IN these days of economic uncertainty stresses and strains at the workplace are commonplace. And that seems to have been the case in the 1950s at Sleep-Tite Pajama factory. But here the workers labour relations gripes, industrial disputes, and dealings
IAN Millward has had the best bit of injury news since the season started. Injured trio Craig Dean, Heath Cruickshank and Paul Wingfield could all be back in action within a month. Fears that skipper and play-maker Dean would need immediate surgery on
YOUR editorial of January 20 urges the Wigan and Bolton Health Authority to bang on the Prime Minister's door to demand more resources for all the departments of the Royal Bolton Hospital. You can rest assured that the Health Authority misses no opportunity
A STUNNING Bolton girl is the star of the Internet's first ever soap opera - Launderama. Ruth Higham, from Harwood, has been chosen to play Glo White - the soap's bubbly, blonde bombshell, who has a passion for Dr Beckman, a diminutive, ginger-haired
BOLTON Wanderers will celebrate their 2,000th home league game on Saturday by handing out free tickets to 1,000 lucky local schoolchildren. The milestone match against Crewe Alexandra will be the first of a two-part celebration that will involve a massive
DANISH midfielder Tommy Schramm will get his second trial game in Wanderers Reserves tomorrow night. The 27-year-old former Brondby player, currently playing part-time with Herfolge in the Danish Super League, impressed in the 2nd Xl win at West Brom
BURY today appealed against the sending off of midfielder Darren Bullock 11 minutes into his debut on Saturday. Bury today allowed Ayr United to take defender Dean Barrick on loan for a month. Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images
Please inform the author of Looking back at Horwich in the February issue of Just You that it was Napoleon who said that England was a nation of shopkeepers, not Disraeli. B W Tyas Cooper Breckland Drive, Heaton Editor's note: Well spotted, and we apologies
FARNWORTH Little Theatre has been chosen to host this year's Greater Manchester Drama Federation One Act Play Festival which starts on May 31. The theatre is delighted to be given the honour. There are three sections in the festival: Junior (under 14)
While doing my chores, There was a knock on the door, I answered to a man I'd never seen before. He thrust in my arms a huge bouquet, Amazing I thought, but this is OK. There are blossoms of white, pink and blue, Orange and yellow and purple, just to
IT'S good news that Bolton Council is to review its photocopying prices for planning documents. The idea of charging £30 for one A4 sheet is plaingly ludicrous. Away from the knee-jerk reaction, however, is a serious worry about hampering democracy. Simply
PAUL Topham who started his stage career with St Peter's Methodist AODS has landed a top singing job with the Butlin's holiday organisation. Terry Bowden, producer of St Peter's shows, said: "We are all delighted for Paul who was only in his teens when
STEVE Cunningham has agreed to stay on as Atherton LR manager until the end of the season. The Crilly Park team boss tendered his resignation to the club board after Saturday's 5-1 home humiliation by next to bottom club in the North Western Trains League
I've been told that I should stop "moaning," That I should find something better to do. Buy a pair of rose-coloured glasses, And through these, get a much better view. If only things were so simple, If the sun always shone every day. If we never had thunder
BOLTON Sinfonietta, under its Music Director Paul Payton, continue their two year journey through the Beethoven Symphonies with a concert at Bolton School Arts Centre this Saturday at 7.30 pm. They will play No 8 and No 6 (The Pastoral, both in F Major
Wed Feb 24: Dysons, 51 Lee Lane, Horwich (5.30pm to 6.30pm). Sun Feb 28: Nash, 15 Devon Street (9am to 10pm); Landmark, 12 Chorley New Road (9am to 1pm and 2pm to 11pm); Cohens, 576 Blackburn Road (9am to 10pm); Hunt and Marsden, Asda, Brackley Street
JIMMY Clean Clogs was one of the most loved people of the town. He was smartly dressed with his jet black hair parted in the middle. The clogs were always polished and, as I remember, had a brass piece on front which was polished too. J Cummings Devon
THEATRE, MUSIC & DANCE ST Paul's (Astley Bridge) AOS present The Pajama Game at Theatre Church, Seymour Road at 7.30pm. Tel: 843391. BOLTON Music Service activities include Bolton Youth Brass Band practising from 6pm-9pm and Bolton Intermediate Brass
