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Stranger on the sofa
I GOT a bit of a shock the other morning when I came downstairs after yet another night of disturbed sleep. I mean it's really getting beyond a joke, this inability of mine to snooze through for a solid seven hours. True, I drop off all right after I've
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Hard-up council's traffic calm call
DEVELOPERS could be forced to put traffic calming measures on new estates before they are given planning permission. Highways chiefs do not have enough money to put road humps on all the streets where they would like to slow down traffic. So they plan
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Trial by citizen jury for Leigh school holidays
A "CITIZENS' jury" is set to decide whether school holidays in the Leigh, Tyldesley and Atherton areas should be changed. Currently there are EIGHT different holiday patterns for schools in the Wigan metropolitan borough. Now council chiefs are considering
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Fire probe firemen suspended
SIX part-time firemen at the centre of a probe by detectives into hoax calls and arson have been suspended from duty. The firemen, all based at Horwich Fire Station, have been relieved of duties until police investigations are completed. They were arrested
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£1.8m NHS claims bill alarms MPs
WIGAN and Bolton Health Authority's total payout of more than £1.8 million in compensation and court costs for medical mistakes last year has sparked concern from local MPs. The figure, revealed in the BEN last week, was one of the highest in the country
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Filthy frontages
I HAVE never seen the site in Farnworth mentioned by Mr G K Brown in his letter in Tuesday's BEN, but I will nominate one in Bolton town centre. To my own knowledge the corner of Knowsley Street and Bark Street has been blighted by derelict and filthy
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Tories'
choice THE FORMATION of a new political party, the Pro Euro Conservative party means that potential Conservative voters in the North West in the Euro elections in June will have a choice of two kinds of Conservatives to vote for. One, the new party, is
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Animals come second
THERE has been a great deal of publicity recently about the efficacy or otherwise of the experiments on rats conducted by Dr Arpad Pusztai at the Rowett Research Institute. There does indeed appear to be real doubt about the safety of genetically modified
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"How long will 'life' be for triple killer?
REPORTS will be prepared to establish how long the killer of a Bolton mum and her two children will languish in jail. Yesterday Peter Christopher Hall, 34, received three life sentences for the brutal killings of Celeste Bates and her sons, Daniel, eight
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Praise all round
THE TORY opposition has been unable to provide any convincing criticism of Labour's spending proposals for the coming year at both local and national level. There has been a remarkable unanimity of praise for the priorities announced by the Chancellor
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Disappointed Mayor
HOW can people who are meant to represent Westhoughton complain when we raised nearly £7,000 for the Westhoughton Mayor's Charity last year? Not one "well done" or "thank you". All I got was criticism at last Monday's council meeting at Westhoughton.
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A matter of civic pride
I READ with interest the comments of the new Bishop of Bolton, Canon David Gillett, (BEN, March 16) backing both the town's bid to become a Millennium City and Bolton Institute's drive for University status. Bolton MBC have also announced their plans
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You can't beat a good book
By Irma Heger MEN do read books. Bolton Wanderers' midfielder Claus Jensen's favourite read is John Grisham's The Rainmaker. And Royal Bolton Hospital charge nurse Frank Livesey enjoys a good thriller by Tom Clancy. Now their faces, seen reading a book
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From the BEN files
25 YEARS AGO NO 'three bob' loaf - yet. For a Government subsidy to keep down the price of bread was announced in the Commons this afternoon by Mrs Shirley Williams, Secretary for Prices and Consumer Protection. So for the present, the standard loaf will
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Life and death
Karen Stephen dissects the duties of Bolton's coroner TO the uninitiated, it seems the work of a coroner revolves around scenes of death and multitudes of dissected internal organs. But those of you who watched Ch 4's The Coroner, a 'behind the scenes
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WHAT'S ON 21/3/99 22/3/99MUSIC & DANCE
SUNDAY CEILI Dancing with Michael Kierans, St Edmund's Church Hall, off Deansgate, 7.30pm-9.30pm. MONDAY BOLTON Music Service is holding various activities at different centres. At Bolton Music Centre, The Deane School, New York, Bolton: Bolton Youth
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Todd backs left out Frandsen
COLIN Todd believes Per Frandsen's omission from the Denmark squad could be the spur for the Wanderers' midfield driving force to click back into top gear. Frandsen's form has dipped from his usual sky-high standard in recent weeks and his exclusion from
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Think again plea on incapacity benefits
A LOCAL MP is urging the Government to think again on incapacity benefit. Bury North MP David Chaytor is alarmed that many disabled pensioners with more than £50 a week in income will lose out. He is also concerned that disabled people who had paid national
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Order of Buffaloes
I am trying to contact someone from the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes. My grandfather was a member and, I believe some of his brothers. I have his membership, medal and a large certificate. I am told that they are on Deane Road in Bolton. Thanking
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Brothers are a cut above!
TWO stylish Bolton brothers who want to take men's hairdressing firmly into the Millennium have won an award that puts them ahead of the rest. Anthony and Lillo Tramontana were among 10 local hairdressers who figured in a special advertising feature in
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Our chip shop is just champion!
S ATISFIED customers have been writing to the BEN claiming their chip shop is the best . . . And it's all after Peter Saunders of Crompton Way, Bolton, set the fat flying by saying The Chippy in Thicketford Road served the best fish and chips. He wrote
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Fared badly
WHILE Cllr Kirkpatrick is eulogising about how well pensioners have done out of the budget, he should look at the small print. Single mothers are being helped, but there is another group who have fared rather badly. These are single grandmothers - single
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BACK TO THE FUTURE
A CLICKING turnstile salvaged from the demolition of Burnden Park is to become the gateway to a fantastic journey through the glorious history of Bolton Wanderers to the evolution of the fabulous Reebok Stadium. It will be all hi-tech and inter-action
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Fighting for a millenium people park
PEOPLE in Horwich are rallying together in a bid to create a park for the Millennium. The leading lights behind the campaign are members of the Courts Residents' Association, which represents residents in the Craven Court area. And they've already made
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Flawed claim
AS a military historian, I was interested to read the comments made by Mr Barlow in the BEN and I wish to make the following points: Britain has never wholly relied on a strong "regular"army. In every major war and conflict this century, and in those
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Ray's tracks to a much fitter way of life
THE man who famously discribes his former self as "I would get in the car to go to the loo" is about to run his fourth London marathon. It took Ray Collett seven heart attacks in two days to change his lifestyle ten years ago. Now he is fitter than ever
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On patrol in the badlands
By Paul Berry THE peace process in Northern Ireland is on a knife-edge, with terrorists refusing to give up their weapons and the decision to create a political assembly postponed. The terrorist threat in much of the province has subsided, allowing the
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Blot on the landscape...Cllr Wilkinson, fuming over the massive crater
By Julie Freer FEARS are growing that a massive crater could be "left open for years" following a financial crisis at an opencast mining company. The hole which is around 100ft wide and 50ft deep is on the Bag Lane opencast site off Lower Leigh Road,
