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Ticket offer for Guys and Dolls
MEMBERS of Bolton Premier Productions are offering a "buy one get one free" ticket scheme for the opening night of their next show, Guys and Dolls. Tickets are now on sale for the musical which runs at the Albert Halls from October 9 to 13. The show will
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It's worth defending
CONGRATULATIONS to Anthony Boddy for his defence of the memorial and Victoria Square. This venue looks shabby enough, with ill kept gardens and strewn with rubbish, and does not require a circus tent to complete the picture of a town in Lancashire, or
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Fewer errors with parking attendants
I WRITE as a follow-on to my previous letter entitled "More misery on car park", published in the BEN, on Monday, August 27, where the parking machine only acknowledged £1.70 instead of £1.80, resulting in my £20 fine. My next step was to write to the
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What's wrong with portrait?
TO read about the ordeal of Hayley Cheetham's family really made me angry. What on earth can be objectionable about a gravestone with a portrait of the deceased? Those people are sick in their mind and they don't have a trickle of compassion in their
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Treatment is 'disgraceful'
AS a believer, I have for some time been disillusioned with the established Church. Two years ago, I decided I'd had enough. If ever my decision to "come out and be separate (2 Cor 6, 17) needed to be confirmed, then the church at Harwood and the Anglican
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Plastic lamp posts are not answer
I REALLY do not need a lecture from Peter Inch of Kentucky USA on the qualities of plastics that could be used in the production of lamp posts. It is piontless and irrelevant. The whole point of my letter was to make it clear that it shouldn't really
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Old People's Welfare Council celebrates its eighth birthday
IN November, 1954, Mrs Alice Stones lit the eight candles, one for each year, of the Bolton Old People's Welfare Council, which held a birthday rally and variety evening in the Victoria Hall. Also in the picture were the Mayor and Mayoress (Ald and Mrs
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Photography is child's play for Scouts
PHOTOGRAPHY can really be as simple as blinking. That's what Cubs from the 15th Bolton (St Maxentius, Bradshaw) had been learning in October, 1971, during a course run by Mr Stanley Covell, assistant Scout leader of the 30th (Halliwell Road Free Church
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Magistrate boss signs up
THE BEN's campaign to save Bolton's Magistrates Court has secured high-powered national support. Harry Mawdsley, chairman of the England and Wales Magistrates Association, threw his weight behind the campaign during a visit to the town. He joined 3,000
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Minister married top film stars
A COUPLE of weeks ago Mrs Lynn Beck, of Hollinhurst Drive, Lostock, wrote to ask if anyone remembered in the early 1960s a Bolton vicar conducting the marriage ceremony for film stars Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Well, without knowing a name I
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Bucket brigade in fire rescue drama
From the Evening News, August 20, 1976 25 YEARS AGO HOUSEWIVES and children formed a bucket brigade to stop a grass fire spreading to old folk's flats at Steele Gardens, Darcy Lever, Bolton. The women, two of them over 70, helped form a chain of firefighters
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Wrestlers are in big demand
From the Evening News, August 18, 1976 25 YEARS AGO WANTED: Athletic youngsters willing to undergo training to become wrestlers. Reward: Cash, travel, and possible fame. P.S. Must be female. And if you think you can fill the bill, and fancy the rewards
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Unfair treatment for "rat' families
From the Evening News, August 11, 1976 25 YEARS AGO THREE families who lived in rat-infested houses were unjustly treated by Bolton Council, says the local government ombudsman. The families called in the local affairs watchdog after being moved from
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First piloted return moon flight predicted
From the Evening News, August 14, 1976 25 YEARS AGO "The great riot of weather" that brought a drought to Western Europe and torrential rains to Eastern Europe is nearing its end, according to two Soviet cosmonauts They have been carrying out observations
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Police break up violence in square
From the Evening News, August 16, 1976 25 YEARS AGO POLICE ended violent clashes between members of the National Front and "anti-fascist" demonstrators in the Town Hall Square at the weekend. Hundreds of shoppers milled round in confusion as police fought
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Stuart Hall tops the TV poll
From the Evening News, August 27, 1976 25 YEARS AGO IT looks as though Stuart Hall, of "Look North" and "It's a Knockout" fame, is nearly everyone's favourite for "Sunniest Character on Telly" title following a poll by the BEN. One reader writes of him
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It's a family affair
WHEN James Harry Green set up his Westhoughton furniture shop in 1911 he would never have believed it would still be trading 90 years later. The carpenter would have been even more amazed if you told him the business he set-up before the First World War