AS an ex fireman on a recent visit to Bolton, I was saddened to see the general state of neglect of the old Marsden Road fire station. Surely something could be done to renovate and put to some useful purpose such a prominent building in the centre of
BURY schools have once again put in a table-topping performance. Compared with neighbouring authorities and also the borough's Ofsted statistical neighbours in the Key Stage 2 performance tables, Bury has taken first place in all three core subjects of
A BOLTON doctor has taken his campaign to actively promote immunisation against the common childhood illnesses to a former Communist stronghold. Dr Robert Aston, Consultant in Communicable Disease Control with Wigan and Bolton Health Authority, has just
A SECLUDED lodge, described as a wildlife haven, could be under threat from developers. Star Lodge, linked to the Horwich textile firm Star Vale - which shut two weeks ago with the loss of 65 jobs - could be sold off, owners Whitecroft plc have revealed
BOLTON'S Sharon Bass is the perfect advert for mums everywhere . . . and thanks to her daughter, Nicole, everyone is going to know about it. The six-year-old youngster presented the perfect picture of her "most beautiful" mum to Oil of Ulay competition
HEADTEACHER Angela Smith has branded the league tables "a nonsense" after her school came bottom in Bolton. Mrs Smith says the tables do not take account of special circumstances facing schools such as Johnson Fold, which has a large number of children
AN incredible 1,568 motorists were caught speeding on Bolton's roads - in a THREE week police crackdown. And the vast majority of the motorists, detected by speed cameras, still have no idea that they have been caught out. The drivers will only become
A LOW budget horror movie filmed in Leigh, Atherton and Tyldesley at a cost of just £200 is wowing American audiences. Homebrew cost less to make than the price of a Hollywood star's hotel room for the night. But the over-the-top collaboration between
BOLTON Wanderers will celebrate their 2,000th home league game on Saturday by handing out free tickets to 1,000 lucky local schoolchildren. The milestone match against Crewe Alexandra will be the first of a two-part celebration that will involve a massive
BOLTON Council is to review its photocopying prices after it came under fire for charging £30 for one A4 sheet of planning document. Bolton's head of planning control, Howard Barritt, says that feedback from the public is always looked at by his department
SOLICITORS Widdows Mason have moved to a new office in Bolton town centre. They are now at Delta House, Bark Street after moving from Princess Street. The six-partner firm,whose head office is at Leigh, also has offices at Westhoughton, Atherton, Warrington
THE cost of big business fraud rose in the North-west last year, it was revealed today. Figures compiled by KPMG Forensic Accounting show that there were five reported cases of large, serious fraud totalling £1,865,000. This compared with three cases
TEVYE the Milkman will be thinking what he would do if he were a rich man at Adlington Community Centre next month. From March 1 to 6, St Paul's Amateur Players will present Fiddler on the Roof. The story, set in 1905, revolves around Reb Tevye who lives
MUMS-to-be are being offered a unique experience to help them through the trials and tribulations of pregnancy. Midwives at the Princess Anne Maternity Unit, are offering expectant women aromatherapy and massage sessions. The sessions are the brainchild
THE old saying "history repeats" has never been so true as today. Mussolini's son was to say how happy he was to bomb defenceless Ethiopian tribesmen. Then we know how the Luftwaffe passed their final operational training supporting the Fascist France
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, February 22, 1974 A FISH so ugly that housewives probably won't be allowed to look at it whole in the shops is being considered as an answer to the cod shortage. 'Grenadier and chips, please', may become a familiar
By Doreen Crowther, Showbusiness Correspondent ACTRESS Sue Devaney seems to have been cast very much against type in the Octagon's production of How the Other Half Loves which opens next week. The outgoing, vivacious and extremely eloquent Sue plays Mary
TEST results out today show Bolton 11-year-olds achieved some of the best and the worst results in the country. Local primary schools are named in both the top 200 roll of honour AND the bottom 200 list of shame published today. Top of the class locally
