AT the end of last year, on the corner of King Street and Market Street, Farnworth, the Council, or someone working for them, laid a nice green and fenced it off. At the end of last month, someone working for the council came and dug three-quarters of
WE have just returned from visiting my son in Toronto, Canada, and I, too, found it very clean, no litter anywhere not even on the underground. Also they recycle most things, the council give them plastic boxes, one for papers one for plastic bottles
THE girlfriend of Wanderers' sought after midfield star Claus Jensen could have a big say in which club he plays for next season. He had been expected to decide between Ipswich and Charlton this afternoon after both clubs had met Wanderers' £4m asking
A CAMERA containing wedding photographs taken at a wedding at Ridgmont House, Horwich, last weekend, has been lost. The camera, belonging to Andrea Harrison, complete with film, was found to be missing early on Sunday. The family is now offering a small
TWO men threatened a club steward with a knife and escaped with £7,000 early today. The pair broke into Little Hulton Labour Club on Manchester Road West and woke the steward and stewardess. They ordered the steward to open the safe and then tied him
HOME Secretary Jack Straw has congratulated Lancashire Police on having the biggest cut in crime in the country in the past year. But he has highlighted the difference in offending rates in his Blackburn constituency and Bolton. The two areas are in the
AN "out of the blue" reaction to anaesthetic led to the death of a 42-year-old Prestwich woman. But why it had affected sex change patient Jamie Egerton as she was about to have a simple nose operation remained a mystery, a Manchester inquest was told
Carnival atmosphere at Odense IMAGINE Atherton LR without the stands and you will have some idea of the Icefield Stadium at Horne, a southern outpost on the Island of Fyn. It was just a grass bank to sit on with a few chairs outside the beer tent, then
THE players competing in the annual BSF Tennis Tournament enjoyed glorious sunny conditions at the Bolton School venue. Top seed and defending champion in the Men's Singles, Martin Robinson, was unable to play due to injury and had to scratch. He is however
LEISURE, SPORT AND KEEP FIT BOLTON Excel, Lower Bridgeman Street, tel: 334456: 50+ badminton, table tennis, squash and gym, 1pm-3pm; body conditioning, 2pm-3pm. DEANE Leisure Centre, Junction Road, Deane, tel: 334432: aerobics, 8pm-9pm; swim lessons,
TWO former Mayors of Bolton will tonight be made honorary aldermen in recognition of their long council service. They are former Blackrod councillor Eric Johnson and former Westhoughton councillor Peter Finch. Mr Johnson did not seek re-election in May's
MILLIONS of TV viewers last night watched outrageous Nichola Holt insult Bolton women - before stripping naked and smearing herself in clay. The 28-year-old, of Turton Road, Bradshaw, is one of 10 volunteers whose every move is being filmed in a house
HOSPITAL bosses will have to hit strict performance targets if they are to get a share of extra National Health Service cash. As reported in the BEN, £660 million extra was granted to the NHS by the Chancellor in his Budget statement earlier this year
A GROUP of Bolton workers from pipe laying company Transco took up a tough fund-raising challenge in Cumbria -- and ended up "gassing" with Prince Andrew. The group were invited to St James Palace in London for a personal congratulations from His Royal
Jasmine with 18-month-old Ivan who luckily made a quick recovery after nibbling a laurel bush BOLTON parents are being warned to keep an eye on their children playing in parks after a toddler became seriously ill after eating laurel bud. Ivan Warburton
IT'S all very well Brava, Mr Corns and Co taking pot shots at the Queen Mother but just put yourself in her position for the moment. For the past few months every time you nip out to the corner shop or down to the bookies, crowds of people are standing
I FEEL I must write in response to 'Poor but Proud's' letter which recently featured in the BEN and which, again, attacked the rich, ill and disabled people of Bolton. This amounts to discrimination and an attack on genuine rich, ill and disabled people
THE inimitable Fred Shawcross reminds us ever so often that some national politicians, if not all, cannot possibly be from this planet. There is no need to stray that far as unworldliness is also quite common at local level. While we are still dreaming
I WAS recently requested to retire from the Fire Service on the grounds of ill-health, and am personally insulted by the scurrilous, cynical attack on the honesty of serving and retired firefighters and public sector workers. This attack is a thinly-disguised
