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ATHLETICS: Logue has the world at his feet
HORWICH athlete James Logue is making a radical switch to his usual international plans this year. But he should know which direction to take - he's a world class orienteerer. The 30-year-old Westhoughton High School teacher goes to the World Orienteering
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More secure units needed
WHILE it is easy to agree that no child should be put into unsuitable secure accommodation, the victims of the 12-year-old boy with a record of robbery, burglary and theft might think differently. Bolton magistrates instead remanded the boy into care
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Life's irritations
I'D like to tell you some of the things about my wife that irritate me. And for the first time in my married life I don't fear the consequences of what she would do to me if she ever found out what I'm about to divulge. Have I suddenly shed my meek and
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Playgroup gets the vote of the inspectors
A BOLTON playgroup has been given top marks by classroom watchdogs. Ofsted inspectors failed to find anything to criticise during a recent visit to St Thomas of Canterbury play group. They said the playgroup based on Eastbourne Grove, Heaton had addressed
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Sewage dispute blocks builders
A BUILDER will be ordered to stop work on a controversial Bolton development. Planning chiefs will tell developers Crosby Homes NW Ltd that they cannot carry on with an 11-home site at Regent Road, Lostock. They will not be allowed to re-start work until
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Trying to find Mark
I WOULD like you to help me find a person I met on holiday. I would like to keep in touch with him. I met him in Tenerife on June 18 then on June 25 at Chichester just outside Portsmouth. His name is Mark. He is 27 years old and lives with friends. He
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Fluoride in milk move to improve dental health
BOLTON MP David Crausby wants fluoride added to school milk rather than the public water supply to improve the dental health of children. He believes that, by that method, parents would have a clear choice whether they want their children to take it.
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An excellent exhibition
I would like to congratulate Bolton Museum on providing a wonderful printmaking workshop to run alongside the current exhibition of Madagascar: A World Under Threat. The tutor/artist Christopher Robinson was excellent - bringing out artistic talents none
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CRICKET: generation game
DEREK White and Nick Woods may be at the opposite ends of the age scale but when it comes to scoring runs, the Horwich duo are one and the same. The two batsmen are the oldest and youngest players in the club's second team but both cracked centuries in
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CRICKET: Bradshaw, Egerton in line to meet again
BRADSHAW and Egerton are on course to repeat last year's final of the Hamer Cup. The draw has kept the two sides apart in tomorrow's two semi-finals but respective opponents Little Lever and Kearsley will be doing their utmost to prevent last year's finalists
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Right to catch late buses
AT a time when the Government is urging greater use of public transport, it's perfectly correct that one of Bolton's major bus operators should be financially penalised and banned for peristent unreliability. It cost Stagecoach Ribble around £120,000
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What's on in and around Bolton
Sunday CEILI Dancing with Michael Kierans, St Edmund's Church Hall, off Deansgate, 7.30pm-9.30pm. CLUB 40+, sequence dancing for separated, divorced and widowed people, Rivington Suite, Horwich Leisure Centre, 8pm-11pm. Admission £3, non-members £2.50
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Paving slab and axe used in post raid
MASKED raiders armed with a paving slab and an axe made off with cash during a raid on a Bolton post office. The two men wearing balaclavas stormed into Harwood Post Office, Hardy Mill Road just after lunchtime yesterday. One of the men who had a two
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Litter louts ruin big spending spree
FARNWORTH shoppers have been blasted for consistently dropping litter in and around the million pounds worth of improvements made to the town centre. Mr Stan Haslam, of St James Street, Farnworth, claims local people are turning their own town into a
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Maureen's job is saved at 11th hour
A BOLTON charity worker who faced losing her job as a result of funding cuts has been saved by a £30,000 grant. Maureen Winterbottom's post as the senior family support co-ordinator at Bolton-based national charity Vision Aid was under threat. But a donation
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I WONDER if any of your readers played in the Delph Hill Methodist football team in the 40s?
We were in Section C as I recall (there was no Section D!!), and it has been my one regret that I never got a photograph of those 11 'stalwarts', who, in spite of not very favourable results, always turned up on match days right up to the start of the
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No charge for the New Year
WHY oh why, do we have to fork out £20 to £50 to get into a pub on New Year's Eve? So it's the Millennium, so what? I live in Horwich which has a number of pubs. I know one pub which is charging £40 and another £80 for that evening. I like to have a bit
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Leave hedgehog nests in peace
AN ENCOURAGING number of people are willing to rush to the aid of a distressed animal, but at this time of year many nests of little hedgehogs are "rescued" unnecessarily. The trouble is that when their mothers disappear temporarily on a foraging expedition
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From the BEN files
25 YEARS AGO AT least 25 people were taken to hospital after a bomb blast this afternoon at the Tower of London. Ten of them, including five children, are seriously injured. ARCHBISHOP Makarios, the deposed President of Cyprus, arrived in Britain today
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New cash riddle hits club
A BOLTON social club has been rocked by new claims of missing money, just months after a large sum of cash allegedly disappeared. In February police were called in to investigate accusations that a "substantial" amount of money had disappeared from Breightmet
