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Palace Theatre, Manchester:Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty;
Moscow City Ballet. TCHAIKOVSKY'S ballet, Sleeping Beauty, is a timely post-Christmas offering - just the right tonic to blow away those January blues. It may not have stopped raining in Manchester and Bolton since God knows when, but last night we were
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Leave us alone now
OH what a lovely childhood we had growing up in Westhoughton walking and playing in the beautiful green fields of wild flowers, rabbits, hares, all kinds of birds and wildlife in abundance. We have watched as our green fields have been taken one by one
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Lewis still shopping for improved area
BURY South MP Ivan Lewis is keeping up the pressure for regeneration of the rundown Elms Shopping Centre in Whitefield. Last year Mr Lewis, ward councillor Warren Flood and Bury Council's Head of Economic Development, Colin Fishwick, went to the Isle
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Alison's 100 mile wall walk
GYMNASTICS coach Alison Smith is set to perform a balancing act with a difference. For Alison, aged 25, of Manchester Road, Blackrod, is carrying out a charity walk in May ... along part of the Great Wall of China. She is going to walk more than 100 miles
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It's a twin bolt from the blue
A STRIKING new landmark is to be unveiled at the entrance to an Atherton attraction. To reflect the town's industrial past, a pair of nine foot bolts are about to be planted at the start of the Chanters Valley site, a new community recreational area.
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Horse rider: My lucky escape
A BOLTON woman who plunged into a freezing canal with her horse spoke today of her ordeal. As reported in yesterday's BEN, Josephine Davies, 33, of Ainsdale Road, Great Lever, was dragged backwards into the Bridgewater Canal at Boothstown after her horse
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New clue to Danny killer
DETECTIVES hope the tattered remains of a leather wallet will help track down a vicious killer who battered unconscious a Bolton pensioner before burning him alive. They hope the badly burned wallet - discovered alongside the body of Daniel McFadden -
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Quality software
WESTHOUGHTON-based RIVA Group Ltd has achieved ISO 9001 certification for its point of sale software systems - three years after obtaining ISO 9002. The new recognition extends the original accreditation from service, helpdesk support, engineering and
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Disgust at development
I AM writing again about my disgust on the proposed development of Lee Hall in Westhoughton. The scale of this proposed super estate and industrial estate is absolutely enormous and taking up so much greenbelt land is pure greed. Westhoughton would be
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RUGBY: Fans dig deep to buy their own player
FANS of Leigh Centurions have put their hands in their pockets and bought their own player! The Leigh Independent Supporters Association (LISA) have raised enough money for coach Ian Millward to land exciting Aussie backrower Jamie Kennedy on a one-year
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Daily poem
In no way elusive (With apologies to the Scarlet Pimpernel) You hear them here. You hear them there. Today you hear them everywhere. The biggest menace ever known, That damned annoying mobile phone. By B W Tyas Cooper Breckland Drive, Heaton, Bolton Converted
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STAGE: Carry on with the good work!
EASTENDERS' star Barbara Windsor has sent a good-luck message to Nohow Productions who present the musical Sing a Rude Song next month. In a letter to Director, Nora Howcroft, Barbara writes: "I was delighted to hear that your company will be producing
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Dear Mr Till:
In this open letter to Lawrence Till, Artistic Director of the Octagon Theatre, a reader sums up the views of a number of people who have contacted the BEN. We invite Mr Till to reply in this newspaper. WITH regard to the Octagon's problems, I felt compelled
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Young people take on big business
YOUNG people from Bolton and Leigh are among a group of youngsters challenging big business. They are among 150 people aged 10 to 25 who took part in the Manchester Young Persons Forum in Granada's Starlight Theatre yesterday. The meeting was one of three
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Self-indulgent?
THE HEADLINES in last Tuesday's BEN that the Octagon Theatre is in financial trouble came as no surprise to me or I'm sure the many thousands of its patrons throughout the North-west. Most of us have been saying for the last few years that though the
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Top stage star Jim dies aged 82
A LITTLE Lever ventriloquist who once got star billing above Morecambe and Wise has died aged 82. Jim Tattersall was a successful theatre and variety club act, one-time TV personality and latterly known for his model making. He died on Friday in Royal
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Ofsted team heap praise on primary school
By BEN Reporter SCHOOL inspectors have praised standards at a Radcliffe primary school. An Ofsted team reported that Radcliffe Hall Church of England and Methodist Primary School provides "a safe, secure and caring environment, promotes positive attitudes
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Boy off school in safety row
PARTIALLY-SIGHTED Daniel Paxford has missed classes for the past five months because of a row over which school he goes to. His mother Janine claims the council is putting Daniel, who also has hearing problems, in danger by sending him to a school miles
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Driver delivers urgent message
THE devastating effects of speeding were shown today when a local man told his story at the launch of a new "Kill Your Speed" safety campaign. Mark Lavery, aged 27, had his life and confidence shattered and even lost his job when he hit a young girl who
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Top marks all round
THE county's ambulance service, Royal Bolton Hospital's eye unit, Bolton Tax Office and a Bolton Social Services catering unit have all been given top awards for public service. The 1998 Charter Mark Award has come as a particular tonic to the county's
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School's seal of approval
BOLTON Business School's innovative Master of Business Administration Course for small businesses has received official Government approval. The programme is praised as an example of co-operation between industry and academe in a White Paper issued by
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Quartet pizzicatos its way north to Bolton
THE Bridge String Quartet, right,Zfrom London visits Bolton again this Sunday when they will be in concert at the Bolton School Arts Centre. The musicians will be whisking their audience off to the fiords of Norway and the sounds of the Hardanger Fiddle
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OPINION: Time to change this decision
BOLTON Education Department may have followed all the correct procedures in deciding which school partially sighted Daniel Paxford should attend, but they have still arrived at the wrong decision. To ask the 12-year-old, who also has hearing problems,
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HEALTH MATTERS: Future looks bright for Jack
BETTER: Jack Wright FROM being just four months old Jack Wright was plagued by an eye condition which caused him great pain and his mother anxiety. For Jack, who will be two in March, suffered with a recurrent stye on his left eye which swiftly transferred
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Town's own Crimewatch
IF you live in Adlington and have strong feelings about crime in your area, Chorley Council is inviting you to a public meeting. A consultation document called "making our communities even safer" has been circulated outlining the possible priorities to
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From the BEN files
THE Rev Thomas Edmundson allowed himself a few moments of anger when thieves stole lead flashing from the church schoolroom roof. But Mr Edmundson, vicar of St Paul's Church, Halliwell Road, Bolton, soon remembered his responsibility for preaching the
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Help needed
THE BRITISH and International Sailors' Society thank everyone who gave their time and donations during our house to house collections in the Manchester area during 1998. The total raised was £6896. The dates for our 1999 Bolton campaign is March 7-13;
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What's on in and around Bolton,Wednesday 27.1.99
THEATRE, MUSIC & DANCE AMBASSADORS Girls' Morris Dancing Troupe, practice night for ages 5 to 15, St Andrew's Methodist Church, Tonge Moor Road, Bolton, 6.30pm-9.30pm. Tel: 01942 255484. SOCIAL sequence dancing, Turton High School, Bromley Cross,
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New clue to Danny killer
DETECTIVES hope the tattered remains of a leather wallet will help track down a vicious killer who battered unconscious a Bolton pensioner before burning him alive. They hope the badly burned wallet - discovered alongside the body of Daniel McFadden -
