Ramsbottom United 1 Mossley 1 A MUCH improved performance from United held fourth in the table Mossley. The Rams took the lead right on the stroke of half time through ace marksman Steve Orrell. The visitors to the Riverside Ground levelled through Steve
I WONDER how much the rapid and comprehensive spread of the recent influenza outbreak was due to people "struggling in" to work. Many workers in Britain are intimidated by their bosses, to the extent that they are afraid to take time off even when they
Christmas is over, we can now count the cost. We did have a good time, so all is not lost. Turkey for ever, Christmas pud and mince pies. We ate as if there was no tomorrow, don't think it was wise. My trousers won't fit, they did before. Had a gusset
LESSONS at two Bolton nurseries have taken on a continental flavour with French classes for children as young as three. Full-time French assistant Annabelle Fouquet has been taken on to give the tots at Alexandra Nursery, Daubhill, and Bridgewater Nursery
AN extra birthday card may soon be on the way to Bolton's new 18-year-olds . . . from town hall chief executive Bernard Knight. The card would congratulate them on becoming an adult and remind them that they are now old enough to vote. The proposal is
A FOUR-year-old boy was left standing in the cold when teachers forgot to bring him inside after dishing out a school punishment. Now his furious parents are demanding to know how staff failed to notice that their son was missing for 40 minutes. The head
MARK Fish's international commitments could strike a hammer blow to Wanderers' defensive plans in the promotion run-in. Colin Todd, fortunate to have no fixture this weekend while the South African centre-back is away on African Nations Cup duty, won't
BOLTON MP Brian Iddon is to question British Gas about "loopholes" in its emergency service which left a Little Lever family shivering for two days. Joanne Hill and her partner Andrew Kelly opted to have pre-payment gas and electricity meters installed
BOLTON's new Mr Maths and Mrs Maths meet local primary pupils as they start work on helping schools chalk up exam success. The two numeracy supremos have been given the job of making sure maths lessons in local schools add up to test passes in numeracy
BOLTON'S town centre pigeons are high in the "pecking order" when it comes to causing a health hazard. And kind-hearted members of the public who constantly feed the birds are putting the town's environmental health officers in a flap. Their concerns
MARK Fish's international commitments could strike a hammer blow to Wanderers' defensive plans in the promotion run-in. Colin Todd, fortunate to have no fixture this weekend while the South African centre-back is away on African Nations Cup duty, won't
THE Bolton office of Business Link Bolton and Bury is moving its operation from Lower Bridgeman Street to join its parent organisation, Bolton and Bury Chamber, in Clive House, Bolton. The move to Clive Street takes place on Monday, February 1. Business
MY view on nude shopping is one word "PATHETIC". Who wants to look at various specimens of mankind while in that process? It is not even disgusting. You have seen one you have seen them all. Some more grotesque than others. If it is about shoplifting,
PARENTS will have to wait a further two weeks to find out if their child can go to the secondary school they have chosen. Councillors have agreed to delay the letters of confirmation due to go out on February 5 to prevent any confusion. Officials will
DETECTIVES hunting the killer of a frail Leigh pensioner today made a new appeal for information. Officers investigating the death of 83-year-old mugging victim Mary Povah believe distinctive details of a Ford Fiesta car could hold the key to the case
A NEW town centre manager has been appointed to promote Bolton as one the region's top shopping centres. Bury-born mother-of-three Karen Wheeldon will take over from Maria Appleton in the role which involves co-ordinating business and civic opportunities
CAMPAIGNING charities across Bolton are battling to protect a "vital" grants scheme. A 35-page petition was presented to the leader of Bolton Council, Cllr Bob Howarth, opposing the authority's plan to abolish the small grants scheme. If the council goes
WE trust that the Council is more successful with another bid following the rejection of a £20 million gambit to spruce up Breightmet, Burnden and Tonge areas. If they do manage to get some money, though, we hope that it is rather more visible, and sooner
BOLTON and Bury jobless are getting a boost from European funds to the tune of £118,324. The package announced from the European Social Fund is aimed at tackling long-term unemployment. An additional £83,854 is also earmarked for the two towns but is
A SPECIAL team has been set up to make Bolton youth clubs more minority friendly. Organisers fear some young people are not going to the clubs or using other youth services because they worry about fitting in. Now a team has been set up to make sure youth
