CHORLEY have a wonderful opportunity to kick-start their promotion campaign by notching some valuable home points as they embark on their third season in the UniBond First Division. Ken Wright's boys open the season with a match against North Ferriby
ANOTHER national report has confirmed that young people from working class communities are less likely to apply to university because the fear of spiralling student debt. Should anyone be surprised? The saddest thing is that New Labour in England continues
I AM writing in response to Cllr Margaret E Clare's comments in the Evening News on August 18 headlined: A cathedral would be fine, but not a mosque? I disagree with her analysis of the situation that people would be OK accepting a cathedral on their
A ROMANIAN orphan adopted by a local couple ran around Bolton Wanderers' Reebok pitch to raise money for street children in her home country. Whites fan Madalina Richardson, aged nine, did the sponsored run around the pitch with friends Rachel Bannister
A PEDIGREE pooch who went missing from his new home two weeks ago shocked everyone when he was found wandering along the M61 near Chorley. Tyson, a Sharpei worth £800, vanished from his home in Chorley New Road, Horwich, only two days after moving there
BOLTON'S drug users are being offered "free" samples of heroin by dealers determined to entice them into addiction. Drug pushers are supplying first-time users with bags of the Class A drug -- worth between £5 and £10 -- in the hope of securing a regular
The first of several improvements were being introduced at Farnworth public baths to provide better facilities for bathers in February, 1955, when these pictures were taken. They included the installation of an electric penny-in-the-slot automatic hair-drying
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, June 22, 1976 A LECTURER at Bolton Technical College has become a member of the most exclusive mountaineering clubs in Great Britain. Mr Leo Pollard, aged 41, of Medway Park, Stocks Way, Horwich, became the 44th member
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, June 9, 1976 SOCCER will cost more at Burnden Park next season. However, it will still be cheaper watching there than at many other grounds. And the Bolton board have managed to keep the minimum price down to 70p -
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, June 4, 1976 A FARNWORTH pub has changed its name - so that people can find it. The King's Head on Plodder Lane has been called "The Canary" for many years by locals and any stranger asking for the King's Head would
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, June 15, 1976 BOLTON'S Martin Robinson has drawn one of the toughest tasks in the men's singles at the Wimbledon championships which start next week. He is drawn against the seventh-seeded Roscoe Tanner, the American
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, June 8, 1976 ICE-cream and soft drink manufacturers in the Bolton area are working overtime to cope with the demand of the heatwave. Public houses, too, are being kept busy thirst-quenching drinks like lager and shandies
A NUMBER of angry Bolton Wanderers fans gripped by Premiership fever have still not received their season tickets three months after buying them. The club has received several complaints from fans desperate to get their tickets before the first home game
MIDDLESBROUGH defender Gareth Southgate has warned Sam Allardyce to prepare for a backlash as the Teessiders attempt to exorcise their opening day demons. While Wanderers were launching their Premiership campaign with a stunning 5-0 victory at Leicester
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, June 2, 1976 THE POUND suffered one of its swiftest and sharpest falls yet on foreign exchange markets, dropping 3,55 cents through the psychologically important 1.75 dollar barrier. "No-one wants to hold pounds," said
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, June 10, 1976 MINERS are now the richest and most numerous British holidaymakers abroad this year. Mr Wilf Jones, managing director of the holiday firm Cosmos, said today: "There is one section of the British people
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, June 12, 1976 THE inclusion of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise in the Birthday Honours represents "a mockery of our system of society", a Lancashire MP said today. Now Mr Doug Hoyle (Labour, Nelson and Colne) - one of
