THE winners of the 1999/2000 Bolton Evening News Amateur Stage Awards are: Best Play -- Phoenix Theatre Company for The Lion in Winter; Best Musical -- Bolton Premier AOS for West Side Story; Best Set -- Bolton Premier AOS for West Side Story; ACDOCO Special Award -- Bolton Catholic Musical and Choral Society for chorus work in Barnum; Millennium Award -- Bolton Little Theatre for Trotters; BEN awards for contributions to the Amateur Stage Awards -- Michael Rogers and Harold Hulton.

Winners were presented with their awards at the Bolton Evening News Amateur Stage Awards/Bolton in the Albert Halls Last night. Full details and photographs of the event will be in a four-page supplement in next Tuesday's BEN.