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Volunteering opportunities
REGARDING the letter 'Charity did not shine for me' (BEN: October 10). May I offer advice and support to the individual concerned. First of all, volunteering should be a positive experience, and we at the Volunteer Bureau try to ensure this happens. Secondly
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Basically, I really am so fed up with this word...
HAVE any other readers noticed a certain word that is slowly infiltrating almost all spoken English, sometimes totally out of context with the rest of the sentence and increasingly used by seemingly rash and intelligent people. The word I refer to is
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Deal for Marshall?
IAN Marshall could get the deal he is looking for this week when he goes into his latest round of contract talks with Sam Allardyce. The 34-year-old striker-cum-defender strengthened his claim for more security than his current pay-per-play arrangement
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FROM THE OTHER SIDE: Colin Lee's view
WE are disappointed with the result because we felt we did enough to have got someting out of it. But that's the way our season has been going while everything seems to be going right for Bolton. They are getting good results. We got into some very good
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MATCH REPORT: Wanderers in quality street
Wanderers 2, Wolves 1 IT isn't always the best team that wins a football match but the team with the best players in the key positions usually stands a pretty good chance, writes BEN Chief Soccer Writer Gordon Sharrock. Wanderers have played better than
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REVIEW: Premier league performance
Sand Castles, Bolton Little Theatre. Runs until October 21 AN Englishman's beach hut is his castle. And the sand outside it is his territory. That's the basic idea behind a new play by Bob Larbey premiered at Bolton Little Theatre on Saturday as part
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REVIEW: A New Leaf & Costa Del Packet, Trinity Players, Trinity Church Hall, Farnworth
TRINITY Players repeated the successful formula of presenting two short plays with refreshments in between on Saturday. The large audiences at the matinee and evening performances proved how popular this is with audiences. Both plays were light comedies
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REVIEW: Dark and brooding tale of doomed Anna
Anna Karenina, Octagon Theatre, Bolton. Runs until November 4 THIS stylish production makes for compelling theatre. The dark and brooding intensity of the tale about the doomed Anna is portrayed with passion. Susie Trayling is outstanding as Anna, the
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Talking of the Internet revolution
THE second day of Business Voice, the Bolton and Bury Business Exhibition, featured a free Innovation and Technology conference. Visitors keen to know more about the Internet revolution attended a series of seminars. Organisers say the two-day exhibition
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Theatre on a plate at annual 'do'
MOSAIC, the Women in Business Forum of Bolton and Bury Chamber, has celebrated its third year of success at an annual dinner with a difference. The event took the form of a theatre dinner. The New Pack Horse in Bolton provided the dinner and Silk Purse
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Company doing its level best
RADCLIFFE-based Trumeter Co Ltd has bought the worldwide manufacturing and marketing rights to a patented new range of spirit levels. Trumeter has sub-contracted manufacture to Peter Miles Engineering Ltd of Leigh which has acquired an additional factory
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Paul calls it an ACAS day
THE North-west director of ACAS, Paul Oliver, has left to pursue other interests. Mr Oliver, who started as a Manpower Adviser, has headed the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service in the region for the last six years. He remembers the days of
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Fan has heart attack at match
SWIFT action by staff and supporters at Bolton Wanderers' match on Saturday saved the life of a man who collapsed with a heart attack. The middle-aged man, who was sitting in the West stand at the Reebok Stadium, became ill during the game against Wolves
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Bad weather halts missing diver search
THE search for missing Westhoughton diver Albert Paxford has again failed to locate his body. Det Con Paxford, a detective with Greater Manchester police, disappeared while diving on a wreck off Burrow Head, near Stranraer, on the Scottish coast on October
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Emergency crews rescue off-road bikers
AN air ambulance and mountain rescue teams rescued two off-road motorcyclists who collided on waste land in Leigh yesterday. The riders are thought to have crashed head on while cycling through old coal tips off Plank Lane. Ambulance crews unable to make
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Smartcard is a smart idea
GREATER Manchester could be held up as a showcase area to demonstrate the benefits of smartcard technology for public transport users. The Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Authority have put a bid to the government to develop another similar schemeas
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We only have pies for you
A FORMER Bolton man's boyhood love of pies is helping tomorrow's supermodels dump their anorexic image. Johnny Atkinson, who is now a director of London based graphic design company North Creative was asked to help launch a top model agency's new signings
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SOCCER: Danny's the boy as Boro sink Marine
