SIR Tom Farmer, Chairman of Kwik Fit, is to speak at a business dinner at the Last Drop Village on Thursday. The dinner, organised by Bolton Bury TEC, is part of National Investors in People Week. It is open to all organisations either committed or recognised
UNDERGRADUATE Jody Poulton won an award after carrying out a market research project for Bolton Hospital Saturday Council. She was one of 11 who were placed with local companies under STEP 97 to undertake projects for an eight-week period during their
A SAFE "yellow brick road" could soon be set up through Bolton town centre. Around 100 people have been invited to a special town hall seminar on Friday to discuss ways that safe pedestrian routes can be created. It is all part of a council strategy to
RESIDENTS living near the Reebok Stadium are calling for a football nuisance committee to be set up in Horwich following Saturday's violence. As reported yesterday, police had to quell trouble before and after Bolton's derby game with Manchester United
A MUM-of-two is frightened to answer her front door after Bolton Council rehoused her in a property, which she claims was previously lived in by a drug dealer. Sharon Burrows says that since moving into the house in Carlton Street, Farnworth, two weeks
A GROUP of German students are set to join Bolton's workforce when they arrive in the town next week on an exchange visit. The 18 students are from a school in Paderborn-Elsen which is twinned with Westhoughton High School, and have been found placements
SIR: I would not have received further education had I had to pay for tuition. Such a payment attacks particularly the working class. I notice concern expressed in your column about this 'tax on learning' by one of our MPs. What we want is not their sympathy
SIR: Much has been said, quite a lot by me, about noisy disrespectful children. It has often been my misfortune to find myself on the same bus as a hoard of screaming, shouting, downright abusive school children, who obviously haven't been taught how
SIR: I take exception at your article making owners of older vehicles and their cars scapegoats. Firstly, as you seem oblivious to the facts. Part of the MOT Test is the rigorous emissions test, which, if the vehicle fails to meet Government standards
PAUL Payton conducts The Messiah for the first time on Saturday at the Victoria Hall, Bolton, as part of the worldwide BT Voices for Hospices 1997. Members of 18 local choirs will be singing and they will be joined by an orchestra drawn from the Bolton
TWO special events are taking place at the Victoria Hall, Bolton, as part of the centenary celebrations of the Bolton Methodist Mission. On Saturday, October 25, at 7.30pm there is Songs in Celebration with Nigel Swinford of the BBC Songs of Praise, Bolton
FARNWORTH AODS will be among local societies performing at a gala musical evening to celebrate Bolton Hospice's fifth anniversary. They will be performing a selection from Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde on November 16 at the Albert Halls, Bolton. The concert will
A TOWN hall council chamber which has not been used for 24 years re-opens for business again today. Farnworth council chamber was last used in 1974 before local government re-organisation. But Bolton councillors are back there again today for a meeting
BURY will get a further pointer to whether they can live with the best tonight. The Shakers bid to reverse a 2-1 Coca-Cola Cup second round first leg deficit against a Sunderland side Stan Ternent rates as First Division promotion material. Gigg Lane
WANDERERS are determined to break their Reebok duck tonight. The race is on to 'christen' the magnificent £35 million showpiece stadium after two scoreless draws. Stalemates against Everton and Manchester United have frustrated the Bolton attack. Now
COLIN Todd called for the AA to give Spurs a rough ride at the Reebok tonight. The Wanderers boss believes the twin threats of aggression on the field and atmosphere in the stands is the blueprint for Premiership success. Far from being ashamed by accusations
ATHERTON'S Michelle Whittle cooked up a storm when she taught fellow North West school chefs a lesson they won't forget. The head cook at Meadowbank County Primary School in Atherton, gave competitors food for thought as she scooped the title of North
THE distinctly-dressed leader of a brick-wielding gang of thugs is being hunted by police. The thug - who had a plaster cast on his arm - and his four accomplices were responsible for a brutal attack on a man in the Crown Street car park in Bolton town
JACK Prescott, the pride of Horwich RMI Harriers, has died aged 89. He joined the running club in 1924 and was secretary for more than 33 years. In the lean years of the late 60s and 70s he refused to let the club die and he and a group of close friends
A BOLTON youngster has been awarded almost £5,000 from a popular children's theme park after an accident which left him in hospital for eight weeks. James Haydock, now aged five, suffered a badly broken leg during a day out at Gulliver's World at Warrington
SIR: Please don't put us in a home before our time -it upsets us all. Rivington House is a block of very nice self-contained flats owned by North British Housing Association. It would be very kind of you, if printing the above, you would thank our Duty
SIR: I fully agree with the findings by Dr Glenn Cupit (Psychologist University, South Australia) that screen violence does do harm to children and to the wider community. This fits in with the increasing awareness that there is a clear link between violence
LAST week Shirley Hastings gained a 2.1 Bachelor of Arts degree from Bolton Institute. Like thousands of others, she swelled with pride when her award was handed over. But for her the journey to the Victoria Hall stage had been longer and tougher than
A BOLTON GP claims there has been a "criminal waste" of National Health Service money to cover up the number of people waiting for NHS physiotherapy treatment in the town. Dr Bernard Newgrosh of Great Lever Health Centre says dozens of patients who have
SIR: Interesting (well sometimes!) to hear Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott say on television that if the vote in Scotland for a parliament was yes, then it opened the door in England for regional government. He didn't say assembly! Local Labour leader
SIR: The first-ever record of every police officer killed on duty is to form part of a new National Police Memorial. The first phase, a commemorative avenue of trees known as 'The Beat', was officially opened by the Home Secretary on Monday, September
SIR: I refer to the letter from Mrs H E Flitcroft (Your Views: September 15) regarding the Reebok Stadium. In it, she stated that "some jobs may be created in the service industries in the new development, but that these will probably be in catering and
RADCLIFFE Boro could certainly do with a win to pull clear of early season danger at the bottom of the Unibond Premier Division. The Boro have picked up just six points from seven games and have only one win to their credit. Manager Kevin Glendon isn't
IMPORTANT dates for your diary: The Hepton Singers from Hebden Bridge will give a concert in St Bartholomew's Parish Church, Westhoughton, on Saturday. The concert was arranged by Peter Tillotson, a Boltonian and son of the former chairman of the BEN,
A BOLTON man had a lucky escape from serious injury when a charity parachute jump went wrong. Mark Farnworth, of Rydal Road, Heaton, was rushed to Lancaster Royal Infirmary after he landed badly on Sunday. Mark was raising cash for Bolton Hospice and
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, September 22, 1972 BOLTON Planning Committee is protesting about the plan to rename the town's historic Swan Hotel the Duck Inn Hotel. In the strongest-possible local government language, it records its 'sense of outrage
SPURS will almost certainly have to rely again on their emergency strike-force of Jose Dominguez and Paul Mahorn to produce their first goal in four Premiership games at the Reebok Stadium tonight. Manager Gerry Francis has admitted he is unlikely to
