BURY chartered accountants Downham Train Epstein have been awarded the prestigious title of "Investor in People". This is a national quality standard awarded to companies who provide training resources to their staff enabling them to do their work to
BOLTON and Bury TEC is to receive a share of a £20m cash bonus awarded by the government to high performing training and enterprise councils. The local TEC will get an extra £301,598 to spend next year after scoring a maximum seven performance points
COUNCIL chiefs look set to say a firm "non" to a cheeky French bid to run Bolton's council houses. It was announced at last night's Bolton Council meeting that it is looking like the council's in-house bid will be successful. The BEN had revealed that
MISSING schoolgirl Heather Patterson returned home safely yesterday after an appeal in the BEN. As reported in last night's paper, 13 year old Heather's anxious parents pleaded for her to get in touch after she went missing on Friday night. Delighted
BOLTON Council has made a dramatic U-turn on its plans to loan out the town's industrial heritage following a huge public outcry led by the BEN and its readers. Councillors unanimously agreed last night that the controversial move to loan historic textile
A BOLTON mother-of-six was celebrating today following a decision by a High Court judge to quash a 24-day jail sentence for non-payment of the poll tax. Joan Partington, 44, of De Lacy Drive, Bolton, had already spent three days in custody after the sentence
FOUR councillors from Bolton ruling Labour group last night dramatically declared that they don't want the Red Moss supertip. The "rebel" four are Blackrod councillors, Eric Johnson, Kevan Helsby and John Monaghan and Horwich Cllr Mrs Betty McCracken.
Ellis back at Bury SAM Ellis today returned to Bury as number two to manager Stan Ternent. Former Shakers boss Ellis, who left Gigg Lane five years ago when the club was plunged into a cash crisis, is the shock choice as assistant to Ternent. In an eventful
THE JUDGE who ruled that a ban on Moonies leader the Rev Sun Myung Moon was unlawful has been bitterly attacked by a group of Bolton families and their MP. Yesterday Mr Justice Sedley said Home Secretary Michael Howard's decision to bar The Rev Moon from
SIR: So the former councillor Brian Tetlow wishes to have Moor Lane bus station closed-in (BEN Oct 24), so to speak, so that a car park can be built above it. Does he wish to see another covered-in bus station such as the Arndales in Manchester and Birmingham
SIR: It has been wonderful to see churches united in opposition to the Lottery. I therefore urge: The enforcement of the 1968 gambling Act which providedthat there should be no stimulation of gambling beyond the existing demand, but which has been ignored
PUBLIC opinion, led by the Bolton Evening News has persuaded councillors to think again about ways of keeping Bolton's historic textile machinery in town. Thhe BEN, history societies and the public have opposed plans to loan machines - including Crompton's
Bolton battle to have stars available for crunch games TUG-OF-WAR WANDERERS have scored a major victory in one club v country tug-of-war and are bracing themselves for another. Iceland have agreed to let key defender Gudni Bergsson report for international
