TAKE him up on it! Cllr Jack Foster, chairman of planning and environment, wants to know YOUR views on the plans for a massive overhaul of Bolton town centre. He's right in saying that the people who use the centre should give their views. It's up to
MY NAME is Greg Searle, the British Olympic rower. I am looking for 60 daredevils to join a fantastic white water rafting expedition down the Zambezi River, Zimbabwe, in October 1999, in aid of the charity Scope (formerly The Spastics Society). The gruelling
DEPUTY Prime Minister John Prescott has given the go ahead to a multi-million pound housing development in Bromley Cross. Planning permission has been granted for a scheme to create homes at the derelict Eagley Mills site. The go ahead also means that
BURY is setting out to to break new ground in educating children from ethnic minorities. As the Office for Standards in Education announce serious under achievement of some minority ethnic groups in schools nationally, Bury is already taking significant
LAND seized by Bolton Council for the town's newest leisure development was worth nearly DOUBLE the maximum they were prepared to pay for it. A Lands Tribunal has ruled that Tudor Properties Ltd and McGrath and Walsh should be paid £2.27 million compensation
COLIN Todd admitted he was as much in the dark as anyone today as the 'Scott Sellars for England' speculation continued. The 33-year-old Wanderers captain has been tipped for a surprise call as Kevin Keegan looks for a solution to his problems on the
THANK you for the tickets which I won recently for the New Rosemere Amateur Operatic Society's double bill of Trial by Jury and HMS Pinafore. We enjoyed a superb evening of entertainment. We had a most enjoyable time. Thank you also to New Rosemere for
BOLTON businessmen and women are 'sold' on an idea designed to increase sales and retail success for Farnworth companies. The scheme, a first for Farnworth, is being organised by Bolton Business Ventures Limited, and takes place weekly. Its aim is to
DIRECTORS of a Bolton-based leisure company are gunning for success with a major new development at the Camelot Theme Park near Chorley. Nick Brunt, a 33-year-old entrepreneur, has already had one major success - an international Laser Quest business
I DISAGREE with Brian Derbyshire's letter in the BEN, March 11, about charging to use the public toilets. I travel by bus into town and find that I have to visit the toilets at least once - more in cold weather. I notice the suggestion came from a man
NORTH-West representatives were today lobbying Trade and Industry Secretary Stephen Byers to keep special help for the region. The Government is re-drawing the Assisted Area Status Map, which decides which parts of Britain get Westminstder and Brussels
TWO local dog owners have come away from Crufts with Best of Breed awards. Custos Stryke a Pose, a Bazenji hound whose pet name is Taz after the Tasmanian Devil, won Best of Breed at the show in London. The Bazenji is a hunting dog that comes originally
WE welcome the decision by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott who has given the go-ahead to a multi-million housing development at Bromley Cross. Homes will be created at the derelict Eagley Mills. This should improve the area for residents already living
I HAVE always found the visible stars which humanity has used to tell the seasons of the year and to guide its travellers, sufficient on a clear evening. A telescope might be useful, however, to discern the face of the Town Hall clock at night. If we,
THEATRE, MUSIC & DANCE RMI and District Operatic Societies present Half a Sixpence, Horwich Leisure Centre, Victoria Road, 7.30pm; Tel: 692211. SALFORD Operatic and Drama Society present Carousel, Lancastrian Hall, Chorley Road, Swinton, 7.30pm. Adults
THE producers of the Holly and the Ivy must have been kicking themselves. The play set at Christmas time opened on the hottest day of the year so far. With references to deep snow outside, it was actually a beautiful evening in real life Manchester. But
LEIGH RMI take a slender lead into next Tuesday's second-leg of the President's Cup semi-final after beating Runcorn 1-0 in the first at Hilton Park last night. Newcomer Tony Black scored the only goal of the game in the 20th minute, his second in as
CLLR Paul Fitzpatrick claims the class sizes of infant schools will be reduced thanks to his Labour Government. How many of these reductions will be due to the declining number of pupils, as reported in the BEN? Does he not bother to read the BEN? By
THE one and only hospital in the area is badly sited and badly planned. However, in order to waste still more Health Service money three new groups are to be formed (with no more beds) which will result in still more chairmen, more chief executives, more
BOLTON pupils will raise the rafters during an unusual lesson - in roofing! Fifty children from the Withins High school will mingle with local builders and contractors at a special exhibition in the town tomorrow. And the young crew will get a chance
COLBY Hunt really is full of beans - his mum believes it's thanks to the teatime favourite he was born! To save up for expensive IVF treatment, his parents, from Leigh, substituted their normal meat and two veg dinner with beans. And after a year of munching
FORGET the traditional Three Rs. A Bolton secondary school is adding a new R to its "curriculum" this weekend - Rock. A rock workshop is just one of several events in the Art for Arts' Sake Festival starting on Friday at Rivington and Blackrod High School
STAFF and pupils at a Bolton Catholic primary school are celebrating after chief inspector Chris Woodhead gave them a clean bill of health. Three years ago St Bernard's RC Primary was forced to merge with neighbouring St Ethelbert's to escape possible
FIVE firemen were arrested today in a police probe into allegations that firefighters made hoax calls and started blazes to increase their wages. The part-time firemen - all based at Horwich Fire Station - were arrested after detectives swooped on their
A STRUGGLING local child will be able to take extra English classes during the summer holidays thanks to the Bolton Evening News. The BEN is the first local company to pay for an 11-year-old boy or girl from Bolton to attend a summer literacy programme
A 53-year-old former Bolton cricketer has collapsed and died while playing the game in New Zealand. Brian Kendall played for Egerton between 1967 and 1974 appearing in the club's two successful Hamer Cup final wins in 1970 and 71. He later emigrated to
BURY'S first team squad head for the Cheltenham Festival today, it's to be hoped they enjoy more luck on the horses than they encountered during this game. A third consecutive goalless draw in successive home matches was scant reward for probably their
BARTON Grange Garden Centre at Bolton has won the prestigious Garden Retailer of the Year competition. Gardening retail outlets around the country were marked and judged on excellence, staff training and expertise, overall standards and customer services
IN July I will be travelling on the Royal British Legion Pilgrimage to Berlin and Colditz. This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the ending of the Berlin Airlift and while in Berlin we will be holding a Service of Remembrance at the Commonwealth War
STUDENTS from poorer homes will still be able to get cash help for further education courses after Bolton education chiefs refused to ditch discretionary grants. New rules mean the council could have refused to pay discretionary awards for students facing
25 YEARS AGO THE great Sunday soccer boom is coming to an end - for the time being. The League announced today that no more Sunday matches will be allowed after a week tomorrow except for four already sanctioned. The Sunday matches were allowed only because
Wednesday March 17: Heatons, 228 Chorley New Road, Horwich (5.30pm to 6.30pm). Sunday March 21: Nash, 15 Devon Street (9am to 10pm); Landmark, 12 Chorley New Road (9am to 1pm and 2pm to 11pm); Gatley, 24 Tonge Old Road (noon - 1pm); Gordons, 193 Bolton