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, July 12, 1976 THE European Economic Commission is fast becoming a hothouse which produces a rampant growth of economic unreality. The latest senseless idea is to impose a tax on vegetable and mineral oils, which would
From the Evening News, July 23, 1976 25 YEARS AGO SHOCKED councillors who thought a heavy compensation claim against Bolton Council had been dropped, have been told the case is going ahead. It could cost the town more than £100,000. The authority is being
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, July 12, 1976 TO 16-years-old Bolton youths were rescued by inshore lifeboat at the weekend when they were trapped by the tide on the Ribble estuary sands near Lytham. The youths, Peter Leigh, and Stephen Todd, both
From the Evening News, July 15, 1976 25 YEARS AGO TOUGH new laws and powers for the police to inspect financial documents are among measures aimed at combating corruption in public life urged today by a Royal Commission. The Commission was set up 18 months
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, July 8, 1976 SIZZLING Riviera-type sunshine has brought few complaints from Bolton people in the past week or two. But down at the fairground, showmen are blaming the heat for one of their quietest wakes weeks in the
HAVING already been motivated by the pundits tipping them to finish bottom of the Premiership pile, Wanderers have been further spurred by the lack of recognition, nationally, they received for their sensational opening day triumph. "I don't think anybody
SAM Allardyce believes the return to form and fitness of Paul Warhurst could be a crucial factor in how the season pans out. "Paul didn't get as much of the limelight as Kevin Nolan and Per Frandsen at Leicester as he didn't score," he said. "But his
A ROMANIAN orphan adopted by a local couple ran around Bolton Wanderers' Reebok pitch to raise money for street children in her home country. Whites fan Madalina Richardson, aged nine, did the sponsored run around the pitch with friends Rachel Bannister
THE multi-million pound Xanadu leisure and snowdome complex planned for Leigh has today been turned down. Controversial Xanadu -- which many felt would provide a vital boost to jobs and the local economy -- and a new railway station planned at Kenyon
August 19 Man United 3, Fulham 2 August 20 Everton 1, Spurs 1 August 23 Arsenal v Leeds Utd August 26 Newcastle Utd v Sunderland August 27 WANDERERS v Liverpool Sept 9 Charlton Athletic v Fulham Sept 16 Ipswich v Blackburn Sept 17 Leicester v Middlesbrough
A BURY man accused of robbing an 88-year-old pensioner has been remanded in custody to appear before the Crown Court. Roy Fielding, aged 32, of Topping Fold Road, is charged with robbing the pensioner of her handbag and contents, to the value of £40.
A WOMAN delivering copies of the BEN was shot at by an air rifle sniper as she was driving her car. Barbara Taylor, of Carlton Street, was in Kildare Street, New Bury, at 4.20pm yesterday with her windows open when she felt a sudden pain in her right
A WOMAN escaped from her blazing house after a cigarette started a fire in her living room. The semi-detached house on Carlton Road, Heaton, was severely damaged by the blaze which broke out at 3.20am today. Valerie Doyle, aged 58, was in bed directly
WATCHING TV can be good for you, according to new research by the British Heart Foundation. A study of 2,000 people who had watched the "Fighting Fit, Fighting Fat" campaign screened by the BBC two years ago showed that fruit consumption had doubled,
POSITION: Head Groundsman WHAT DOES YOUR JOB ENTAIL? Overseeing the maintenance of all the playing surfaces used by the club, i.e. at the Reebok Stadium and the ones at our training ground in Euxton. PREVIOUS CLUB/JOBS? After leaving school I joined the
25 YEARS AGO rom the Evening News, uly 14, 1976 RESIDENTS of Church Road, Prestwich, are "furious" over the felling of more than 20 trees on a demolition site next to their parish church. A speedy preservation order to save the 100-years-old trees on
From the Evening News, July 28, 1976 25 YEARS AGO EDGWORTH cricketer Steve Simpson yesterday added his own crazy claim to fame. Steve, aged 29, of High Street, Chapeltown, finished his marathon loo-sitting vigil after clocking up more than 60 hours, "
