VIRGIN Holidays say they have been astounded by the support they have received for their new non-stop scheduled service from Manchester Airport to Orlando in Florida. A spokesperson said: "We have had very positive feedback from our passengers and crew
BUSINESS guests at the Bolton Moat House hotel are being given a bottle of chilled champagne every night. The offer is valid for guests staying on Monday to Thursday nights between now and September 6, paying the full published rack rate of £89 per single
CARNAUD Metalbox Foodcan Components' factory in Westhoughton is celebrating a double win in the 1996 Starpack Awards. This is an annual scheme organised by the Institute of Packaging to promote British package design and manufacture. The entry - an innovative
BOLTON Wanderers are poised to launch an instant win local lottery ticket with a top prize of £25,000. Commercial Manager Terry Holland has persuaded the club board to back his plan for a major fightback against serious competition from National Lottery
CANNABIS with a street value of up to £60,000 was seized after police searched a car on the motorway near Bolton. Officers from the Greater Manchester Police motorway unit searched the Honda Prelude on the hard shoulder of the M62 and discovered the well-hidden
AN angry mum is demanding an inquiry after being told her central heating system is dangerous. Beverley Lomax said she is annoyed because council workman gave the system the all-clear when she moved into the house in Mossfield Road, Kearsley, last autumn
CAMPAIGNING local MP Janet Anderson has welcomed the Government's decision to make stalking a crime. But she slammed their delay in taking action. Ministers will finally act on the issue tomorrow and publish a Green Paper. Men who persistently harass
ELTON reached the final of the Cross Cup yesterday, beating Atherton, the side they toppled to take the trophy last season. Now they face Standish in this season's climax on August 4 after the Wigan side's surprise win over Little Hulton in the other
TONGE won the top of the table showdown with Kearsley but the title battle looks set to run and run. That was the view of Tonge's cricket manager Ray Eccleshare as he savoured his side's two wicket win. "Everybody said that whoever won this game would
By DAVE TOOMER NORTH West Water has praised its customers for their efforts to save water during the drought. But there is still no end in sight yet to the hosepipe ban imposed last summer at the height of the heatwave. Heavy rain at the end of last month
SIR: I refer to the Euro 96 football - England v Germany match. It is a pity that when two teams play equally powerfully and equally well one has to lose! Nevertheless, congratulations to both participants for their hard work and excellent display. I
SIR: I discovered by accident that there was a 125 bus service from Bolton to Rivington on Sundays via Chorley Old Road. The existence of this service does not seem to be widely known and not used very much, which is strange when it can get people from
A DYING man is offering a £1,000 reward to catch the man who knifed his brother to death - 30 years ago. Michel Bega, aged 66, believes the reward is his last chance to track down the killer who devastated his family. And he is asking BEN readers to help
SIR: Dennis Watson is quite right when he writes about the 'Down Side' of the proposed new incinerator at Raikes Lane, because although the figure for the burning rate has been cut to 20 tonnes per hour, it still gives a yearly throughput of 120,000 tons
BOLTON'S Nicky Boyd picked up his career where he left off as his fight closed the marathon 12-bout show at the NYNEX Arena, writes JOHN TURNER. In his first ring appearance for two years, he out-pointed Birmingham's Brian Coleman to extend his unbeaten
Leigh 12 Hunslet 44 LEIGH'S slide down the second division table continued as promotion chasing Hunslet celebrated their first league win at Hilton Park for 30 years. Coach Eric Hughes rang the changes after last week's defeat against Carlisle and fielded
SIR: As World Triple Jump Champion and record holder, I'm training heavily for the Olympics now. But I wanted to take a few minutes out to encourage your readers to accept their own physical challenge this summer for the Imperial Cancer Research Fund.
