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• Now Wanderers can build on Mac's super strike

  THE power of television has made the rest of the Premier League sit up and take notice of the Boys from Burnden. read more

• Firsts hit rock bottom

  BOLTON RUFC 1st team's Jekyll and Hyde performances continued at Bury in the Courage League with one of their worst of the season. read more

• Leigh wait for player ruling

  LEIGH will press ahead with their plans to sign a trio of Cook Islanders despite uncertaintly surrounding the players' standing on the League's overseas quota. read more

• Home draw for Bolton

  BOLTON Schools Volleyball Club will have home advantage in three of the junior sections of the opening rounds of the English National Championships. read more

• Mule kicks back

  BOLTON Council looks set to make a dramatic U-turn and keep the town's industrial heritage after a huge public outcry. read more

• Danger guns file for Home Secretary

  THE shock findings of a BEN investigation into the legal sale of high-powered firearms which could bring terror to the streets of Bolton are to be passed to Home Secretary Michael Howard. read more

• Bolton pays its respects to Judge Kershaw

  TRIBUTES have been paid to Judge Henry Aidan Kershaw, the former senior judge who was well known and respected in many spheres of Bolton life. read more

• Stranded climbers tell of peak ordeal

  TWO Bolton climbers who spent the night stranded on a narrow ledge near the summit of Ben Nevis have relived their frightening ordeal. read more

• Store row town demands answers

  COUNCILLORS in Westhoughton are demanding answers from Bolton Council over the long-running supermarket saga. read more

• Sailors need your letters

  SIR: As your probably already know HMS Beaver a type 22 batch 2 frigate of the first frigate squadron based at Devonport, Plymouth, is affiliated to the town of Bolton. read more

• Fury over fireworks

  SIR: I see the silly season has arrived, again, meaning the advent of the nightmare of the firework season. Already, we read of rabbits dying because fireworks have been thrown into their hutches, people injured by fireworks being thrown off the tops of buses, elderly people being terrorised in their own homes. These things have beeen reported in the media. But then again nearer home, for the last three weeks myself and neighbours, have had our sleep disturbed, our animals distressed every night with still two weeks to go before November 5. read more

• Wanderers will spend again

  WANDERERS are determined to spend again in their continued bid for Premiership safety. read more

• Come on the Wanderers!

  BRUCE Rioch wants Wanderers to go from strength to strength in the Premiership. read more

• Do it again, says Stan

  STAN Ternent sends out the Bury side that demolished Mansfield on Saturday to do a repeat job at shell-shocked Torquay tonight. read more

• The night it poured...

  25 YEARS AGO read more

• Children's weekend work

  INCREASING the number of hours that children may work at weekends could prove to be a mixed blessing. read more

• Why big Jo's slimming down

  JO Brand, arguably the country's best comedienne, is a little worried. read more

• Classic fun

  Alice in Wonderland read more

• LR's tough test

  ATHERTON LR travel to Curzon Ashton tonight full of confidence after Saturday's 2-1 win over Unibond Division One leaders Lancaster City. read more

• Yobs push burning bin into sheltered flats

  ELDERLY residents fled in their nightclothes after an arson attack in Great Lever. Firefighters evacuated seven of the pensioners, aged between 71 and 91, and another two managed to escape on their own. Yobs are believed to have set fire to a wheelie bin at the back of the warden-controlled flats on Lever Edge Lane just before 11pm last night and pushed it against the back of the building. read more

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