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, July 3, 1976 THE north's Arabian-style weather continues to make hot news with record after record being smashed. Bolton holiday's sunshine quota has been 15 hours a day. At the Lancashire coast resorts yesterday, sun
From the Evening News, July 21, 1976 25 YEARS AGO BRITAIN'S new ambassador in the Irish Republic, Mr Christopher Ewart-Biggs, 55, was killed today when his car was blown up near his home in suburban Dublin. A woman civil servant passenger was also killed
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, July 7, 1976 FOUR men who stole £2,400 from a petrol filling station buried the money under floorboards of a new house being prepared for the petrol station's owner. But after discovering that their victim, the owner
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, July 9, 1976 A MASSIVE air, land and sea search for four Farnworth people was called off today when they returned safely to port after going missing in Morecambe Bay. They had been forced to spend the night off the
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, July 6, 1976 THE Lancashire Riviera continues to top the British sunshine league. For the sixth day running, Blackpool baked yesterday in higher temperatures than Majorca. It's been the hottest coastal resort in Britain
From the Evening News, July 22, 1976 25 YEARS AGO THE reclaimed lodges at Moses Gate came in for praise when experts from the Countryside Commission paid a three-day visit to local conservation schemes. Only a few years ago the rolling green hills behind
From the Evening News, July 12, 1976 25 YEARS AGO TO 16-years-old Bolton youths were rescued by inshore lifeboat at the weekend when they were trapped by the tide on the Ribble estuary sands near Lytham. The youths, Peter Leigh, and Stephen Todd, both
SUPERIOR Pet beat Carl Chapman 11 A 264-137 in the Dixon Shield Final sponsored by Division One Furniture. Superior Pet batted first and scored 114 runs with Lee Rhodes 18 runs, Debbie Hoyle 15 runs, Michelle Byrom, Dawn Chadwick, Carol Hill, and Karen
THE Section A champions could be decided tonight if Darcy Lever CC A beat Rupert Ladies. In Section D Darcy Lever CC C now appear strong favourites to win the section. The Volunteer have become champions of G Section when they beat Apollo Motors. Edge
LANCASHIRE claimed their first win in eight matches in all competitions last night with a low-key National League victory over Sussex under the Old Trafford floodlights. It saw them climb above the Sharks into fifth in the Second Division table, and although
TIM Wallwork played a captain's innings to steer Eagley to a thrilling win in the Bolton League's Hamer Cup final. In a low scoring match, Eagley bowled out Westhoughton for a meagre 85 and at 27-2 in reply Eagley appeared to be in control, but then four
Harris lights up the gloom WALSHAW and Elton being local rivals, when they meet one senses the intensity created which belies their relative positions in the league table. Elton is a team packed with youngsters, Walshaw on the other hand is a mature outfit
PAUL Warhurst was the unsung hero of Wanderers' thrilling win at Leicester. Here he tangles with Leicester's new signing Dennis Wise
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WHEN James Harry Green set up his Westhoughton furniture shop in 1911 he would never have believed it would still be trading 90 years later. The carpenter would have been even more amazed if you told him the business he set-up before the First World War
BOLTON'S new athletics track has been hailed a success by coaches of some of the region's top athletes. The synthetic track at Bolton Arena was only officially unveiled a few weeks ago but it is quickly gaining a reputation as a first class facility.
WHAT'S in a name? Well, a car on loan and a parcel of goodies for the girl who shares her name with the new Suzuki. Liana Lonsdale, aged 10, of Middlebrook Drive, Lostock, could never find badges or souvenirs printed with her name and always came out
NEW Bury residents are coming up with an "aMAZEing" scheme to turn a derelict tip into a fun-filled eco-friendly adventure site. The Gateway Project, which brings together local people with experts from community group Bolton Wise and innovative artists
THE BEN's front page report and pictures describing the historic moment Wanderers reached the top of the Premiership after beating Leicester City 5-0 proved a big hit with readers.
