ONE of Southlands High's success stories paid a visit to the school after carving out a career in the land of the rising sun. Andrea Cowley, 31, whose parents still live in Chorley, is now product manager for Cable and Wireless's Asian division in Hong
A HEARTBROKEN Euxton woman has pleaded to burglars to return treasured sentimental gifts which they stole in a raid on her home. Mrs Christine Hodkinson had more than £1,000 cash taken, but it is the theft of a little teddy bear and Confirmation Book
LUCY Green was treated to a sparkling silver anniversary surprise . . . to commemorate a special alliance. But the union in question did not refer to marital bliss, rather to Lucy's attachment to her workplace. When she first started working in what is
THE search is on for unsung heroes to make a clean sweep of a new awards scheme. The BEN has joined forces with Bolton Metro People and Places Programme in a bid to find the Bolton's Street Cleaner of the Year. And you can nominate your favourite road
SOCCER fan councillors have been ruled offside when they consider Bolton Wanderers planning applications. All the councillors who are season ticket holders at the Reebok Stadium had to "declare an interest" when plans to demolish Burnden Park came before
SUPERMARKET giants Tesco and the RSPCA have joined forces to give customers a clearer conscience when they eat their Sunday lunch. A new welfare fresh meat counter has been launched at the Vauxhall Road store as part of the RSPCA's Freedom Food scheme
A BOLTON couple claim a spate of crime at their Breightmet home has cost them £4,000 in the last three years. But they claim police are doing too little to catch the culprits and they have written to their MP David Crausby and the head of Astley Bridge
A NEW character is about to Bob into our lives - to help make them safer. Cartoon figure Battery Bob was launched by Lancashire Fire Brigade to spearhead a drive to encourage people to fit smoke alarms and make sure they have working batteries. The official
SIR: I won second prize in the Howard Keel Golf Classic Competition. I really appreciated the golf umbrella and visor and my father-in-law was pleased with the T-shirt and baseball cap and we had a most enjoyable day watching the golf and meeting the
CHORLEY'S a nice place to live. But it's attractions are putting housing out of the reach of low income local people. Housing chiefs discovered in a survey that lots of people are moving to live in Chorley from outside the borough and commuting to work
CHORLEY 2 BISHOP AUCKLAND 2 FA Cup second qualifying round AN ENTERTAINING FA Cup tie ended with honours even and a tricky replay for Chorley in the North East. All the goals came in a hectic 12-minute spell midway through the first half and it was something
THREE Chorley secondary schools are set to reap the rewards of a cash bonanza just announced by the Government. The Citizen can exclusively reveal that Albany, Parklands and St Michael's have all been named by education and employment secretary David
MONTELL CARRINGTON 12 CHORLEY RUFC 32 CHORLEY travelled to Cheshire hoping to build on last week's success against Burnage, but Montell proved a different proposition with their powerful forwards and competent backs. Chorley only gained control of the
A GANG responsible for a series of raids on garden centres throughout the North-west is being hunted in Bolton. Police believe the thieves - who have stolen thousands of pounds worth of equipment by targeting prestigious garden centres - are from the
I sat with the door wide open, the sun was really hot, Then decided to give the birds their daily bread, why not. I feed them mainly at tea time, and today gave them a surprise My big bowl of water was there too. You should have heard their chirps and
A FIREMAN who served at Bolton Central fire station has died suddenly after a short illness. Allen Speakman, 50, a fireman for 25 years, died on Tuesday. He leaves a wife and two sons. Mr Speakman, of Ashcombe Drive, Breightmet, served with the Grenadier
BOLTON'S teenage heartthrob Paul Nicholls is rumoured to be quitting Albert Square for a new BBC police drama. Following in the footsteps of Eastenders' Nick Berry, the 18-year-old Bolton soap star has today hit the headlines over talk that he is to front
MORE than 60 jobs are to be created in Farnworth when a flagship store is opened in the town centre. The move was announced today by Littlewoods Catalogue Discount Company which is investing millions of pounds into a former DIY store in King Street. And
NOSTALGIA for the age of flared trousers and platform shoes has given Bolton Museum and Art Gallery another blockbuster exhibition. More than 19,000 visitors have already been to The Seventies - Portrait of a Decade exhibition. It runs until January and
Oldham Athletic Res 3 Wanderers Res 2 WANDERERS reserves went down to their second defeat of the season when Oldham ran out 3-2 winners at Boundary Park last night. Everything appeared to be going well for Bolton during the first half. Dean Holden had
JAMIE Pollock has been told he can leave Bolton Wanderers after heart-to-heart talks with manager Colin Todd. The combative North Easterner has been growing increasingly frustrated by his role, wide on the right of the Bolton midfield, and fears his career
IBERIA, the Spanish national airline, is introducing daily non-stop flights from Manchester to Madrid running alongside their present operation to Barcelona. This move, which starts on October 26, strengthens the existing link between the North-west of
BOLTON Mountain Rescue Team has been given a helping hand by construction consumables supplier Parker Merchanting. The team went to the firm's depot in Liverpool Road, Salford when 45 volunteers needed protective overalls to wear over climbing clothing
