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Museum is pupils' half-term haven
BOLTON Museum and Art Gallery is staging an exciting array of activities to keep the kids happy during the half-term holiday. The gallery has taken its new painting by Moran as an inspiration for lots of exciting activities in the art gallery, museum
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Gardners' search
WILL anyone out there who knows the whereabouts of the Gardner family, please contact me on 01803 557671. Mrs Charles Gardner was a councillor for Bolton in 1947, and they then lived in Woodgate Street. In the 1960s Mrs Gardner lived somewhere in Breightmet
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Did you suffer?
I AM writing a book about evacuees who were abused physically, mentally or sexually during the Second World War and would be interested to hear from anyone who suffered during those years. Letters will be treated with total confidence. Give me simply
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Can anybody out there solve this U.F.O. riddle?
A DISPUTE is still raging between UFO enthusiasts about a mystery object spotted above Bolton, more than six months after it was captured on video. The sighting - the only one in the town known to be captured on video film - sparked speculation of a genuine
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What a nerve
I THINK Prince Charles has got a nerve to be seen recently in public with Camilla after all he did to our Queen of Hearts, Diana. When, and after, he got married he still kept in touch with Camilla. To me she is no film star. It's a wonder Diana doesn't
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Swearing - you don't have to advertise it!
BEN readers give thumbs down to 'Bloody Big Sale' OH deary me - bad language is sparking more complaints than ever with swear words in magazines and on TV clearly getting on people's nerves. Now advertising has also come under fire - and who wouldn't
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Wide benefits
I HAVE followed the recent series of articles concerning the Octagon Theatre with interest, and some concern. Measured on any scale: artistic merit, acting, production or technical excellence, the Octagon can stand alongside any provincial theatre in
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Less hours, for same pay
REMPLOY, which has a factory in Bolton and a distribution centre in Radcliffe, has offered to reduce the working week of its disabled employees by one hour - without loss of pay. The offer comes as part of a substantial package aimed at improving the
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What's on in and around Bolton, Sunday, 7.2.99 and Monday, 8.2.99
SUNDAY MUSIC & DANCE CEILI Dancing with Michael Kierans, St Edmund's Church Hall, off Deansgate, 7.30pm-9.30pm. MONDAY EAGLEY Jazz Club will be joined by The Harlem Hot Stompers at Eagley Sports and Leisure Club, Hough Lane, Bromley Cross at 8.30pm
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X-car unit's £95,000 crime haul
POLICE recovered £95,000 worth of vehicles and property in a car crime blitz in Bolton and Bury. During the operation by the specialist X-Cars unit a total of 22 people were arrested in connection with a range of offences. The five day crackdown - code-named
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Council praised over empty desks review
BOLTON'S battle to remove surplus places in local schools has been welcomed by the Government. Schools Minister Charles Clarke has praised authorities who have stepped in to tackle the problem and threatened to take action against those without an action
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Bingo gran's £11,000 robbery anguish
EVERY penny of an £11,000 will left by an old man who "didn't trust banks" has been stolen in a break in at a Westhoughton house. Devastated Mrs Jean Fearn believes the thieves broke in for £325 she was looking after for a local bingo club. The intruders
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It is not low pay
IT is an untruth that council workers are on low pay, ie refuse wagon drivers earn in excess of £300 per week for less than a 40 hour week. Being a Class I driver, I would not earn this figure for 60 hours per week, and have a lot more responsibility.
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Millennium memories
HAVE you any Millennium Memories that you would like to share with BEN readers? As part of this newspaper's Millennium celebrations, we are publishing a bound volume of poetry submitted by readers. And we want the main theme of this handsome book to highlight
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Working on the wildside
By Karen Stephen "WEAR warm clothes and a pair of wellies - oh, and bring something waterproof as well." On hearing this sound advice I realised I would not be spending my working day, as is usual, on a comfy chair in front of a word processor. No, today
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May claims valued photo
A WOMAN has been reunited with a treasured 46-year-old photograph, thanks to the BEN. The picture was shown in our Wednesday edition after a couple found it in Bolton town centre and brought it into our Churchgate office. It took less than 24 hours for
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Travels on a donkey
I DON'T like watching holiday programmes on the telly. It's not the undaunting prospect of soaking up the sun in a hot resort that leaves me cold. It's the fact that to get there I'd have to board a plane. And I'm sorely frightened of flying. I avoid
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Homeless cash boost 'wonderful news'
A BOLTON housing chief today declared that a cash boost to tackle homelessness was "wonderful news." Cllr Noel Spencer, chairman of Bolton's housing committee, said he was "absolutely thrilled" with the announcement yesterday by Local Government Minister
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Ready steady Bo
BO Hansen is ready to answer the Wanderers call. The Denmark international is expected at the Reebok on Monday to complete his long-awaited £1 million transfer from Brondby. The 26-year-old striker, currently the 12-goal top scorer with the Danish champions
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Trader's fury over £20 shoplift fine
FURIOUS shopkeeper Kathleen Kelly has hit out at a "ludicrous" £20 fine for a shoplifter. The angry businesswoman, who ploughed all her Norweb redundancy into buying her convenience store, Personal Care, claims shoplifters are causing misery along Chorley
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Bananas about Robbie
GIRLS have been going bananas for a fruit and veg seller - who is a dead-ringer for Robbie Williams. Mark Starkie, 21, is so strikingly like the pop singer he is mobbed by girls wanting to PEEL his clothes off. He even finds he is STALKED by admirers,
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Reunion interest
DID you attend Smithills Moor School, starting in September 1979 and leaving in May 1984? Do you realize it is now 15 years since we left? Would you be interested in a reunion? If so, please contact me, Stella Unsworth (nee Everard) on 01204 694791. Mrs
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Rivals clash over charity collections
ANGRY charity bosses have hit out at counterparts from a rival town over a controversial cash collection. Members of Bolton Shopmobility were left seething after representatives from Burnley Shopmobility pulled in the pounds inside a Bolton superstore
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What about the victims?
I refer to your article on Jack Straw and his formalising the abolition of the death penalty in the UK. When is the European Commission on Human Rights going to do something for the victims of the criminals, the many who suffer terrible and untimely deaths
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Works tragedy firm fined £35,000
A FIRM has been fined £35,000 following the death of one of their workers. Foreman John Ince, 62, died in May when he was pinned against a wall by a heavy paper bale which toppled from a forklift truck at the East Lancashire Paper Mill, Radcliffe. Mr
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From the BEN files
25 YEARS AGO STUDENT teachers shivered in the snow to demonstrate against college lecturers and colleagues attending a strip show in Bolton last night. They carried placards saying that the show was degrading. Then as lecturers arrived for the strip show
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Coming back to my roots
JANETTE Jenkins is a Bolton-born author who is going places - back home to Bolton from Yorkshire for a start. Having spent her adulthood away, she and her family are moving to Chorley New Road, Lostock, at Easter. These are exciting times for the novelist