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BURY'S Worthington Cup tie against Sheffield Wednesday tonight has been overshadowed by the death of a player. Wednesday reserve Tom Staniforth collapsed and died on Sunday. As a result Peter Shreeves' team did not train yesterday. They will wear black
MANOR Fives teams paid their respects in the John Hodson Memorial Tournament. A total of 16 teams took part in the first annual memorial tournament. John's team-mates and friends played under the names of Inter Clubbing, Dogs Ballearics and Real Ducie
BOLTON Under 15s have been given a bye in the first round of the English Schools' FA Wizard inter association Trophy. Bolton usually fare well in the Greater Manchester competitions but they have not got a good record in the prestigious national inter
I COMPLETELY agree with "An Irate Resident" (August 16, Mosque plan disbelief). I, too, feel strongly that councillors making this decision do not live in Astley Bridge. Perhaps, if they had a mosque on their doorstep, their feelings would be different
OFFERING free samples is an accepted retail ploy to interest potential customers. But, in a disgusting twist on this system, drug dealers in the Bolton area are offering "free samples" of heroin to entice first-time users to become enmeshed in the habit
IT wasn't only cars and tipping gear which absorbed the talents of Maurice Edwards and his brothers. In 1908 they began making flying machines, and made engines for A.V. Roe. The engines were tried out first in a big room at the back of a Bradshawgate
This photograph of workers from De Havilland at Lostock (probably later better remembered as British Aerospace) at Moor Lane bus station where they had gathered to go on a trip to Llandudno has been sent to me by Mr Tom Hall. He tells me that it was taken
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, June 11, 1976 MORE than half the shops at a £350,000 showpiece precinct are still empty after four years. Now the tenants who have moved in are angry at what they call a "disgraceful situation" at the Brownlow shopping
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, June 5, 1976 BOLTON'S flying dentists, Mr Jack Powell and his son John, had double cause for celebration at the weekend. They both won prizes in the Blackpool Centenary International Air Rally, which attracted entries
25 YEARS AGOo From the Evening News, June 16, 1976 PLANS to transfer production work and white-collar jobs from the Horwich factory of Rivington Carpets to the Wigan plant will go on. Up to 200 jobs are threatened at Horwich as a result of the firm's
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, June 30, 1976 MOTORISTS may find themselves having to pay out more for petrol later this summer. The Price Commission is considering applications which would put up the cost of petrol by 2p a gallon, taking to-grade
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, June 19, 1976 SEXUAL equality has gone full circle at Smithills High School in Bolton. Boys in the fifth form have been taking mothercraft and home economics courses and are now running a playgroup at the school for
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, June 22, 1976 A LOCAL vicar has attacked the "diabolical meanness" of people who answered an appeal to feed the starving millions by donating one p coin. The Rev. Ernest Osman, Vicar of St Peter's Church, Farnworth,
JUSSI Jaaskelainen has no intention of being a punchbag for the Premiership's big-hitters. The Reebok keeper has battled back in double-quick time from a career-threatening injury and is determined to be in the starting line-up at Leicester. He is equally
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, June 14, 1976 TWO soccer clubs have been banned from the Bolton Sports Federation following flare-ups at the annual presentation which ended up "just like a battlefield". Police and ambulancemen were called to an incident
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, June 3, 1976 IT had to be. Coronation Street, queen of soap operas has at last crowned the printed page. "Early Days", a paperback book stamped with the unforgettable picture of hair-netted Ena Sharples and her cronies
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, June 7, 1976 HERE comes the Evening News at the gallop . . . For residents in far-flung corners of Horwich are getting their newspapers delivered by pony express, When 13-years-old riding enthusiast Jane Gibson, of
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, June 17, 1976 BOLTON man Mr Don Stewart has joined the elite band of swimmers to complete the hazardous Morecambe Bay swim - despite an attempt to rescue him! Don, a 36-years-old bachelor of St Paul's Place, Halliwell
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, June 1, 1976 MORE than 250 people were waiting outside Bolton Town Hall today, on the day council mortgages are handed out. The queue of would-be home owners was headed by a 65-years-old man who had been waiting art
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, June 18, 1976 BRITAIN'S inflation rate has taken the biggest dive ever recorded. It plunged to 15.4 per cent in May, and that means the cost of living is at its lowest for over two years. The massive drop of 3 per cent
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, June 21, 1976 EDGWORTH parents have formed an action committee to fight for places for their children at Turton High School. It was decided to fight at last night's meeting at the village's C of E Methodist school of
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, July 5, 1976 A 220-MILE mercy flight whisked a seriously injured Bolton man from Cornwall to Southport after a swimming pool accident at the weekend. Stephen Lane, aged 25, of Beverley Road, Bolton, badly injured his
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, July 1, 1976 LITTER louts have transformed Bolton town centre in to a landscape of waste paper, drink cans and broken bottles. It's charm has been destroyed by rubbish left daily by scores of thoughtless sun-seekers
From the Evening News, July 31, 1976 25 YEARS AGO RUSSIA'S threat to pull out of the last two days of the Olympic Games held fast this afternoon. They were still demanding that the 17-years-old diver who had asked for political asylum in Canada is returned
From the Evening News, July 31, 1976 25 YEARS AGO PLANS to build almost 8,000 houses in five separate estates in the Middle Hulton area have been turned down by Bolton's Planning Committee. In total the schemes covered 662 acres, much of it farmland,
From the Evening News, July 29, 1976 25 YEARS AGO IF there was the slightest doubt in anybody's mind about the validity or worth of town twinning links, a four-day stay in Bolton's West German twin town Paderborn, put a conclusive end to them. The unanimous
FIREFIGHTERS battled to save a farm in Smithills at 5am today after arsonists set fire to bales of hay. More than 30 tonnes of hay were destroyed in the blaze which also threatened to spread to nearby Harricroft Farm, on Smithills Dean Road. No-one was
FIREFIGHTERS were called to a car blaze at a rugby pitch yesterday. A stolen Rover was dumped and set alight in Avenue Street, near Bolton town centre, at 11.30am.