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Renee's happy memories of Viking Street
WHEN Mrs Renee Ogden saw a short story in the Evening News recently (not in this column, I might add!), which described Viking Street as being in Burnden, she got out her pen and wrote to me. "Viking Street is not in Burnden, but in Great Lever," she
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Transport workers celebrate social club opening
From the Evening News, August 28, 1976 25 YEARS AGO THE Evening News was not published, because of industrial action by members of the National Graphical Association. Members on about 50 regional and local newspapers had been instructed not to handle
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Cut price bread war started by the Co-op
From the Evening News, August 9, 1976 25 YEARS AGO A ROW started today about the unauthorised pop festival at Rivington. Hundreds of fans arrived at the Bungalow grounds on Friday without telling the North West Water Authority who own the land. Rivington
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Broken ankle
A MOTORCYCLIST was taken to hospital after he was in collision with a parked Land Rover Discovery. David Hulme, aged 39, of May Avenue, Leigh, suffered a broken left ankle in the accident at the junction of Wingates Lane and Fawcetts Fold at 10pm yesterday
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Gun raid scare
RAIDERS brandishing a gun fled empty handed from a Deane Road shop in Bolton after being disturbed. The two men walked into the RV Store at 9.30pm yesterday and threatened the shopkeeper with a gun. But before they could steal anything, a customer walked
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Woman given oxygen
A WOMEN suffering from the effects of smoke following a pan fire was given oxygen by firemen called to her home in Hawthorn Crescent, Tottington, at 5pm yesterday. She refused hospital treatment. The cooker was slightly damaged.
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Lamp sparks first floor fire
FOUR people, including two children, fled to safety as fire destroyed a first floor bedroom. The Red Cross-run Fire Victim Support Unit was brought in to help the family after the blaze yesterday at 8.40pm. A spokesman for the fire brigade said the fire
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Penarski looks for local support
ALEK Penarski is banking on strong local support when he makes his comeback fight against Wayne "Mad Dog" Barker. Bolton's 46-year-old former light-heavyweight title contender returns to the ring for the first time in almost a decade on Monday when he
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Warburton's Bolton League: Walkden home in on title
WALKDEN are only one game away from securing their first Warburton's Bolton League title in seven years after a crushing eight wicket win over strugglers Little Lever on Sunday. They skittled the visitors out for a meagre 52 with John Smith taking 5-21
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Badminton ace dies at 39
ONE of the Bolton Badminton League's most talented players has died at the age of 39. Mark Brunnen had been ill for some time, and the funeral was being held today near his home in Billinge. He played his local league badminton at the Atherton Badminton
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3,000 go to Illuminations
From the Bolton Evening News, September 1, 1976 25 YEARS AGO THE Evening News was not published because of an ongoing national dispute with the National Graphical Association. 50 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, September 1, 1951 THREE thousand Bolton
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Rebel priest celebrates Mass
From the Evening News, September 4, 1976 25 YEARS AGO A REBEL priest, suspended from the Catholic Church, last night celebrated the outlawed, traditional Mass in a terraced house in Bury. More than 50 people packed into the makeshift chapel in the lounge
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Scouts went to Jamboree 50 years ago
MANY local men will have been members of the Scout movement when they were young - but not many of them will have had the opportunity to go to a World Scout Jamboree. However, just 50 years ago, a group of local Scouts went to the Austrian spa of Bad
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Town's memorial wrecked by vandals
From the Evening News, August 10, 1976 25 YEARS AGO THE Benjamin Hick memorial, one of Bolton's oldest and best-loved monuments, has been wrecked by vandals. The marble urn, its centre-piece, and three supports were found in fragments in the graveyard
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Fire brigades facing moorland fire crisis
From the Evening News, August 21, 1976 25 YEARS AGO WITH moorland around Bolton so tinder dry that it is like a "bomb waiting to explode", a crisis is facing local fire brigades which are stretched to the limit. "We appeal to the public to make every
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Housewives plan private taxi service
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, August 6, 1976 A GROUP of Bolton housewives are planning their own taxi transport in a bid to beat the "appalling" bus service to the Daubhill area. The women, who all wait for a bus at Shaw Street, near Bolton Institute
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Print dispute stopped paper appearing
From the Bolton Evening News, August 30, 1976 25 YEARS AGO THE Evening News was not published because of an ongoing national dispute with the National Graphical Association. 50 YEARS AGO From the Evening News , August 30, 1951 BOLTON Transport Department
