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  • Pair join the legal team

    BOLTON solicitors Kippax Beaumont Lewis, based in Mawdsley Street, have made two new appointments, Toby Williamson and Michael Slater. Toby Williamson has now been admitted as a solicitor after successfully completing articles with the firm. He will add

  • Firms need a crime blitz

    THREE out of four owners of small firms are concerned about the effect crime is having on their business. And nine out of ten feel let down by the judicial system when it comes to tackling crime. These are the findings in a survey by the Federation of

  • People power at the library

    A FORMER library in Great Lever has been given a new lease of life as a community centre. The library was officially handed over to Great Lever Community Association last week after committee members proved they were capable of looking after the premises

  • Nits shampoo alert: parents reassured

    BOLTON'S public health chief has reassured parents after a national scare over the use of some of the most effective types of shampoos for treating headlice in children. Parents are being warned against using some special insecticidal shampoos after claims

  • Council's grand gesture hits the right note

    WINGATES Brass Band has been given a £1,000 boost by Westhoughton Town Council. The grant was approved after councillors were told that the band faces a constant fund-raising battle to stay at the top in the competitive world of brass bands. Founded in

  • Ski centre fighters step up cold war

    PROTESTERS fighting the controversial Xanadu Snowdome complex in Leigh are considering legal action to challenge the Secretary of State's decision not to hold a public inquiry. The Green Party and local residents yesterday held talks with the London legal

  • Sewer fight goes down the drain

    RESIDENTS who tried to stop a workmen's compound being set up near a Bolton primary school have lost their fight. Bolton Council has given the go-ahead to contractors for North West Water - despite warnings from local people that the work will put children

  • 'Perfect prefects' pride!

    A FARNWORTH school's "perfect" prefect training scheme has attracted the attention of the world's media. And according to the headteacher, the youngsters are taking to the interest shown in them by film crews and journalists, "like ducks to water." In

  • Rats of the week

    SIR: On Saturday, September 28, my daughter and son-in-law came to visit us. As they could not park outside our house they parked their car four doors away, so it was out of vision. They arrived at 12.30 pm and left at 2.30 pm. During those two hours

  • Players need a break - Hughes

    A REPEAT of last year's Christmas crackers will receive a cool reception from Wigan coach Eric Hughes. The traditional derby fixtures against St Helens on Boxing Day and New Year's Day were resurrected as a welcome financial mid-season bonus by the two

  • Knight of the road

    SIR: Would you kindly portray my thanks to a very kind gentleman and his son who assisted me on Saturday evening. On Saturday evening at 9pm I was driving along Gilnow Road when my wheel clipped a kerb. As I overtook parked vehicles I did not notice the

  • Jaded palate

    A thousand cooks on TV do try, With exotic dishes to catch our eye. The jaded palate cries out each day For some new concoction with which to play. Mangetout with tarragon makes me wince While for after there's plums in quince. Whatever happened to lamb

  • MPs join anti dog hunt crusade

    TWO Bolton MPs campaigning hard to outlaw hunting with dogs say they believe the vast majority of their constituents are backing them. The two men, Dr Brian Iddon of Bolton South East and David Crausby of Bolton North East, added their support to MP Michael

  • Have you got what it takes to run the London Marathon?

    AGE Concern in Bolton are trying to find local people to run in next year's Flora London Marathon. The Age Concern charity nationally is a main benefactor from the 1998 race and is aiming to raise £1 million nationwide. Money raised by Bolton runners

  • Veggie victory

    JOHN Wright's Sunday dinner was unceremoniously chucked away in what is surely the first recorded act of positive vegetarianism in Bolton. This little gem emerges in a book by a former Bolton Evening News journalist and now a Salford City councillor,

  • Firework sparks factory blaze

    ALERT neighbours living close to the Brownlow Business Centre in Halliwell helped to save a furniture assembly firm from going up in smoke. The residents called out firefighters after spotting smoke coming from Kaan International after a firework had

  • Bolton 'old boy' makes a stand for devolution

    BOLTON School "old boy" Derek Prag gave the annual Marcus Tillotson Lecture to an audience of students, parents, governors and guests. Mr Prag, a former long-serving member of the European Parliament, told the 500 strong audience that he "strongly supported

  • It's Bolton Market for me, says masterchef Tom

    MASTERCHEF Tom Bridge knew exactly where to buy his ingredients for a brand new food programme - Bolton Market. And when "Cooking Clinic" is screened on Granada tonight, it will show a nostalgic trip to his Bolton home for this national cookery expert

  • Out in the cold!

    GUDNI Bergsson is facing the crossroads in his record-breaking international career. The Bolton Wanderers defender has been surprisingly dropped from the Icelandic squad for their final World Cup qualifying group game against Lichenstein on Saturday.