A BUSINESS has been given £25,000 to install a closed circuit TV system. Saville Tractors Ltd, Kearsley, was awarded the cash by councillors through the industrial estate management project.
A RADCLIFFE man who threw a brick through the window of a Rochdale shop and stole a PlayStation and compact discs worth £400 appeared before Rochdale magistrates. Kirk Lee Stott, aged 20, of Radcliffe House, Church Street, admitted burgling Our Price
A MAN arrested for interfering with a car parked in Middleton admitted he had earlier been driving without a licence or insurance. Adrian Fleming Patel had recently been released from a four-year prison sentence when he was arrested. Patel, aged 24, of
BOTH Sam Allardyce and his chairman, Phil Gartside, have expressed their disappointment that only 15,500 season tickets have been sold - around 3,000 down on when they were last in the Premiership in 1997-98 - but are hoping the magnificent start will
THE managing director of a construction company whose Jaguar was in collision with an Audi on a motorway link road was fined £900 by magistrates. Michael Hogg, aged 43, admitted driving without due care and attention and failing to stop to report an accident
BOLTON West MP Ruth Kelly has welcomed backing from Home Office officials for Bolton Council's trial scheme to install closed circuit television cameras in taxis. The scheme, funded by the local crime and disorder reduction partnership, will see cabs
A WOMAN delivering copies of the BEN was shot at by an air rifle sniper as she was driving her car. Barbara Taylor, of Carlton Street, was in Kildare Street, New Bury, at 4.20pm yesterday with her windows open when she felt a sudden pain in her right
INCREASED customer confidence is expected to follow the awarding of the first quality mark for the pensions, life insurance and personal investment industry. "Raising Standards", the new quality mark awarded by the Pensions Protection Investments Accreditation
POSITION: Retail Operations Manager WHAT DOES YOUR JOB ENTAIL?: Ensuring the smooth operation of the club shop- I am also responsible for the purchase and marketing of all merchandise with the official Bolton Wanderers brand. I also over see the running
POSITION: Corporate Sales Manager WHAT DOES YOUR JOB ENTAIL? The sale and marketing of all match day hospitality, sponsorship and advertising at the Reebok Stadium. PREVIOUS CLUBS/JOB: I have worked in many different industries but mainly sport. I worked
POSITION: Visitor and Tour Centre Manager WHAT DOES YOU JOB ENTAIL?: Showing visitors around the Reebok Stadium and also providing information and answering questions about the ground and Bolton Wanderers Football Club. PREVIOUS CLUBS/JOB: I worked in
From the Evening News, July 16, 1976 25 YEARS AGO THE Olympic Games were dealt another crippling blow today with the formal threat by 16 African nationals to withdraw unless New Zealand is barred. They accused New Zealand of "bare faced support of acts
GUDNI Bergsson believes Wanderers have the system and the firepower to repeat the goal spree that stunned Leicester and the rest of the Premiership on Saturday. The Reebok captain has urged his team-mates not to get carried away by the 5-0 triumph - the
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, July 10, 1976 Holidaymakers planning to cruise on Britain's canals this summer face new restrictions as the drought continues. The British Waterways Board says that a number of locks on canals not fed by rivers, will
From the Evening News, July 26, 1976 25 YEARS AGO BLOOMING Bolton is the North-west's "floral city" - and that's official. The borough has won the regional city category of the Britain in Bloom competition, and will now now continue its battle of flowers
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, July 3, 1976 THE face of Bolton could be transformed if proposals contained in the area's new Borough Plan are carried out over the next 15 years. Bolton is the only one of Greater Manchester's 10 districts to have
Section A -- Tonight: Bolton & District Ladies v J & P Ladies (R Moffat), Rupert Ladies v Darcy Lever C&SC A (D Foulkes); Wed: Darcy Lever C&SC B v Little Lever XI (G Palmer). Section B -- Tonight: Daisy Hill CC A v BRUFC (G Heaton), Nationwide
