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RUGBY: Leigh shoot for the top
LEIGH Centurions will be shooting for the top over Easter. Now firmly secured two points clear in third place in the Northern Ford Premiership, the cock-a-hoop Centurions want to end the Easter programme on top of the table. "I've just spoken to the players
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Abuse project gets £74,000 cash boost
A BOLTON-based Barnardo's project which helps Asian women and children fleeing domestic violence is set to receive a £74,000 cash boost. The Barnardo's Phoenix Project offers advice, support and counselling to Asian women, children and young people experiencing
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Driver in M61 missile terror
A 12-YEAR-OLD boy has been arrested and interviewed by police after a metal bar was hurled from a motorway bridge through the windscreen of a fast-moving car. The windscreen of the Ford Mondeo shattered, with the 18-inch-long bar embedded in the glass
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999 CREW RETURN TO ROMANIA
A MERCY dash to Romania by Bolton's big-hearted fire fighters will once again bring cheer to a crumbling community. Seven years after Bolton's 999 service first sprang into action to revamp an orphanage, the mercy men and women are planning a return journey
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WANDERERS: Jensen worry
WANDERERS midfielder Claus Jensen today returned injured from international duty. The Reebok playmaker strained a thigh in training with Denmark's under-21 squad last week and Colin Todd was waiting to learn the extent of the damage today. Wanderers new
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Teenagers questioned over death of 'lovely man'
SEVEN teenagers have been questioned by detectives following the death of a Horwich father-of-two on Friday night. Kenneth Mills, 50, intervened when trouble erupted among a group of young people outside the Nightbar Pizza Kebab Grill in Lee Lane in Horwich
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RE-LAUNCH FOR
AEROSPACE CONSORTIUM The Consortium of Lancashire Aerospace has had a regional re-launch. It will go into the new Millennium as the North West Aerospace Alliance and will represent members' interests nationally and internationally. The Consortium, which
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BOXING: Lights go out for Thompson
BEATEN champion Carl Thompson is demanding a rematch with Johnny Nelson after the controversial ending to his world title showdown in Derby on Saturday night. The Bolton fighter was due to meet with promoter Frank Warren today to discuss his future and
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THIS WEB OF DECEIT COULD NET AWARD
Internet whodunnit attracts 26,000 surfers A BOLTON writer is in line for an on-line award after creating an interactive story on the Internet. Andrew Oldham and computer buff pal Michael Fairclough put the whodunnit on the web in December and it has
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Chordial Showtime,
The Albert Halls, Bolton A CAPACITY crowd cheered the performers in this lively evening of entertainment - and rightly so. Bolton Barbershop Harmony Club hosted the show which presented not only some of the best in barbershop singing but musician Alan
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WHATS ON TUESDAY 30.03.99
THEATRE, MUSIC & DANCE: BOLTON Burns Club, dancing class, Social Centre for the Blind, 7.45pm. BOLTON Music Service activities at Bolton Music Centre, The Deane School, New York, Bolton include Bolton Youth Stage Band, 7.30pm-9.30pm; Bolton Beginners
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Safety first firework campaign
ALL Bolton shops which sell fireworks could be given annual safety inspections. Council environmental health chiefs are to push for the Greater Manchester Fire Service to carry out safety checks every year. It is part of a series of measures concerning
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Burglary suspect arrested after rooftop sit-in
A SUSPECTED burglar tried to escape angry residents last night by climbing onto a house roof and sitting on a chimney pot for more than an hour. As police, fire and ambulance crews gathered with astonished neighbours around the property on Glaister Lane
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Binmen are treating me . . . like rubbish!
A BOLTON man claims binmen are victimising him because he reported them for littering. William Kelly, of Darley Street, Farnworth, says he believes he is at the target of an "awkwardness" campaign. In the latest incident, binmen refused to take a small
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Black letter day for theatre staff
A FURTHER shadow has been cast over the future of 18 jobs at the crisis-hit Octagon Theatre. Almost a third of the workforce at the Howell Croft South theatre are set to lose their jobs in a cost-cutting exercise. This week, theatre bosses have sent out
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Young mum's home wreck agony
A YOUNG mum and her child were left homeless by the gas blast which ripped through an adjoining flat in Little Hulton last Monday. Single mum Karen Preston and her son Luke, four, were forced to move to her mum's house, after the explosion wrecked her
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Second huge estate IS planned for town
A DEVELOPER has admitted that a second "super estate" IS being planned in Westhoughton. Bellway Homes will be putting in a planning application next month for "a substantial part" of the Bowlands Hey site, off Wigan Road. They have not specified how many
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RUGBY: Craig ignores injury to lead Leigh romp
IT doesn't take a rocket scientist to see just why a fully fit Craig Dean is crucial to the Centurions. Scrum-half Dean was in dazzling form at Craven Park yesterday as Leigh cruised to a fourth successive Northern Ford Premiership victory. Dean came
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Robbie's £1m to make film in Bolton
SINGER Robbie Williams has been offered £1 million to make his acting debut in a multi-million pound movie which will be shot in Bolton. The former Take That star has been offered the lead role in Addict, a film based on the autobiography of Stephen Smith
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Farewell toast to Bolton Borough
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, March 29, 1974 THE toast to the County Borough of Bolton was drunk for the last time last night. It was proposed by the final Mayor of Bolton, Ald. Henry Devenish. More than 200 guests assembled in the Town Hall to
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Chemists open in the Bolton area:
WED MARCH 31: Tesco, Mansell Way, Horwich (5.30pm to 6.30pm). GOOD FRIDAY: 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); Hunt and Marsden, Asda, Brackley Street