THE Phoenix Theatre Company won the David Lane Trophy in the recent Great Manchester Federation Awards for Front of House Management. For his part of Percy in the Phoenix's production ofZHabeas Corpus,ZRobin Thompson was named Best Supporting Actor. Converted
There are so many deaths a year, All the work of the Demon Beer. You might say it makes you feel good, But if you really understood. Just what alcohol can do, It can really ruin you. Clouds the mind and makes you stagger, Turns some into a nasty begger
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A THREE-pronged attack was mounted against the controversial nursery voucher scheme by Bolton Labour Party on Saturday. The party's three prospective parliamentary candidates, Brian Iddon, David Crausby and Ruth Kelly, were in Bolton's Victoria Square
CAMELOT, already receiving huge profits, is being allowed to earn interest on unused prize money. According to a national newspaper report today, M-Bamelot has earned £4.4 million in interest on cash set aside for Instants prizes. Because there has been
THE Tory Euro-sceptics are right in wanting John Major to stand up to Europe over plans to limit British workers to a 48-hour week. It looks likely that the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg will rule that the Government must give way and force
From the Evening News, July 8, 1971 A GREATER Britain if we go into Europe - but just a Britain if we stay out. That briefly is the message which the Government spells out in its Common Market White Paper, published today. The Prime Minister warned the
A FORMER Bolton School pupil has been appointed Operations Director of the London-based House of Fraser retail group. Stephen Hibbert, aged 48, whose mother and late father used to run a grocer's shop in Longsight, Harwood, will have overall responsibility
WHEN Yusuf Pate tells people his name they think there must be some mistake. Surely it should be Patel? Well, it used to be until Yusuf decided his business interests would be best served with a more indigenous-sounding surname. He simply followed the
AN angry pensioner claims his tap water is still unfit to drink more than two weeks after he first complained to North West Water. As reported in the BEN, Richard Kay, 72, refused to drink the water, complaining it tasted "off" and smelled like bleach
A HEROIC police officer's rescue of a Bolton man and his blind dog from Rivington reservoir is to be featured on national TV. Sgt Keith Blezard stripped off and dived into the icy waters to rescue the John Morrow and his labrador Braby who were stranded
ST JOSEPH'S RC High school, Horwich, has received a glowing report from Ofsted inspectors. The team of 15 who visited in May, found it to be a good school with a high standard of achievement, teaching and behaviour, where relationships between staff and
GOLBORNE seem to be running away with the Bolton Association championship. They stretched their lead at the top with a seven wicket win over one of their closest challengers Clifton, while Atherton went down to defeat by Elton in their Cross Cup semi-final
SIR: I saw that excellent letter about the history of the Jeep. I was a civilian employee of the US Air Force. I remember in the 1950s taking US Air Force material to Melias in Bolton: US trucks to be modified by them, gearboxes to be re-built and engine
POLICE and fire officers were today investigating a £170,000 blaze which destroyed six lorries and four trailers at a Bury haulier's yard. Four fire crews from Ramsbottom, Bury and Bolton, fought the fire at J and H Hinchliffe haulage contractors, Manchester
Eight weeks ago fire tore through Withins School destroying 20 classrooms and causing £600,000 worth of damage. Nothing less than determination and fighting spirit could have hauled the school through its most difficult time to date... TODAY scaffolding
SIR: Bolton Labour councillor Stuart Murray should realise his plan to get plaques in local cinemas for Leslie Halliwell, who authorised the noted Halliwell Film Guides. Leslie's works were quite outstanding; his books will be studied by historians for
SIR: Last Tuesday your newspaper carried two stories epitomising the massive inequality that exists because of this government's policies. You highlighted a survey undertaken by the Low Pay Unit, which revealed that almost nine out of 10 jobs in Bolton's
SIR: Recently our school has been upgrading its security systems both internally and externally. This has resulted in a new office window to give greater security to office access and a recent CCTV monitor security system to monitor key areas around the
VANDALS are putting lives in danger by breaking into a block of flats at Little Hulton and setting fire to gas pipes. Farnworth firemen have been called out to two incidents recently at the flats at Kenyon Way where gas pipe lines have been unscrewed
A SHOCKED pensioner is recovering in hospital after being hurled to the floor by a yob burgling her home. The 71-year-old disturbed her attacker as he rifled through her house in Hope Street, Leigh. The burglar walked in through an open back door and
AN elderly pedestrian died after he was catapulted 10 yards onto a pavement following an accident with a tipper waggon. Joseph Cocker, aged 88, was dealt a glancing blow by the lorry as he crossed Falcon Street, Bolton, on the outskirts of the town centre
A tough new law which will make stalking a specific criminal offence should be on the Statute Book within months. We have consistently supported such a law. Too often, under present legislation, the police can only act if a stalker resorts to violence