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Hosepipe ban as drought gets worse
From the Evening News, August 13, 1976 25 YEARS AGO HOSEPIPES will be banned in the North-west from next Wednesday. It will then become an offence to use a hose for watering private gardens or washing cars. A North-west Water Authority spokesman said
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Teenager wins bid to become first female snooker league player
From the Evening News, August 3, 1976 25 YEARS AGO TEENAGER Jackie Stephen has won her bid to become Bolton's first woman snooker league player. Jackie was "unanimously accepted" by members of the Bolton and District Snooker League at their annual meeting
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Man terrified woman in takeaway
A SCHIZOPHRENIC man who failed to take his medication terrified a young woman in a takeaway food shop. He rushed in to the shop and threw a piece of wood over the counter on February 6. Michael Leonard had mistakenly thought he was well and had stopped
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Man fined for kick
A MAN was fined £118 after he kicked out at a youth because he claimed he felt threatened. Bury Magistrates were told Riccardo Vieira, aged 18, of Walker Avenue, Whitefield, who was alone, was walking towards a group of youths sitting down. One of the
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Syringe attack police appeal
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a robber threatened to stick a syringe in a man's throat unless he handed over cash. The thief -- who stole £45 -- forced the needle against the 26-year-old man's neck as he was walking along King Street in Bolton
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Firestarter on rampage alert
FIREFIGHTERS were called out eight times last night to deal with a series of arson attacks. Fire crews in Atherton had to deal with two blazing cars, scorched bushes, burning rubbish and fires in wheelie bins. At about 7.30pm firefighters were called
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Show blossoms, but soccer wins
THIS summer's sunnier weather attracted a higher than normal entry for this year's Grey Mare Dahlia Society show. The number of blooms on show was up by 40 per cent on last year's disappointing event. Show manager Philip Yates said it had been one of
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BEN HOTSHOTS
Darren Mahoney - Tempest United 8 Matt Toone Hindsford 5 Phil Hornby Atherton Town 7 Daniel Christie Atherton Town 5 Barry Massay Atherton LR 5 Jody Banim Radcliffe Boro 4 Barry Edwardson Daisy Hill 4 Paul Smith Breightmet United 4
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Three more out for crippled RMI
THERE'S no end in sight to the crippling injury list that has ruined Leigh RMI's start to the new Nationwide Conference campaign. Three more front-line player have been added to Steve Waywell's casualty list after Leigh's 3-1 defeat at Telford on Saturday
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Pioneer Sunday League: Battling Gatehouse grab the honours
IN the Premier Division of the Pioneer Sunday League, Gatehouse and Commercial had a tremendous game. Commercial went in front with a well taken goal from Waring, only to let the lead slip just before half time when Morgan equalised for Gatehouse. In
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Preece's problems don't ease up
A WEEKEND full-scale practice match involving every player in the first team squad told manager Andy Preece ... well, not that much really, writes Steve Canavan. There was plenty of endeavour and commitment, said the boss, but still the same failure to
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ASTLEY BRIDGE v FARNWORTH SC
Farnworth SC R Hope c Halton b Cuff ...21 S Roberts c Guest b Mahmood ...0 M Ashworth b Barry ...66 Powell c Tebay b Mahmood ...11 T Barrow lbw Barry ...0 D Eckersley lbw Barry ...0 S Marsh b Barry ...2 C Walsh lbw Barry ...9 D Rushton b Halton ...10
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EGERTON v FARNWORTH SC
Egerton Farrukh b Barrow ...9 M Ward not out ...57 F Neki lbw Barrow ...0 N Partington c Eckersley b Barrow ...15 J Mills run out ...7 J Sharples lbw Bradley ...6 P Burton c Marsh b Barrow ...9 S Dickinson not out ...9 Extras ...8 Total (for 6) ...130
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Production underway despite setbacks
MIKE Harding's Comfort and Joy is being performed by members of St Paul's Adlington Players fro m Wednesday to Saturday, September 12 to 15. The production is at the Adlington Community Centre on Railway Road, Adlington. Rehearsals are underway despite
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Grateful thanks
MAY I express through Readers' Letters, my sincere thanks to the person who picked up my bank card, which I had accidentally dropped in Deansgate, Bolton, on Tuesday, August 28, and handed it in to the receptionist at the issuing bank. This kind action
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They think it's all over - it isn't yet
ON behalf of the resident's committee, who are fighting to stop the application for the coal depot on Station Road, I thank Ian Hamilton for his congratulations (BEN, September 1). Unfortunately congratulations are premature at the present time. Although
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Staff get plaudits
THERE has been so much doom and gloom about the NHS, so I would like to thank all the staff at the Royal Bolton Hospital, especially Intensive Care, HDU, F5, F4, F3 and recently A4. We, like everyone else have had to wait on lists, but the attention and
