MANY a Thursday night I look at the vacancies placed by Bolton Council in the employment section of the BEN and try to guess what some of the fancy titled and well-paid jobs entail. The Business.Com page (Monday, July 10), though, really left me baffled
Diana: A candle in the window I INCREASINGLY find that my respect for the Royal Family is going into rapid decline. No-one can be in any doubt, after their many snubs, that they seem hell bent in their mission to erase the memory of Diana, Princess of
A FEW months ago you published a letter written by someone regarding your newspaper printing the names and addresses of people who have defaulted or are in arrears with their Council Tax. You use the words "name and shame". I agree totally with everything
IPSWICH Town could be about to launch a new bid to take Claus Jensen to Portman Road when manager George Burley returns from holiday today. And Charlton are considering putting together a £5m package for both Jensen and Mark Fish, who was the subject
THE first fully integrated hotel stadium in the UK is on schedule to open in the North West. The De Vere Group Plc and Burnden Leisure, the parent holding company of Bolton Wanderers FC, have set up a joint venture to develop the £12 million De Vere Whites
DARCY Lever's league woes just seem to get worse. Facing Edgworth's modest total of 128-8, they started okay at 20-1 before the bottom fell out of their batting. They lost the next four wickets for just 10 runs and went on to collapse to an all out reply
BLACKROD'S Alan Harrison and David Aldred refused to lie down and die as Atherton went in for the kill. Atherton's opening total of 250-3, in which pro Andrew Hall hit a magnificent unbeaten 109, Jonathan Hyde 64 and Philip Wakefield 43 not out, was well
LEIGH Centurions will have home advantage against Oldham in the Northern Ford Premiership final next week. Oldham's 24-17 victory at Doncaster means Leigh will meet Oldham at Hilton Park. Meanwhile, local MPs have backed Leigh's bid to join the Super
KEARSLEY took a massive step towards clinching the championship when they won the showdown with nearest rivals Egerton. It wasn't so much the victory but the manner in which it was recorded that should send alarm bells ringing around their fellow title
Musical nights THE WRIGHTS ARMS, Belmont Road, Bolton. Friday July 28, Stacey Grant, female vocalist. For details of all events ring Bolton 811206. BULLS HEAD PUB, (Bottom Bull), Bury Road, Bolton. Live bands Fridays and Saturdays, 9pm. Ring Bolton 523855
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, July 16, 1975 ALLEGATIONS that the village of Blackrod has been neglected since its inclusion in Bolton Metropolitan Borough were rejected today by Bolton Council officials. Blackrod councillors say their once neatly
LEISURE, SPORT, KEEP FIT BOLTON Excel, Lower Bridgeman Street, tel: 334456: 50+ bowls, 10am-12 noon; circuits, 6pm-7pm and 7pm-8pm. HORWICH Leisure Centre, Victoria Road, tel: 334488: main pool, 7am-7pm; step class, 12 noon-1pm; aerobics, 1pm-2pm; ladies
YOUNG and old gathered to unveil a Millennium cross in Turton to mark the new century in unity. The oldest resident from the villages of Chapeltown and Edgworth, Mrs Jennie Whittaker, aged 91, joined the youngest nursery school girl, Clare Conway, aged
A BOLTON mum touched by reading in the BEN of the plight of pregnant burglary victim Rebecca Feeney has come forward to give her new baby clothes. Victoria Engmann was moved to donate the clothes after learning how sick thieves broke into seven-months
I NOTICED an article recently showing bowlers from Darbyshire Park bowling club, each contrasting in dress, snapped as they were 60 years apart. Both had much in common, mainly the enjoyment gained from the pleasurable nature of a game which dates back
RECENTLY I read an article in the BEN about the fears of town center traders as to the growth of suburban shopping malls such as Middlebrook, Trafford Center, etc. I have seen first hand the results of urban decay and the massive cost involved putting
I AM writing about the recent BEN stories that Bolton Council wants to flatten 100 homes on De Lacy Drive because it has been a very troublesome area for many years because of crime and drugs. If the plans are passed, then they will have to re-house 100
HAVING four grandchildren, and another due any day now, it would be nice to think that their teeth could be protected by a perfectly safe water additive. Dr Fisher, Red Rose Dental Group, replying to my recent letter, says, categorically, that fluoride
WHY is it that certain dog owners are so piqued by justifiable criticism of the filthy mess left around our streets, cemeteries and country parks, that they write such pathetic letters to the BEN as exemplified in the July 10 edition? C Woods's remarks