"IT'S a tie we can win," said Radcliffe Boro manager Kevin Glendon going into the FA Cup third qualifying round trip to Unibond Premier Division Marine and how right he was. Boro totally outplayed their higher division opponents on their own turf for
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What's On for the family
CORNERHOUSE, Oxford Street, Mcr. Ring 0161 228 7621. Action packed arts programme for youngsters aged 11-16. Every Sat at 11.30am, cost £2.50. MARTIN MERE WILDFOWL AND WETLANDS TRUST, Burscough. Ring 01704 895181. DOCK ROAD EDWARDIAN PUMPING STATION,
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MUSIC AND DANCE VENUES
LADYBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTRE, Beaumont Drive, Bolton. Line dancing, beginners/intermediate classes, every Saturday 7.15pm to 10.30pm. Admission £2. THE GREEN ROOM, Whitworth Street West, Manchester. Ring 0161 950 5900. KILHEY COURT HOTEL, Chorley Road,
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EVENTS
BOLTON CHA RAMBLING CLUB, Saturday October 21, car ramble to Barley, Blacko Tower, Black Moss. 12 miles, 10.30am start. For more details ring Bolton 697610. MOSES GATE COUNTRY PARK, Farnworth. Bolton Countryside Service has organised a series of countryside
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Emergency crews rescue off-road bikers
AN AIR ambulance and mountain rescue teams were called out after two off-road motorcyclists collided on waste land in Leigh yesterday. The riders are thought to have crashed head on while cycling through old coal tips off Plank Lane. Ambulance crews unable
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Arson attack at cricket club
ARSONISTS caused thousands of pounds worth of damage by setting alight storage huts at a Bolton cricket club. Firefighters were called to Astley Bridge Cricket Club's Sharples Park ground at 5.30pm on Friday to be faced with two outhouses that engulfed
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Up up and away for charity
THREE intrepid Bolton friends are going up in the world to help young cancer sufferers . . . quite literally. The trio intend to climb part of the highest mountain in the world next month to raise money for a children's cancer charity. Pals John Taylor
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Charity offers chance of a dream Christmas trip
A CHARITY is offering two courageous children from Bolton the chance to experience a dream Christmas trip to Lapland. The Wishing Well Appeal, which helps boys and girls who may only have a short life expectancy or are suffering from life-threatening
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Go surfing in Horwich
PEOPLE around the world are being given an insight of life in Horwich -- at the click of a "mouse." The town's website has now gone live and is already proving to be a popular and unusual attraction. Town council chiefs hopes plenty of potential tourists
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School shining example of group's work
A SHINING example of NCH's work in the North-west comes in the form of Bolton's Crowthorn School in Edgworth. The school, funded by NCH Action for Children through Bolton Council, works with children aged between seven and 16 who have emotional, behavioural
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CONCERTS
ALBERT HALLS, Victoria Square, Bolton. The Magic of the Musicals, featuring some of the very best songs from the hit West End musicals. Stars Marti Webb and Dave Willetts. Friday October 20. Also, Steeleye Span, Thursday November 2. Ring Bolton 334400
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Rain's a pain
WHERE is all this rain coming from? And they have the nerve to send one, a water bill. When I was very young we used to sing -- Rain, rain go away, come again another day. And it certainly is. No wonder people go away for the sunshine. We the public won't
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Tell us where the axe will fall
I THINK it is excellent news that Bolton is to receive an extra £11 million for its deprived areas from the Labour Government. Unfortunately, it is public spending like this which will be under threat should the Tories win at the next General Election
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Horrified that the gipsy caravans are back
SPEAKING on behalf of a number of residents of Herons Way and Dunlin Close, may I say that we are horrified to learn that gipsy caravans have once again returned to the council-owned land at the rear of Bolton Technical College on Manchester Road, Bolton
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Difference between Labour and Tories
AS a life-time member of the Labour Party, I never thought I would find a speech by a Tory leader at the Conservative Party Conference amusing. But I really laughed at William Hague's speech a week last Thursday. I had a lot of respect for past party
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Brown's bizarre pension sums
I WISH the Government would give more warning before announcing stupendous news -- 'Pensioners to get £2.25 extra per week from April next year'. I was almost flattened by an unruly mob of pensioners doing the conga (zimmers and all) across Moor Lane
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Hague would make the Major years seem tame
ALBERT Hornby, what are you on about? Are you Tory leader William Hague's poodle, or what? I have never heard so much propagandist drivel in my life. Why the BEN allowed him to produce an essay I'll never know. You would have thought from Mr Hornby's
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Dictators and the real victims
MRS GAULT is obviously a woman of good will, but, unfortunately she seems a little confused about the situation in Iraq. The only way to stop the suffering of the Iraqi people is to (a) lift the sanctions; (b) stop the illegal bombing of the country;
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Communication really is vital at all levels...
