ADVANCED Tape Products, based on the Tonge Bridge Industrial Estate, has been launched on the World Wide Web. ATP specialises in providing adhesive tapes, particularly packaging tapes. The company says it has already received orders via the Internet from
SIR: Recently on TV and in the local and national news there has been a lot of information about how tobacco companies knew of the dangers of lung damage, or cancer, by tobacco smoke. When I was a young man in 1942, we had an employee who died with lung
VANDALS sent 150 children's soccer dreams up in smoke last night. Arsonists torched a storage cabin belonging to Bromley Cross junior footballers causing £3,500 damage and wrecking goal posts, nets, flags and a lawn mower. And now the cash-strapped Bolton
The noise was deafening, like pick-axe on granite, They toiled through each night to build the Titanic. This splendour of man would reach to the sky, Their ignorance of Nature told them it couldn't die. Way across the Atlantic as the Titanic grew, The
BOLTON MP Brian Iddon has raised the fears of hundreds of mentally ill people in the town over the Government's review of benefits for the disabled and handicapped. Last night he tackled Social Security secretary, Harriet Harman on the issue and presented
A LITTLE Lever boy faces being split from his brother and friends after a mix-up over school application forms. Richard Buckley started at Little Lever High School last year and his mum assumed her younger son, Thomas would follow this September. Mrs
SIR: Cllr Howarth says (BEN March 5 ) that: "We now have a shopping area which is free of traffic". Where is it? Is it Victoria Square, where we are subjected to buses, cars, etc; Newport Street, where delivery vans abound; Deansgate, where all traffic
WIGAN chiefs are prepared for some tough bargaining as they battle to beat the salary cap. They are incensed by the RFL's tough stance on the new scheme which has resulted in them being docked £33,000 per month in Murdoch money. That will turn into a
RAIL bosses today announced plans to invest millions of pounds improving tracks around Bolton and creating a new station near the Reebok Stadium. As part of a £17 billion nationwide programme during the next 10 years two key plans have been earmarked
A SHOCKED street collector has blasted fast food firm McDonald's for trying to move him on as he collected for a heart charity OUTSIDE their Bolton town centre restaurant. But after being contacted by the BEN, the company accepts it should never have
LOCAL business leaders went clubbing this week for the launch of the Bolton Young Entrepreneur Programme. Fifteen would-be tycoons in the 18 to 30 age range will be selected for cash assistance and intensive help and advice which starts this summer. This
SIR: As the residents of Bolton receive their council tax bills for the forthcoming year, am I the only person who is concerned to see that Bolton has the highest rise in the Manchester area? Is this not typical of a Labour council, which, for the past
A POLICE officer jumped into the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Adlington to rescue a woman. PC Kevin McDonald plunged into the canal at the bottom of Harrison Road last night and pulled the middle-aged woman out. Firefighters wrapped her in aluminium foil
FURTHER tests are being carried out to establish the infection which caused the death of tragic Kirsty Moss. Kirsty, aged nine, of Sandyhills, Great Lever, died in the casualty department of the Royal Bolton Hospital on Monday - hours after seeing her
THE former Institution of Mining Electrical and Mining Mechanical Engineers (IMEMME) have presented precious memorabilia to the Lancashire Mining Museum for display as a record of Lancashire mining history. The items - including past presidents' medallions
WHEN this play opened in London a few years ago it became something of a cause celebre. A single act of violence - committed on a middle aged man by three young girls - led to an incredible backlash. People walked out of the theatre, the play was branded
RAIL chiefs have approved a move which could see houses go up on land earmarked for the long-awaited overspill car park at Lostock station. The BEN can reveal that land will be sold to the highest bidder at an auction at Manchester Airport in July. The
A RADCLIFFE dad has met Home Office officials to lobby for an independent inquiry into a police investigation of his son's death. Anthony Killoran, 25, was killed in a road accident in Newport, South Wales, in September 1995. The young motorcyclist was