Moor Lane Bus Station: Public transport facility or commerical money spinner? MRS B Stuart of Bromley Cross (Your Views, July 10) is only too correct about the private transport operators running our so-called public transport services, and doing very
It's make or break time for Bolton's colourful collection of trialists tonight when Wanderers complete their Danish pre-season tour against Odense. And unless the continental assortments impress manager Sam Allardyce they can forget any chance of a permanent
Lyngby 6 Wanderers 0 A player not thought good enough to enhance Bolton's team and later rejected by Coventry City stood head and shoulders above Sam Allardyce's Foreign Legion of contract seekers during this slaughter in the sun. And considering he was
THE North-west Development Agency has appointed Helen France as area team manager to lead and co-ordinate regeneration efforts in Greater Manchester. Helen, who lives in Trafford, has been leading the Single Regeneration Budget and Rural Programmes across
Debbie Nichols points out the attractions to visitors BUSINESS people taking part in a series of Reebok Stadium open days were given a sneak preview of the £12 million De Vere Whites Hotel due to open on October 30. The 125-bedroom hotel, part of the
LITTLE Hulton and Adlington kept the pressure on leaders Walshaw who had to work hard for a draw at home to Spring View. The leaders looked to be heading for defeat when View were on 130-2 in reply to the home side's 186-8. But Walshaw showed they have
TWO Eagley prodigies, Emma Tootell and Simon Roberts, who have been hitting the headlines in junior tennis circles for a number of years, proved in the BSF Tennis Championships on Saturday that they are now ready for the senior ranks. Indeed, Emma has
FOR any Lostock and Horwich residents unfamiliar with Oasis, it must have seemed an extremely odd sight to watch thousands of swaggering young lads heading for the Reebok stadium on Saturday afternoon. More than four hours before the band were actually
LOOKING back it seems quite apt that brothers Liam and Noel chose to call their band Oasis. It was at one point, of course, entitled Rain and had there been a downpour on that superlative Saturday night of rock 'n' roll then that too would have been fitting
JUST when it seemed the 33,000 strong crowd might finally combust with excitement, a track from the latest album, "F***in' in the Bushes", ushered Oasis on stage and they strolled towards the audience looking as if they had never been away Liam shouted
By Jane Bullock. JUST when it seemed the 33,000 strong crowd might finally combust with excitement, a track from the latest album, "F***in' in the Bushes", ushered Oasis on stage and they strolled towards the audience looking as if they had never been
The teacher in the centre of this 1922 photograph of Form 2 at the old Church Institute (later Canon Slade), at the end of Silverwell Street, Bolton, was Miss Margaret Aspinall. Previous to 1878, the school had been boys only, but in that year it was
Darcy Lever v Edgworth WHEN John Norris won the toss he had no hesitation in asking Edgworth to bat on what was quite understandably a green pitch. Edgworth had Peter Scuse as their deputy pro for the still indisposed Paul Tebay, and he opened the batting
FUNDRAISERS are trekking across Morecambe Bay to raise money for Bury Hospice. The sponsored walk will take place on Sunday, September 10, and all proceeds will go to hospice funds. The walk will begin at 4pm from the ramp at Arnside, Cumbria. Coaches
ARE there any adventurous Boltonions who fancy an afternoon of fun in aid of a good cause? The British Lung Foundation is looking for volunteers to take part in a unique "It's A Knockout" charity event on Sunday, August 6. Teams of 10 will play crazy
AN Oasis fan was killed in a motorway accident just minutes after he left the Reebok Stadium where he had watched his heroes. Bryn Daniel Thorpe, aged 19, from Wardley Avenue, Little Hulton, died after he was injured in a collision with a car on the M61
MARRIED men who are attracted to other men are being offered secret help as Bolton launches a new sex support group. Health experts have taken the lead from sea-side town Portsmouth who have been inundated by calls for help after launching its own self-help
A HUGE crowd of more than 6,000 wellwishers are expected to attend the grand opening of a Bolton Hindu temple which has been transformed into an Arts and Cultural Centre. For the last two years five artists from India have been working on a 2,400 square
A POIGNANT montage of photographs showing the faces of young men from Turton killed in their prime in the First World War could be the only one of its kind in the country. The 144 photographs, some faded with age, are being studied by the charity Friends