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, January 21, 1974 THE Morecambe Bay sea barrage scheme gets the 'thumbs down' in a report out today. Instead, it is suggested that the Dee estuary in North Wales should be used for water storage, because it would cost
WHEN newspaper headlines, nationally and locally, scream about shortages of health service cash and staff, it's a refreshing change to read about a medical venture that's so successful it is expanding. But the success of Bolton Hospice has been happily
I REFER to the headline in Thursday's Bolton Evening News entitled: Salt hopper comes a cropper, and I wish to clarify the position with regard to the use of the hopper. To improve the overall effectiveness of its winter maintenance activities, including
A CONFERENCE tackling the issues of smoking and health has been cancelled because of a lack of interest. Bolton's Specialist Health Promotion Service had planned the conference but only 30 out of 2,000 organisations included in the mailshot expressed
TEENAGE boys in Bolton have slipped further behind the girls in English classes than almost anywhere else in Greater Manchester. Latest English test results show the gap between 14-year-old boys and 14-year-old girls is the widest in the county. But the
MAJOR plans for an "essential" new £1.5 million phase in the development of Bolton Hospice have been unveiled. Bolton Day Hospice will represent a natural extension to the work which has been carried out at the Chorley New Road "haven" since it opened
A WORLD renowned actor has offered his support in the battle to save Bolton's Octagon Theatre. Sir Ian McKellen says the theatre's closure would be a massive loss to the town where he grew up and was schooled. His comments were made after the BEN revealed
CUSTOMERS will soon be able to get their Macs on Route 66. Fast foot restaurant chain McDonald's has taken a half acre site on Route 66, the five acre mixed leisure and commercial scheme at Pilsworth, Bury launched by Standard Commercial Properties Securities
OWNERS of a family firm which is celebrating its centenary have invented a new word to describe themselves - "decorologists". John A Holt (Decorators) Ltd of Newnham Street, Astley Bridge, Bolton was founded by master painter John Alfred Holt in Vernon
COUNCILLORS have given the go ahead to a major review of Bolton primary schools to solve the problem of empty desks. They have agreed to the massive exercise which could lead to the closure and merger of some local schools. As reported in the BEN, education
A STRIKE by bus drivers on Monday has been called off. Bosses for Stagecoach Ribble met with Transport and General Workers Union representatives to hammer out a new pay deal. But future industrial action has not been ruled out because drivers are still
A SECURITY guard was attacked during a supermarket robbery by 10 masked thieves early today. Police said the raiders turned up at the Valley Park Road Tesco store in Prestwich in three cars, one of which is known to have been stolen. As they entered the
TODAY sees the launch of Bolton's Millennium Jobs Challenge ... an ambitious initiative to tackle unemployment in the town. EVERY DAY until the year 2000, the Challenge Team has pledged to find at least one unemployed person a job. The Evening News, Bolton
LIFE'S a gas for a group of Leigh Centurions' fans. The newly-formed Leigh Independent Supporters Association (LISA) have struck a sponsorship deal with British Gas that could be worth as much as £200,000. Although the final details have still to be hammered
BOLTON West MP Ruth Kelly is to meet British Aerospace management this week to seek assurances that the merger of the company with GEC Marconi will not cost jobs at the firm's Lostock missile factory. She arranged the meeting as staff considered the impact
THE BEN'S story about heartless thieves who stole a television set from an intensive care ward relatives' room struck a chord - with a load of cowboys! A big-hearted team from the country and western club at Little Lever Labour Club were so appalled at
I COULDN'T agree more with the letter sent in by George K Brown, January 6. National Insurance is the way forward. Had this excellent scheme been run efficiently by Governments past, ample money would be available now, and in the future, for pensions.
BURY MP Ivan Lewis has suggested to the Government that the local national health service and council social services departments should be merged. In a speech to the House of Commons he welcomed the way that primary care groups were replacing the divisive
ONLY a handful of people dared to bare all at Britain's first nude shopping evening in Worsley last night. And there were mixed views among those who took their clothes off about whether the concept of naked shopping would really take off. Harwood man