SIXTEEN pairs of tickets are available for the Showcase Australasia event being held at Bolton Town Hall next week. Bolton Bury Training and Enterprise Council, in conjunction with the Evening News, is giving them away to Business News readers. The tickets
BURY Council has opened its own web-site on the Internet. The council has gone on-line to give full details about the services it offers, individual councillors as well as information on wards and committee membership. The first phase of the web-site
A NEW scheme to get people out and about is being launched by Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive. A set of 20 "great days out" fact-files has been produced to give ideas for places of interest, which can be reached by public transport. The
BOLTON town centre has scooped a major award for its action plans to fight off the threat of Dumplington and other rivals. Town centre manager Maria Appleton was presented with the award in Scotland at an Association of Town Centre Managers' conference
THE wife of Bolton Wanderers' £3.5 million star, Dean Holdsworth has issued him with a stark warning - "one more fling and we're finished." Sam Holdsworth made the warning as she poured her heart out to a national newspaper about the striker's much-publicised
GUN owners in Chorley handed in their weapons this week before the national firearm surrender deadline passed. And Police in the county said they were "satisfied" by the response to the campaign, with more than 2,700 guns and a total of 125,000 rounds
MORE than half of Bolton's 16-year-olds are feared to have experimented with drugs. And a leading education chief has admitted that the teenage drugs problem is spiralling. The situation is so bad that many youngsters now regard taking drugs as normal
CHORLEY could get its very own Heritage Centre as thoughts turn to the 21st century. That is just one suggested idea to celebrate the Millennium in town. A Chorley Millennium Committee will shortly be launched, made up of individuals and representatives
PLANS to move a special school for senior pupils to the site of a Bolton mainstream comprehensive will provide a "better working environment for all", say education chiefs. Pupils at Woodside Senior School - now in Chorley New Road, Bolton - could start
NEW council house tenants looked set to be put on probation this week in a bid to stamp out "neighbours from hell." Housing chiefs are ready to bring in "introductory tenancies" for newcomers - with the warning that they are through the door if they step
SIR: With reference to 'Birthday Card Blow' (BEN Sept 25). I would suggest that the lady contacts the Customer Service Manager at King Street, Bolton, on 0345 740740. I did this early last week and I found him to be very concerned and he promised to investigate
SIR: I can see the Reebok Stadium from where I live. It is impossible to travel to the ground by car, see a match and return home in under four hours. I have paid £117 for a car parking space on the gridlocked stadium car park. I was not booked by the
SIR: Some week ago I was lucky enough to win tickets to see I'm Marrying Ryan Giggs, which was a lovely prize in itself, courtesy of the BEN. This competition was also run by other newspapers regionally. I was very surprised later to receive a telephone
SIR: The weekend of Sept 26/27 saw another of the annual visits by the 'Friends of Horwich' from Crowborough, our twin town in East Sussex. This provided us with a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate with pride the many finer aspects of Horwich and its
POLICE are hunting four masked men, one armed with an iron bar, who raided a supermarket in Hindley last night. The men, all wearing balaclavas and dark clothing, burst into the Spar supermarket on Borsdane Avenue, at 7.50pm. One of the men smashed up
A CHARITY for the blind is promoting a day of action to get people to open their eyes to eye health. The RNIB say a 30 minute eye test could help detect problems such as glaucoma and diabetic eye disease which can result in blindness. The charity has
IT seems a strange decision to rule out councillors holding Bolton Wanderers' season tickets when planning applications about the Reebok Stadium come up. They must, instead, declare an interest and take no part. This follows a local government Ombudsman's
CHARITY fund-raiser Dawn Morris has organised further Spice Girls look-a-like contests due to popular demand. A competition on Wednesday, December 3, will benefit Bolton's Woodside School. A further round of the competition will take place at Farnworth
PARENTS and everyone concerned about the welfare of young people have got to believe it. Many youngsters now regard taking drugs in the same way that many adults enjoy a drink. As our shocking report today reveals, more than half of Bolton's 16-year-olds
A NEW housing project to help the mentally ill get their lives back on track is to open in Wigan Road, Bolton. The Carr-Gomm Society is providing eight self-contained flats for single people with mental health and other problems. A support worker on the
WILLIS Hall's stage adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre retains the major part of the story and emphasises its feminist message. At last night's opening of Peter Haslam's gritty production of this powerful love story, Marco Players confirmed that
ONE of the biggest religious festivals in the Hindu calendar takes place on Saturday - when hundreds of local people are expected to join in. Dasshera will be celebrated at the Bolton Indian Cricket Club ground on Hacken Lane, off Radcliffe Road, Darcy
BURY finally got their man when they signed midfielder Jason Peake from Brighton on a free transfer. Shakers boss Stan Ternent has been chasing the 26-year-old former Rochdale ace for three months. The deal has been on ice for the past week while the