PARENTS are overjoyed when their baby learns its first words. It means that a new level of communication has begun. But, no matter how old we are, learning to talk is vital if we are going to have strong personal relationships. The trouble is that many
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Strangled woman: Police name man
MURDER squad detectives today named a man they want to speak to after a mother was found strangled at her Bolton home. Police are concerned for the safety of Paul Sharpe, 30, of Wellington Road, Bury, after his girfriend Sarah Jane Widdup was found murdered
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SAM'S VIEW: Quality goals won us the points
TWO quality goals won us the three points, without any shadow of a doubt. The timing of the first one was just what was needed because at that point Wolves just had the upper hand on us. They certainly caused us a lot of trouble on their corners. But
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Forest look for home comforts
WHATEVER the result at the Reebok tomorrow night, David Platt will head back to Robin Hood country desperately in need of some home comfort. For while Forest have amassed a respectable away record this season, their unimpressive home form has made life
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United's Magnificent Seven saved them a fortune
RYAN Giggs, Paul Scholes, David Beckham, Gary and Phil Neville, Nicky Butt and Wes Brown ... hardly names at the top of the popularity charts with Wanderers fans. But ask any football manager in the land and he'd have any one of them in his squad - never
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Take your partners and reap rewards
THE Department of Trade and Industry is encouraging North-west organisations to consider the development of innovative partnerships. The DTI's four-year Partnership Fund programme offers awards of up to £50,000 to design and implement improved methods
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'E' for effective . . . that's e-commerce
A MAJORITY of European executives expect e-commerce to bring far-reaching change to the way they currently do business. It is predicted that the Internet will revolutionise supply chains with today's e-commerce pioneers beginning to demonstrate that it
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Called to the bar for studies
A BOLTON hostelry has a new line in pub pursuits. Man & Scythe landlord John Jewitt has added a unique adult education programme to popular attractions such as quiz nights and darts sessions. Since January, he has organised such things as a basic
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Nichola on hand
BALD artist Nichola Holt will be at Welch Mill Carpets to sign autographs and answer questions about her time in Channel 4's Big Brother House next Saturday. She will also pose for pictures with anyone who spends over £64. The multi-pierced Bolton lass
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Thugs steal boy's trousers
A terrified 13-year-old boy was forced to hand over the trousers he was wearing during a robbery in a Bolton street. The two thieves who threatened him stole the youngster's trousers when they discovered he did not have any cash. The boy was confronted
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Deano KO blow for Forest game
GOAL star Dean Holdsworth is cursing his luck today after being struck down in his prime - by grass cuttings. The in-form striker, who put Wanderers back on the winning trail with a sensational fourth goal of the season against Wolves on Saturday, is
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Coach honour
DAVE Evitts, who coached Bolton swimmers Anthony Howard and Rob Greenwood to Olympic Games selection has been nominated for the Greater Manchester Coach of the Year Award, which will be presented on Monday, November 30 at the new Commonwealth Pool, Manchester
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'Mighty Atom' plea
I AM writing some profiles for the BEN on Sporting Characters of Bolton. One person I am interested in is a darts player from the 50s/early 60s. He was known as the 'Mighty Atom'. Can anyone, relative or friend, please get in touch with me. Also any other
