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• What's on in and around Bolton, Friday, 6.8.99

  THEATRE, MUSIC AND DANCE COMEDY of Errors, Turton Tower, 7.30pm.Tel: 852203. read more

• Public duty

  I CANNOT believe the scandalous amount of taxpayers' money that is paid to councillors who have volunteered to do a public duty. read more

• Flood couple's housing fury

  A COUPLE with three children are furious that they have not been re-housed after freak floods devastated their home. read more

• Promises, promises, promises!

  I write to express my regrets regarding the proposed Bolton primary school closures and to sympathise with all voters who were seduced by Mr Blair's promises including: Education, education, education! read more

• Rail group lets off station steam

  A RAIL users' group set up to keep track of the Blackburn and Bolton line has slammed two of the area's stations. read more

• Asking for a ban on golf only

  AFTER reading your report (BEN, July 31)headed: Residents fear young golfers, I feel I must correct what was obviously a misunderstanding. It has never been my intention for ball games to be banned from the field at the rear of my house, only the playing of golf. read more

• 'Change system' after £1,000 gas reading

  BOLTON MP Ruth Kelly is calling for changes in the system after three constituents found themselves hit with hefty gas arrears bills because their meters had been set wrongly. read more

• Eye nurse labours for top award

  A TREATMENT best known for reducing labour pains is being used in Bolton to help patients undergoing eye treatment. read more

• Cup ticket news

  THE all-ticket restriction on Wanderers' Worthington Cup opener at Darlington next Tuesday has been lifted by the Third Division club. read more

• Cuban wheels mission

  A BOLTON financial adviser is set to bike his way across Cuba in a gruelling ride for charity. read more

• Goodbye, we're off to our new home!

  BOLTON'S Community Education Service is "untying the knot" with Queen Street School - after 25 years. read more

• A wonderfully warm welcome for the foreign students

  LAST year, your paper kindly published our appeal for local families to host 16-year-old foreign students. On behalf of the students who came to the area, I'd like to thank you and your readers warmly for the wonderful welcome our students received. read more

• We must lead by example

  I REFER to the word on the Austin Powers film poster. read more

• Shocked at poster

  I WAS shocked to see the poster The Spy Who S.....d Me. read more

• Action needed on water

  MY letter, published on July 2, refers to the condition of Kearsley Railway Station - prior to the flood. read more

• Still searching

  ON April 5, 1989, 96 Liverpool football fans lost their lives, and over 400 were injured due to the criminal negligence of those whose duty it was to ensure their safety. Even today, those responsible have not been brought to account, while the families and survivors have been kicked in the teeth on a regular basis. We have searched for the truth now for 10 years, only to find that, each time we get near to it, someone has been there before us and hidden it inside the legal framework. It is now time that the truth finally came out and, with your help, we are a step closer to it. NO FAN, NO SUPPORTER, should ever have suffered like those 96 and like the survivors did. Hillsborough could have happened to anyone, any other club and any other supporters. It could have been someone in your family, but Liverpool supporters were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Football supporters are the "footsoldiers" of our Campaign for Justice, and we appeal for all of you to put your weight behind our Campaign for Justice. The more campaigners we have, the more chance we have of achieving justice. Every new member is another string to our bow. Another weapon with which to fight our corner and achieve the justice we deserve. I am asking people to forget football rivalry for a moment and think of human beings who have lost their lives and those responsible haven't been brought to justice for it. It isn't about football. Iit's about lives. With your help we are a step closer. read more

• We had so much respect for Royals

  AS you know, yesterday was the Queen Mother's 99th birthday, a very special birthday. read more

• 'Stalinist' row over extra pay

  A LABOUR councillor has accused Liberal Democrat controlled Westhoughton council of wasting taxpayers' money and running the council like something out of Stalinist Russia. read more

• 'Electric powered' refuse tip reopens

  BOLTON'S busiest rubbish dump has reopened - six weeks after work began on the site's incinerator. read more

• Patient figures give hospital a real tonic

  A NORTH West hospital which specialises in joint replacement surgery is attracting more and more patients from the Bolton area. read more

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