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• What's on in and around Bolton, Thursday, 18/3/99

  THEATRE, MUSIC & DANCE RMI and District Operatic Societies present Half a Sixpence, Horwich Leisure Centre, Victoria Road, 7.30pm; Tel: 692211. read more

• Good marks school taken off blacklist

  STAFF and pupils at a Bolton Catholic primary school are celebrating after chief inspector Chris Woodhead gave them a clean bill of health. read more

• What a wonderful show!

  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. read more

• Rhythm, rock 'n' roll are the new Three Rs

  FORGET the traditional Three Rs. A Bolton secondary school is adding a new R to its "curriculum" this weekend - Rock. read more

• Beanz meanz babies!

  COLBY Hunt really is full of beans - his mum believes it's thanks to the teatime favourite he was born! read more

• Sellars to get Kev's call?

  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 left of midfield. read more

• Leisure complex land deal shock

  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. read more

• Schools project aims to break language barrier

  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 steps to address the situation. The issue is being tackled through the Education Development Plan for 1999-2002 and if the necessary funding is obtained, the Curriculum Language Access Service will work with schools to set targets for pupils who have English as an additional language and are of Pakistani heritage. read more

• High School pupils all set to raise the roof

  BOLTON pupils will raise the rafters during an unusual lesson - in roofing! read more

• Homes scheme gets green light

  DEPUTY Prime Minister John Prescott has given the go ahead to a multi-million pound housing development in Bromley Cross. read more

• Charity rafting

  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). read more

• Hospital's badly planned

  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 directors and, of course, more offices and car parks for staff only. It is also certain that these people will not serve on a voluntary basis. read more

• OPINION: Tell him

  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. read more

• Surplus desks

  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 2002, Bolton will have a surplus of more than 5,000 desks in schools. Will Labour claim responsibility for this? read more

• NON-LEAGUE: RMI gain upper hand

  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 many matches for RMI, when he raced through the Linnets' defence to slot home from an acute angle. read more

• Firemen arrested in arson probe

  FIVE firemen were arrested today in a police probe into allegations that firefighters made hoax calls and started blazes to increase their wages. read more

• BEN leads the way on summer schools

  A STRUGGLING local child will be able to take extra English classes during the summer holidays thanks to the Bolton Evening News. read more

• Stars to guide us

  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. read more

• CHEMISTS open in the Bolton area:

  Wednesday March 17: Heatons, 228 Chorley New Road, Horwich (5.30pm to 6.30pm). read more

• OPINION: Better homes than industry

  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. read more

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