I WANT to pick up on three topical issues. I refer to the forecasted severe weather coming in 50 years time. Weather forecasters can't get it right for the next 24 hours, never mind in 50 years hence. Once again an inch of snow falls and traffic chaos
AS I'm sure you know, the loveable perky pig called Babe is back on our cinema screens this month. And I think this is great, because people will see what beautiful and intelligent creatures pigs really are. When Babe was first released, pork sales dropped
THE BIRCH was at hand years ago and less crime was committed. I knew a boy who received it once and only once, that proved it was the cure. Now that crime is on the increase the birch should be introduced, more so when large numbers of the public have
RESIDENTS in Westhoughton have urged Environment Minister Michael Meacher to help them fight plans for a super estate on one of the last green field sites in the area. Mr Meacher was at Bolton Town Hall yesterday as part of a touring "global warming roadshow
COUNCIL housing chiefs at Bolton were today poised to introduce their lowest rent rise for the last 15 years. Housing Committee members were meeting this afternoon to finalise rents for 1999-2000 and a report recommends a 2.6pc rise which works out at
IN April last year, Lawrence Till, the Octagon Theatre's Artistic Director delivered a hard-hitting message about arts funding in Britain. Till (pictured below) claimed then there was a funding crisis in the infrastructure that supports the Arts in this
ONLY half the people who watch performances in the Octagon actually live in Bolton. It means that theatre bosses are constantly striving to get more people interested in the theatre, with emphasis placed on a varied programme. While 50 per cent of those
A BOLTON pensioner has launched a stinging attack on patients who abuse nurses, after he witnessed violent attacks in a ward at the Royal Bolton Hospital. Seventy-year-old Leonard Monks, of Farnworth, was recovering from a heart attack and says he was
RESIDENTS on a crime hit housing estate are being urged to unite to beat the menace of burglars. The Hall i'th' Wood Residents' Association has called on the public to fight back against the misery being caused by repeated break-ins on the estate. One
By Doreen Crowther, Showbusiness Correspondent AS Bolton's Octagon Theatre faces a potentially fatal cash crisis there is a question which must be asked. Is the theatre staging what the public wants to see? Because one of the reasons being given for the
MICROLAB Services in Bury has been awarded a major accreditation for its microbiology testing services. The firm, which undertakes testing for many well-known food and drinks companies in the UK and Europe, is delighted with the award from UKAS Accreditation
LEIGH Centurions prop Andy Grundy has been given a free transfer after wanting to quit Hilton Park. Grundy has been released after coach Ian Millward was unable to give a guarantee that the ex-Wigan reserve grader would be in Leigh's first choice squad
SLIMMERS have weighed in with a huge boost for cancer patients after they shed thousands of pounds. Up to 100 Weight Watchers from Atherton joined forces with others from Stretford to raise £605 for Manchester's Christie Hospital cancer centre. The cash
From the Evening News, January 18, 1974 A BOLTON amateur football club's plan to sell its two pitches for private building projects has failed. The Secretary of State for the Environment, dismissing an appeal by Wyresdale AFC against Bolton Town Council's
Six-year-old Rebekah Boyd who was diagnosed with chronic juvenile arthritis when she was 15 months old . . . IT's an often crippling condition normally associated with the elderly, but arthritis affects 14,500 children in the UK and more than half of
Heatons, 228 Chorley New Road, Horwich (5.30pm to 6.30pm). For prescriptions marked "urgent" by a doctor when chemists are closed please contact police on 0161 872 5050. Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have
YOUR readers who are worried about being fined because of their dogs leaving their dirt behind can forget it. Legislation is easy. Enactment of a law is a different matter. Take litter as an example. There are anti-litter laws, but there is more litter
THE Provincial Trust for Bolton was set up in 1953 with £15,000, but, because of wise investments, has since then been able to give away more than £200,000 to local causes. Now it is looking for applications so it can provide even more thousands! "We
TWO men were being questioned by police today following a dramatic car chase through Bolton. During the pursuit, a woman officer was injured when her patrol car was rammed three times. The car driver was only arrested after being overpowered with CS gas
ARNAR Gunnlaugsson was transfer-listed today after saying he wanted to leave Bolton Wanderers. The 14-goal Reebok top scorer, who dropped a bombshell when he officially asked for a move eight days ago, has been told he can go. Wanderers boss Colin Todd
BOLTON'S famed Octagon Theatre is facing closure, as it battles a budget deficit set to hit £ million. Council chiefs and arts bosses are now desperately trying to put together a £250,000 rescue package to stop the curtain falling on the town's major
A GOVERNMENT minister is due in town on Tuesday, January 26. Hugh Bayley, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Disability Benefits, is to open the new Bolton office which houses the town's New Deal for Disabled People initiative. Bolton is one of
A NEW economic report reveals a glimmer of hope for the North-west. The North West Chambers of Commerce quarterly economic survey shows continued deterioration in the fourth quarter of 1998. But it reveals that export markets are showing the first glimmers
WAS that not very bad reporting? Tuesday, January 5, page two, had the depressing headline " Shock rise in town's drink drive Christmas offenders." Then on page 10 (Opinion) we read "A police spokesman has explained that this year less than three pc of
Life Humour and style makes the world laugh and smile. But jealousy and hate floods the world with tears. Then the tears, so many, Turn into a river, And washes your heart away, So, more humour, more style, Let's laugh, let's smile, Then the tears of
BRIAN GRIFFIN calls himself the eternal sub. More often than he cares to remember in 50 years with Leigh company St Joseph's Players he has been called in as a late replacement. This year is no exception. He has just stepped in to play the good King Richard
BOLTON-born soprano Vanessa Nuttall, accompanied by Ted Townsend at the piano, and actress Joanna Lavelle, presents Another Evening of Music and Wit at the United Reformed Church of St Andrew and St George, on Saturday, January 30 at 7.30 pm. Vanessa
WHILE New Rosemere AOS producer George Taylor is hard at work preparing for the society's March Gilbert and Sullivan double bill of Trial by Jury and HMS Pinafore, his wife, Sue, and daughter, Helen, are looking forward to a round-the-world trip on an
WE sincerely hope that the £250,000 rescue package to save Bolton's Octagon Theatre will lift the threat to its immediate future. But it is plain that the reasons why the famous theatre is going through a cash crisis must also be addressed. Little can
As reported recently in the BEN, a survey carried out last year found that Bolton soils are contaminated with deadly dioxins at seven times the average level for the UK. Bolton Environmental Health Services agree with the Environment Agency, that this
HMS St Vincent Association's third reunion is planned for October 9, 1999. For information on membership of the Association and the "Reunion of 99", contact: Mike O'Leary, Membership Secretary, Tel/Fax 0171 628 1473, e-mail 106373.321@compuserve.com Mike
THEATRE, MUSIC & DANCE AMBASSADORS Girls' Morris Dancing Troupe, practice night for ages 5 to 15, St Andrew's Methodist Church, Tonge Moor Road, Bolton, 6.30pm-9.30pm. Tel: 01942 255484. SOCIAL sequence dancing, Turton High School, Bromley Cross,