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Inter-league cricket knockout
THE Bolton Cricket League face an away test against the Saddleworth League in the first round of next season's MEN inter-league knockout. If they win they could face the Bolton Association in the semi-final although the Association face a tough first
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SHAKERS: Mauled by sharp-shooting Lion
THE full value of having a proven goalscorer in your side was never more graphically shown than in Saturday's game at the New Den. In centre-forward Neil Harris the Lions have one of the most sought-after properties in the lower divisions and on this
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From the BEN files
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, October 5, 1975 IT was enough to send a tremble through even the stiffest of upper lips at the Royal British Legion in Astley Bridge, Bolton. In less time than it takes to sink a pint, 185 gallons of beer went to waste
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THEATRES
OCTAGON THEATRE, Bolton. Ring Bolton 520661. PALACE THEATRE, Manchester. Circus of Horrors, to 14 Oct. Ring 0161 242 2524. OPERA HOUSE, Manchester. Runs until Saturday Nov 11, The Phantom of the Opera. Tel 0161 242 2524. LIBRARY THEATRE, Manchester. Ring
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OUT OF TOWN
NORTH PIER THEATRE, BLACKPOOL, The Grumbleweeds, with Stu Francis. Runs to October 24. Seats £10. Also, Hale and Pace with support from Hilary O'Neil and Steve Rawlings. Wednesday to Friday 8pm and Saturday at 7pm. Also, Roy 'Chubby' Brown, Saturday at
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LIVE MUSIC VENUES AND EVENTS
BAROC CAFE BAR, Halliwell Road, Bolton. Tuesday October 17 Dave Gee, Wednesday October 18 live jazz, Thursday October 19 karaoke. Ring Bolton 847300. BURY MET CAFE BAR, Market Street, Bury. HORWICH RMI CLUB, Chorley New Road, Horwich. Ring Bolton 468085
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What's On in and around the Bolton area on Tuesday
LEISURE, SPORT, KEEP FIT BOLTON Excel, Lower Bridgeman Street, tel: 334456: 50+ bowls, 10am-12 noon; circuits, 6pm-7pm and 7pm-8pm. HORWICH Leisure Centre, Victoria Road, tel: 334488: main pool, 7am-7pm; step class, 12 noon-1pm; aerobics, 1pm-2pm; ladies
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GALLERIES AND EXHIBITIONS
ARC GALLERY STORE, Oldham Street, Manchester. Mon to Sat 10am to 6pm. Sun noon to 5pm. Adm free. Ring 0161 831 7454. ASTLEY CHEETHAM ART GALLERY , Trinity Street, Stalybridge. Open Mon to Fri (not Thurs) 1pm to 7.30pm, Sat 9am to 4pm. Tel 0161 338 2708
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Zany duo spring wacky wedding surprise on guests
A send off to remember! Martin Lowther and his bride Honor Fallon with ushers Paul Curnock who took on the chicken role and Dylan Jones who decided to dress as a rabbitFANCY THAT! THE dresscode at a Bolton wedding certainly turned heads when two wacky
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Soccer hooligans' web of fear
SOCCER hooligans have turned to the web to try to organise violence at matches, the BEN can reveal. The thugs from Bolton are exchanging intimidating messages with rival supporters on the Internet in an attempt to drum up trouble before matches. But their
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Drugs 'greatest threat' to children
PEOPLE in Bolton believe drugs are the greatest single threat to a happy childhood, a children's charity survey has revealed. But despite this, two thirds of those surveyed nationwide are optimistic about their children's future. The results of child
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Police are a match for fans
IT was one of Bolton Wanderers biggest home games of the season so far. Thousands of fans descended on the Reebok for the 'Superwhites' clash with Wolverhampton Wanderers. It is a footballing fixture which police chiefs had their concerns about -- a Category
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PUB MUSIC NIGHTS
BAROC CAFE BAR, Halliwell Road, Bolton. Monday October 16 students' night, Tuesday October 17 Dave Gee, Wednesday October 18 live jazz, Thursday October 19 karaoke. THE WRIGHTS ARMS, Belmont Road, Bolton. For details of all events ring Bolton 811206.
