club for their help and support over the past three years. And we thank them especially for the toys and gifts last Christmas that went
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Moggy misery
MY daughter's cat went missing last Tuesday. My daughter doesn't live with us any more. And last Tuesday her cat didn't appear to live with her any more either. We got the phone call at half-past nine that morning. "It's me, dad," my daughter said. "Before
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Primary pupils benefit from royal scheme
PRINCE'S Trust Volunteers have helped to improve the grounds of a local primary school. Leigh Team 1, from Wigan and Leigh College, developed a business plan for their project to enhance the grounds of Leigh CE Infants' School. The project, part of a
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Police will be under spotlight of pupils
TEENAGERS from a Bolton secondary school will be able to quiz police officers next week at a forum set up to give them a chance to air their opinions. A group of Year 10 pupils from St James's CE School will take part in Youth Forum - a meeting between
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They're going?
I WAS delighted to read in Your Views (January 16) from BRG Walker that the fountains, which have taken up so much space and been a complete eyesore for so many years in Victoria Square, will not be appearing again. They were the ugliest fountains I have
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Snooker fans cue up to remember Barry
SNOOKER players are set to take their cue in a bid to win a memorial trophy in honour of a player who died last year. Scores of contestants are set to compete for the Barry Parkinson Memorial Trophy in the coming weeks. Barry, 47, died last July after
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Dog(ged) opinion
I WAS reading, or should I say walking over the paper, when an article caught my eye. My good friend, Rover, had written to the newspaper. I also believe that we dogs shouldn't be penalised for doing our stuff. I, and many others, do not do anything in
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School sadness
I FOR one was very sad to hear about the re-location of Oxford Grove Primary School (January 14), because it does not meet the requirements of today's modern teaching. I was a pupil there myself in the 70s. Ironically, the school met the standards of
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One for the bin
ONE report that seems destined for the waste bin is the Acheson report, a study ordered by Health Secretary Frank Dobson, designed to improve the living and health standards of the less well-off. In his report, Sir Donald Acheson says, benefits should
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WANDERERS: Happy Wanderer Holdsworth
DEAN Holdsworth hasn't sported a broader grin since his Wimbledon days. The expression on his face after he'd scored the second of his brace at Bramall Lane summed up the emotions of a man who has shed a huge weight off his shoulders. He hasn't had the
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Huge street party plan for Millennium
PARTYGOERS in Bolton could be dancing in the street to mark the Millennium . . . for two and a half days! Town centre nightclubs Club Mondo and The Temple are planning to organise a gigantic street carnival. It would begin at midnight on December 31 and
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WANDERERS: Reebok stars plan for the day when their playing days are over
THINGS might be going well for Wanderers at present but that hasn't stopped a handful of Reebok stars looking to the future. Gudni Bergsson took the lead, of course, when he qualified as a lawyer in his native Iceland and now, in between training sessions
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Outlook healthy for hospitals going on line
BOLTON hospital bosses are aiming to get on line for the Millennium and deliver a fitter, leaner service. Negotiations are underway to introduce a comprehensive, computerised package which will improve patient care. The Integrated Patient Care Information
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Too many words
IN DECEMBER 1998, Cllr Spencer hurled wild accusations at Cllr Walsh ("the opposition"). "He wants to throw people out on the streets", he declared insisting that other cities and towns too had problems with rent arrears. He did not add that this is probably
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A snow system needed
BOLTON woke up on Tuesday morning, January 12, to a lovely covering of snow, making the world look clean, bright, with an added sense of "wonder". Children slipped and slid their way to school, motorists took added care driving to work or leisure, taking
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Government should heed
the people's verdict OUR Parliament's hush-hush plans for the bulldozing of artificial fluoride (a/f) legislation through Westminster, without a democratic countrywide vote, means we shall all drink toxic a/f for life whether we like it or not. In Ireland
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Fluoride
fear NEW Labour's proposal to forcethe water companies to add the highly toxic industrial waste of fluoride to the water supply, is against the wishes of the majority and a crime against basic human rights, especially in a democracy. For those wishing