WITHOUT having to contest their final match of the season at Walshaw because of unfit ground conditions, Elton emerged as deserved 2001 league champions. Golborne were forced to concede their match at Astley & Tyldesley due to player shortages - the
OLTON ASSOCIATION 2ND XI THE weather became a significant factor in the championship with good news for Elton and Adlington, gloom for Little Hulton and Atherton, and a reprieve for Clifton. Darcy Lever, without a fixture were unable to offer their ground
NEIL BONNAR'S round-up of Sunday's Redmayne Bentley Bolton Association ATHERTON refuse to give up the fight for the Association title. They closed the gap by six points to leave champions Walshaw 24 clear at the top after a weekend ravaged by the weather
THE Astley Bridge scorer had it right. In the space marked "weather conditions" in her scorebook, she had simply written the word "cruddy"! Not entirely sure what it meant. I looked it up in my dictionary when I got home and found "cruddy": Adj. dirty
WITH this being the final week of the season for sections B, C and D, there was a flurry of activity. The teams at the top who already knew they were promoted wanted to finish on a high, and the teams facing the drop needed to salvage their pride. Barnstormers
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A PROUD grandmother plans to give her granddaughter a special gift after an excited phone call to say she had achieved the grades she needed to enter the London School of Economics. Freda Catterson, of Laburnum Road, Chorley, still has a medal which used
WHAT'S in a name? Well, a car on loan and a parcel of goodies for the girl who shares her name with the new Suzuki. Liana Lonsdale, aged 10, of Middlebrook Drive, Lostock, could never find badges or souvenirs printed with her name and always came out
ARMED robbers escaped with up to £12,000 from a Bury post office. Two masked men are being hunted by police after the raid at 4.20pm at Limefield Post Office, Walmersley Road. One of the men smashed the security screen with a baseball bat. The 51-year-old
THERE are fears there will be chaos if the opening of a new school in Westhoughton is delayed. Work is expected to start on The Gates primary in November, but the town's council leader, David Wilkinson, is worried set-backs will cause major problems.
A TROUBLED estate in Great Lever will receive more than £200,000 to kick vandals, hooligans and thieves out of the area. As revealed in the BEN last month, Paulhan Street and Dunbar Drive have been awarded the money to install CCTV cameras. Chorley Old
THE fire chief who led a team of firefighters into Strangeways Prison at the height of the 1990 riot has announced his retirement. George Almond, the Greater Manchester County Fire Officer, will leave the brigade on March 1. It ends a 40 year career in
A MOTHER has thanked four girls she believes saved her son's life when he was attacked by two thugs. Manjula Patel is convinced Dillon, aged 16, would have been punched and kicked to death if the girls had not come to his rescue. He was assaulted by the
FARMER Arnold Davenport has spoken of his heartbreak after being told to quit the home he has lived in all his life -- Harwood's last remaining working farm. After 43 years, tenant farmer Mr Davenport will have to leave the Nab Gate Farm in Stitch-mi-Lane
THOSE of us lucky enough to witness this opening day annihilation of Leicester City are still pinching themselves in disbelief. No report can do complete justice to this amazing team performance. Not one player shirked his duties. We all arrived expecting
PER Frandsen, who never missed a game last time Wanderers were in the Premiership, has carried on where he left off in May 98. The great Dane looked a shadow of his former self last season when he returned from his "exile" at Blackburn but at Filbert
DAISY Hill had a disappointing start to their league campaign with 1-0 home defeat at the hands of league new boys Norton United. Manager Alan Aspinall was philosophical after the game. "We lost a bad goal early on, but in the second half we created a
LEIGH RMI are expected to name an unchanged team for tonight's tough trip to Doncaster Rovers. Manager Steve Waywell reported no new injury problems following Saturday's opening day home draw with Hayes but key midfielder Dave Ridings is still troubled