  • Sword that slashed a landlord

    DETECTIVES hunting the vicious maniac who attacked a pub landlord with a Samurai type sword are appealing for information about the home-crafted weapon. Ernie Gradwell, the landlord of the Shepherd's Arms, on Wellington Road, Ince, was left fighting for

  • Ban this Halloween from our town

    GHOULIES and ghosties could be banned from Bolton if a father's battle to get rid of Halloween is successful. Father of three Tom Jones has written to Bolton Council leader Cllr Bob Howarth demanding that Halloween be replaced with a more "wholesome"

  • Local election fighting fund flop is revealed

    BOLTON Tories raised just £785 of the target figure of almost £5,000 for the Tories' General Election fighting fund last year. Their paltry contribution came as the Party headed for its biggest ever landslide defeat this century. Although the total figure

  • Norweb in price battle

    CHEAPER gas and electricity could be in the pipeline for people in the North West as battle lines are drawn for an energy price war. The electricity and gas supply markets are being opened up to competition next year and Norweb has already launched ENERGi

  • Strong words!

    SIR: I recently complained through these columns very strongly about your decision to use the word "pillock" in the BEN. In the paper's Your Views (Wednesday, October 1), Mr K Heyworth states that I should get out and about more and, in his own words,

  • Free parking seems unfair

    SIR: I was interested to see an advertisement in a recent edition of the Bolton Evening News promoting the Albert Halls as a conference centre. One of the inducements was "Free car parking for delegates". This seems rather unfair as the people of Bolton

  • Such happy memories

    SIR: your recent article, featuring the veteran airman seeking a wartime girl friend, revived memories of my own heart. I, too, posted to the Technical College Wireless Course, arrived in this strange industrial town upon a chilly damp and smog laden

  • X-POP3-Rcpt: csudlow@NewBlackburn1

    X-Zsender: neil.morgan@zetnet.co.uk Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 23:43:26 +0100 To: ben_edit@lancashire.newsquest.co.uk From: Neil Morgan Subject: the stadium Whinge away I feel sorry for all of you living near the new football stadium. I don't blame you for

  • Bogus salesman warning

    A WARNING about door to door salesmen has been issued by council staff in Bury. It follows reports that a man selling security devices on the doorstep has been claiming they are approved by the local authority. But the council stresses that it has not

  • OAP robbed

    AN elderly man was robbed at his home in Hindley by two men offering to trim trees. While one of the thieves talked to the pensioner, at his home on Durham Road, yesterday afternoon, the other slipped into the house. The 71-year-old saw one of the man

  • Daryl's lucky glass escape

    A BOLTON schoolboy had an amazing escape when he crashed head first through a plate glass window on a garage forecourt. Splintered glass missed a vein in Daryl Wells' wrist by inches as the eight-year-old from Halliwell ran through the glass at the petrol

  • Benefit for consumers

    WHILE British Gas and Norweb are engaging in the energy price war, the consumers should reap the benefits of lower prices. The electricity and gas supply markets are being opened up to competition next year and British Gas has pledged that its electricity

  • North-west drivers blasted after speeding blitz

    A NATIONWIDE clampdown on speeding drivers - spearheaded by a tragic Bolton hit and run victim - has netted 9,000 Greater Manchester drivers in two weeks. That is the number of drivers throughout the county who have been prosecuted in the campaign's first

  • Stay indoors for Halloween fun

    TO most people Halloween means pumpkins cut into faces and bobbing for apples. But father-of-three, Tom Jones, sees "evil" overtones behind the festival which could lure children into Satanic practices. No doubt Mr Jones is wholly sincere in his sentiments

  • Lost seats get twin set consolation

    THE four Bolton and Bury constituencies which lost their Tory MPs in the Labour General Election landslide are to be twinned with seats held by the Conservatives. Shadow Leader of the Commons Gillian Shephard announced that by the end of this month all

  • Di book sells out

    THE new version of Andrew Morton's controversial biography on Diana, Princess of Wales has sold out at one Bolton book shop even before stocks have arrived. Sweetens on Deansgate say they have sold their first consignment before they are on the shelves

  • From the BEN files

    25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, October 7, 1972 TURTON Council last night backed a 'last-ditch stand' to get Belmont in with the new Bolton metropolitan district under local government re-organisation, in a direct turnabout of its previous policy.

  • Fish on the way back

    MARK Fish began the road to recovery today. The £2m central defender joined up with his Wanderers team-mates for the first time since suffering a knee injury after the Reebok draw with Spurs a fortnight ago. Manager Colin Todd said the signs were encouraging