GAETANO Giallanza has his sights on a dream double after joining Wanderers' fight to stay in the Premiership. The Swiss-born striker is determined to help his new side beat the drop and, at the same time, breathe new life into his own ambition...to play
SIR: With reference to the article (BEN February 28/March 1), I would like to state that I did not want to take part in the controversy surrounding the Greenmount Wild Bird Sanctuary. However, the spokesman's words against my friends cannot remain unanswered
AIR Mauritius says flight times between Manchester and Mauritiius will be cut by two hours when the service becomes non-stop from March 30. The airline plans to offer fares for both business and economy travel. Raj Chellum, Air Mauritius' Regional Manager
LANCASTRIANS rallied around Mike Atherton after his decision to quit the England captaincy after 52 Tests. In the Caribbean, coach David Lloyd, manager Bob Bennett and commentator Paul Allott all saluted Athers' efforts while, back home in England, chief
SIR: Recently our Guide Company, 49th Bolton held a Blue Peter Bring & Buy sale in aid of the appeal to help young people with Cystic Fibrosis. Thankfully we have no direct experience of this disease, but it could have affected any of our children
SIR: A compliment, a complaint and an omission. Since I have not visited every library in Lancashire, I cannot say that Bolton Library is the best in the County. What I can say is that Bolton town centre has a library that is second to none, of which
BATTLING grandad Frank Hayman has challenged his neighbours to wage war on the louts who are ruining his area. The 61-year-old wants frightened local people to stand up to the yobs, who he says are turning the neighbourhood into a mini Moss Side. And
BURY were set to bring in goalkeeping cover for ever-present Dean Kiely ahead of tomorrow's transfer deadline. Shakers boss Stan Ternent was speaking to his target today and has high hopes of wrapping up the deal. But he has no plans to boost his outfield
BOLTON Wanderers officials were faced with a new headache in their troubled season today. A camp of gipsies had moved onto one of the Reebok Stadium's official car parks during last night. Vehicles had moved onto car park D next to Burnden Way this morning
POLICE appealed for witnesses today as they released more details about a raid outside a post office in Leigh. Two masked robbers snatched a cash bag from a bakery delivery man as he took a small amount of money to Manchester Road post office. The man
BOLTON Animal Shelter has renewed its appeal for dog owners to fit their pet with an identity disc - after a record day for strays. In just 12 hours yesterday, the Northolt Drive shelter had 20 new lost dogs to deal with. That was a record in any single
THE amazing fightback of a Bolton boy who nearly drowned in a river has touched the heart of Tony Blair. The Prime Minister has sent his best wishes to the family of little Lee Mitchell who miraculously fought back from the brink after he fell into the
YOUNG people will give first hand experience of the harsh realities of homelessness at a one day confer- ence. The plight of young homeless people comes under the spotlight on Monday, when Bury Council joins forces with the NCH Action for Children. Entitled
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, March 26, 1973 DANE Zlatar was annoyed when his friend Slobodan Vasic bit his ear off at a drinking party that got out of hand in Yugoslavia. 'Forgive me', begged Slobodan in a tearful public apology, but Dane replied
SIR: I refer to the letter by Bill Collison (BEN, March 6). In reply to the above, I would like to make it clear that the residents of Springfield Road have not asked Mr Collison to do anything. May I point out that in 1996 company on the Lyon Industrial
SIR: Fifty years ago, the very first charity shop was opened in Oxford to raise money for Oxfam. The idea was such a success that Oxfam now has about 850 shops, and other charities have taken up the idea so that there are more than 6,500 charity shops
VANDALS went on a town centre wrecking spree, smashing a Thai boxing club's signs worth hundreds of pounds. Owner Sandy Holt has been landed with an estimated bill of £300 to replace the three large signs which advertise his club, off Brown Street. And
DELEGATES from all over the world will be attending a conference in Bolton next month. Ecotextile 98 has been designed to build on the success of a smilar conference in 1995 which also attracted world attention from the global textile industry. This year's