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No wonder churches are emptying
I AM writing in response to the Diocese of Manchester's decision to have the engraved headstone of Mr and Mrs Cheetham's daughter, Hayley, removed as it is against the "law of the land". I am not educated in the Church of England's laws of the land, but
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3,000 go to Illuminations
25 YEARS AGO THE Evening News was not published because of an ongoing national dispute with the National Graphical Association. 50 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, September 1, 1951 THREE thousand Bolton people set off today to spend the first day of
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Standpipes brought in as town's water level drops
From the Evening News, September 3, 1976 25 YEARS AGO THE Evening News is glad to be back with its readers this evening for the first time in almost a week. We apologise that the paper is not as comprehensive as usual, but production only resumed this
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Jobs axe fear
TWO flagship Bolton companies are making job cuts. A consultation process has started with 180 Yates Group employees who work at Peter Yates House, Manchester Road. The numbers involved are expected to be known later this month. Also, dabs.com -- the
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Louts have hounded us out of town
A WOMAN who bought a dream retirement home in Bolton after waving goodbye to the Lake District is now desperate to leave the town after being terrorised by young louts. Linda Collinson, aged 56, bought her home on Blenheim Road, Breightmet, four years
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Author Bill's work comes home at last
THE widow of world-renowned author and playwright Bill Naughton spoke of her delight last night as a vast collection of his work went on public view in Bolton -- the town he loved. Manuscripts, letters, draft copies of plays and personal memoirs brought
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Toddler's railway line escape
From the Evening News, August 13, 1976 25 YEARS AGO IRATE parents today demanded action from British Rail following a toddler's lucky escape on a railway line. Two-years-old Jason Denton was sitting in the middle of the Bolton/Blackburn track at Tonge
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Animal shelter denies closure rumours
From the Evening News, August 7, 1976 25 YEARS AGO BOLTON'S Destitute Animal Shelter is definitely not closing down! That was the message today from Shelter officials who claim they are astounded by rumours of closure. WORK has started on the luxury £1,000,000
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£36,000 to halt loud music
From the Evening News, August 4, 1976 25 YEARS AGO HUGE windows at Horwich Leisure Centre are to be bricked up to muffle noise from late-night music sessions. The centre lost its music licence earlier this year after complaints from people in nearby Victoria
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Parents' fight to save school ends in tears
From the Evening News, August 2, 1976 25 YEARS AGO PARENTS wept openly as Bolton's smallest school closed down, a victim of the squeeze on public spending. They had lost their fight to save Tonge Fold Infants' School from the accountants' axe. And many
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Print and picture sale breaks town records
From the Evening News, August 19, 1976 25 YEARS AGO THERE is not just money in oil. There is money in oils. A record £2,838 was paid for pictures and prints on display last week in the Bolton Precinct. This compares with £1,967 last year. Colourful landscapes
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Holidaymakers hit by Spanish work to rule
From the Evening News, August 23, 1976 25 YEARS AGO HOLIDAYMAKERS who should have been soaking up the Spanish sun were getting all steamed up at Manchester Airport today. The airport was the worst hit by a work-to-rule of Spanish air traffic controllers
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More car park spaces lost
From the Evening News, November 1, 1976 25 YEARS AGO THE hard-pressed motorist will have lost another 24 car parking spaces in the area of Bolton Town Hall by this weekend. Engineering workers were today putting the finishing touches to double yellow
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Thriller of the Year, Victoria Hall ADS
Runs to Saturday, September 8 THIS is an old fashioned thriller in a style which builds up the suspense for the audience, revealing the villain at the very end. Done with a quiet simplicity, members of Victoria Hall ADS give a performance without too
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Denis returns in major role
DENIS Beardsworth is back on the "Straight and Narrow", due to appear in his first major role for Tyldesley Little Theatre since playing the part of a crooked solicitor 12 months ago. Work commitments had prevented Denis from undertaking a principal role
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Manchester Opera House, Until Saturday TIM Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical is a timeless classic that isn't dulled by the passage of time. This latest version, directed by Bill Kenwright, may lack the big name star or the slick production of the
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Hendry return tomorrow?
FIT again Colin Hendry is tipped to return to match action in Wanderers' reserves at Aston Villa tomorrow night.
