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• GYMNASTICS: Janet is the Master

  JANET Swain will be remembered as a ginger haired terrier on the hockey pitch at Turton High School two decades ago. She was renowned for always coming good in the second-half of the match - despite being diagnosed as an insulin dependent diabetic when she was just nine years old. read more

• Family may act after cancer link probe

  A BOLTON family, who believe their son died because of exposure to electromagnetic fields in their home, say they are considering restarting legal action in the light of new evidence linking cancer and power lines. read more

• Beloit may shed more jobs

  FIFTY five workers are to lose their jobs at trouble hit Beloit Walmsley in Bolton - just a week after administrators were called in. read more

• Bolton or Benidorm? It's a taxing question

  A MAN fighting an order for unpaid road tax claims his car was fully taxed and in BENIDORM on the day it was supposed to have been seen without a valid disc in Bolton. read more

• Hook 'could have blinded tot'

  A FURIOUS grandmother has claimed that her two-year-old grand-daughter could have been blinded after she stumbled into a shop display. read more

• This sorry story

  YOUR article about the grieving couple left penniless for a month, is such a sorry story and very similar to be treatment by the Benefits Agency. read more

• Drugs shame at top school

  A PUPIL has been expelled from Bolton's top independent school after being caught drug dealing on the premises. read more

• Is another the largest jigsaw?

  I REFER to your article in the BEN, Tuesday, November 23: 'World's largest jigsaw 12,096 pieces'. read more

• Replica home for gas blast pensioner

  WORK is due to start shortly on a new home for a pensioner whose bungalow was destroyed in as massive gas explosion. read more

• WHITE HOT!

  A WALK on the wild side saw Bolton's Brian White come face to face with a lioness, charged by angry elephants and stranded in a mountain pass . . . yet he couldn't be snap happier! read more

• Thieves' spree nets £20,000 from sheds

  THIEVES have escaped with property worth a staggering £20,000 in 43 garage and shed crimes committed in the Horwich area, Crimebeat can reveal today. read more

• Security champion Ella dies

  TRIBUTES have been paid to one of Bolton's leading crime-fighting citizens. read more

• Boy is hero as house burns

  A NINE-YEAR-OLD boy saved his family after he spotted a fire while watching television. read more

• My precious mementoes

  I AM ever hopeful that the person who took my wallet at 1.05pm, Friday, November 26, from a shop in Newport Street, will return the never-to-be-replaced contents (minus the cash of course) to me. read more

• We're concerned with the risk to many people

  "WITH all types of pleasure there goes an element of risk" - so says D Hough (Your Views, November 17), referring to fireworks, and objecting to the BEN firework petition, on the grounds that he/she is one of a great number of people who 'enjoy the spectacle of Bonfire Night'. read more

• Outrage at waste of our money

  I am writing to express my outrage at the waste of taxpayers' money spent on police stalking gay men on the outskirts of Bolton. One would think this was all happening in a residential area causing offence to families etc but, this is a remote area miles away from anywhere where gay men choose to meet other gay men in the discreet seclusion of a small area of woodland. read more

• Driver Gary joins roll of honour

  LORRY driver Gary Bickerdike, who lives in Westhoughton, has joined other outstanding employees on Rentokil Initial's "Be Proud" roll of honour. read more

• Profitable Allen building for another record year

  BLACKROD-based Allen plc has recorded its 13th successive rise in half year profits before tax. read more

• Investors award is icing on the cake

  A LOCAL boss described how Investors in People boosted his business. read more

• What's on in and around Bolton, Wednesday, 1.12.99

  LEISURE, SPORT & KEEP FIT BOLTON Excel, Lower Bridgeman Street, tel: 334456: ladies only, 1.30pm-3pm; aerobics, 6pm-7pm; yoga, 7.30pm-9pm. read more

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