Tonight's front page of the print version of the Bolton Evening News A BOLTON woman who stripped on TV and then insulted the females of the town (See Outrage At Town Slur on the Local News Index) has sparked a furious reaction. Tomorrow's print version
HBG Construction -- the firm responsible for Bury College's new campus -- has appointed Andrew Thomas as its new Regional Director for the North-west. Mr Thomas has been recruited from Balfour Beatty Construction, where he was technical services director
THE TUC is calling on the government to tackle the crisis in manufacturing. Recommendations range from urgent action to tackle the exchange-rate to long term reform of the Department of Trade and Industry. Nonsense Mr Alan Manning, the North-west Regional
A NEW man is at the helm as Bolton Council helps plan a prosperous future for the town. Mr Pat Rattigan, who has succeeded Steve Burns as Assistant Director in charge of the council's Economic and Physical Development Unit, arrived in April and is already
A GOVERNMENT minister has praised an imaginative jobs and regeneration scheme on the west side of Bolton. WIDE -- it stands for West Industrial Development and Enterprise -- is a joint private and public partnership which has the potential to create thousands
THE Tonge Moor community welcomed back an old friend at the recent launch of a street mosaic. Former councillor, Margaret McFadden, came all the way from Newcastle to spend the day with residents and youngsters involved in the Eldon Street Residents Association
WORSLEY MP Terry Lewis today told the Prime Minister to sack the adviser who wrote the bombshell memo about Labour's problems leaked to the press. As the Government reeled from the revelations in the document, the left-wing backbencher said Philip Gould
EMMERDALE'S troublesome teenager breezed into Bolton . . . but far from causing problems she gave a helping hand. Actress Vicki Binns, better known as Ollie in the ITV soap drama, opened the Bromley Cross summer fair at St John's Primary School, as a
THE girlfriend of Wanderers' sought after midfield star Claus Jensen could have a big say in which club he plays for next season. He had been expected to decide between Ipswich and Charlton this afternoon after both clubs had met Wanderers' £4m asking
BOLTON athlete Stuart Stokes jumped at the chance of a late call-up to help the Great Britain men's team to victory in the Europa Cup competition at Gateshead. The Withins School teacher was relaxing after racing in Croatia and another event at Trafford
Odense 6, Wanderers 1 WANDERERS have given a resounding thumbs down to the trailists who have flopped on the three-match tour of Denmark, which ended with another thumping defeat at Odense last night. Assistant manager Phil Brown delivered a stinging
PHIL Collier left everyone trailing in his wake when he shot a remarkable nett 56 to win the Horwich BEN Millennium Trophy qualifier. He was first out and posted the remarkable score of 80-24-56 which left the rest of the field shell-shocked. "I have
DURING the last war many appeals were made to help our Forces, and this picture is of one such event, a 'Salute the Soldier' parade through Bolton, in an appeal to raise £1.5 million. It has been sent to me by Mrs Enid Lovatt, of Turks Road, Radcliffe
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, July 18, 1975 STORMS hit the North-west last night for the second time this week, causing floods in many areas. Today 120 pupils had to be sent home for the third time in two weeks when a sewer flooded at St Paul's
BRITAIN'S justice system has been dubbed "a disgrace" by the parents of a teenager killed in Bolton town centre. Peter Odlum has blasted Prime Minister Tony Blair and Home Secretary Jack Straw for what he describes as their "empty words" on being tough
DESPITE all the waffle about how Bolton's crime figures are some of the best in Greater Manchester, the fact remains that ordinary members of the public despair about the amount of violence and the number of burglaries and car thefts around them. Statistics
A BUS driver denied seeing a girl running alongside his bus shortly before she was dragged under the rear wheels and crushed, a court was told. Despite the growing alarm of passengers on Edward Terry's bus, he told police he did not see or hear 19 year-old
OUTRAGED parents are appealing for the jail sentence passed on the hit-and-run driver who killed their son to be increased. Geoff and Margaret Willis, of Farnworth, have drawn up a petition and are prepared to take their campaign to the European Court
Key: P = Paid; WWB: = Warrant with bail; WNB: = Warrant no bail; WD: = Withdrawn; A: = Adjourned to another date; ASD: = Adjourned Sine Die (no date fixed). MORE than 200 people who have not paid or defaulted on paying council tax or community charge