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Pub raid terror
TWO men burst into an Atherton pub and stole cash from a safe after threatening the landlord and his wife with a gun. The raiders, both wearing balaclavas, broke into the living quarters of Paddy's Hump in Tyldesley Road early yesterday morning. Police
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Big day for new vicar
A VICAR will be formally installed in office this weekend. Reverend Gary Morrison has been preaching at the Cornerstone Baptist Church, Bromley Cross, for six months. An induction service will be held at the Lord's Stile Lane church on Saturday at 3pm
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Big Sam still in hunt for Bruno
BOLTON Wanderers are still negotiating with Marseille in a bid to bring the highly-rated centre-back, Bruno Ngotty, to the Reebok. Sam Allardyce is hoping to secure a loan deal for the 30-year-old former France international, who numbers Paris St Germain
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Lewis seeks revenge on world title trail
BURY boxing star Ady Lewis will not need much motivating when he takes on Belfast's Tommy Waite a week on Saturday writes Phil Thorp Victory over the Irishman will line up a world title shot at Colombian IBO bantamweight champion Jose Sanjuanelo three
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EGERTON v TONGE
Tonge D Taljard c Mills b Partington ...51 Nisar c Conlon b Ainsworth ...9 S Shepley lbw Partington ...43 J Aspden c Sharples b Burton ...24 J Kerrigan c Mills b Burton ...26 D Barlow b Burton ...3 N Hallows run out ...21 R Waller c Dudley b Burton ..
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Schofield's super show
CHRIS SCHOFIELD showed why Lancashire are keen to keep him with a five-star show under the Old Trafford floodlights last night. But Neil Fairbrother, who like Schofield (pictured right) is out of contract at the end of the season, followed yet another
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Leigh merger bid looks doomed
LEIGH Centurions' bid to take over the ailing London Broncos and move up into Super League looks doomed to failure. Super League clubs last night unanimously declared their opposition to relocate the Broncos outside the capital. The Broncos' future is
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Water cuts in drought
From the Evening News, August 26, 1976 25 YEARS AGO A LOCAL area has to cut its use of water by 50 per cent or jobs will be threatened and stand pipes brought in. The drought situation in the Rossendale Valley and parts of Ramsbottom and Tottington is
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An earlier global warming warning
From the Evening News, August 17, 1976 25 YEARS AGO ALL of a sudden water has become a big talking point. After two dry summers and two rather mild winters it seems evident that our climate is changing. Scientists have already said that Britain is now
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No weekend buses after 9pm
From the Evening News, August 5, 1976 25 YEARS AGO BOLTON busmen today voted to ignore official union advice and ban all Friday and Saturday night buses from 9pm onwards for a month. More than 300 men and women jammed into a recreation room at Shifnall
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Remember SirThomas
SATURDAY, August 25, marks the 350th anniversary of the death in battle of Royalist commander Sir Thomas Tyldesley writes Brian Gomm, of the Leigh Journal The last battle of the Civil War in Lancashire was fought outside on August 25, 1651. And, on that
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Badminton ace dies at 39
ONE of the Bolton Badminton League's most talented players has died at the age of 39. Mark Brunnen had been ill for some time, and the funeral was being held today near his home in Billinge. He played his local league badminton at the Atherton Badminton
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Thief gave himself up
A THIEF gave himself up to police after stealing from a car boot. Bury Magistrates were told Philip Herdson, aged 24, admitted responsibility just a short time after the car owner discovered items missing from the boot of his car. Herdson, from Spencer
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Theft shock for Australian visitor
AN Australian woman visiting her Bolton father had her purse stolen after she was befriended by two men in a park. Pat Chadwick, from Melbourne, was reading a book in Moses Gate Country Park, Farnworth, when the two men approached her and started talking
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Boro face a tough battle
"THIS is a very tough game for us," admits Radcliffe Boro boss Kevin Glendon going into tonight's FA Cup Preliminary Round replay at Crilly Park. The two drew 3-3 at Stainton Park on Saturday after NWCL Division One underdogs LR bounced back from the
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Title showdown
IT'S the final week of the season and there are still issues to be settled at both ends of the tables. No game will get bigger than the Monday Premier Division title decider between Farmers PSG and AKs Wrexham. They meet in the game that will decide who
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Farce begins run
MICHAEL Cooney's riotous farce, Cash on Delivery, begins its run at Farnworth Little Theatre from Saturday. The play will be staged until September 15, and tickets are available from the box office on 01204 303808, 6pm to 8pm.
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Rehearsals for Carousel
MEMBERS of Farnworth Performing Arts Company will be staging Rogers and Hammerstein's musical Carousel from April 15 to 20, 2002, in the Albert Halls. Rehearsals begin on Monday, September 10 at St John's School, Church Road, Farnworth, 7.30pm. Auditions
