DETECTIVES have arrested a man following a series of knifepoint muggings in Deane and Daubhill. As reported exclusively in Saturday's BEN, police were trying to trace a mugger preying on elderly women. And vital new clues were provided from a BEN reader
A SPOT of birdnapping wasn't enough to ruffle the feathers of Eric the Crazy Cockatoo. He didn't flap when he was bundled off his perch at the Golden Days Garden Centre at Bradley Fold and into a bag by a thief. And even during the ensuing chase when
A BOLTON lecturer has forced the literary world to reconsider its views with his new theories about the Famous Five. David Rudd, a 46-year-old senior lecturer at Bolton Institute, is near to completing his PhD thesis on the works of popular children's
A YOUNG girl who yearns to be an opera singer is a step nearer realising her ambition - thanks to the BEN. In December we made an appeal for sponsorship on behalf of 13-year-old Amy Nuttall after she landed the leading role in the National Youth Music
LABOUR MPs David Young and Terry Lewis and Bolton's education chairman Don Eastwood united today in demanding the resignation of Labour Health spokesman Harriet Harman from the Shadow Cabinet. All three believe there is no way she can remain a party figurehead
SIR: I read with increasing horror, about the crisis in the Health Service, involving shortage of beds and transfer of critically ill patients many miles around the country, and I find myself reminiscing about the "old days". In 1957/58 I began nurse
"HAB you god a coad?" I have. So has everyone else - very nearly, writes and "Evening News" reporter. If you're not careful it will turn into influenza, which is widespread in Bolton just now. So the best thing to do is to go into the coal shed and scrape
LEIGH RMI have parted company with Barry Diamond, just days after signing Stalybridge and ex Stockport County striker Paul Wheeler. The shock move follows the Railwaymen's 4-1 defeat by Netherfield at Hilton Park on Saturday, their first League defeat
By NEIL BONNAR BURY'S Lenny Johnrose is resigned to missing his biggest game of the season. The all action midfielder serves a one-match ban when the Shakers make the short trip to high-riding Preston on Saturday. Johnrose has reason to hope that his
ADDITIONAL board members are needed for the Octagon Theatre Trust in Bolton. It needs experience and expertise in either strategic planning, fundraising, access, youth and community, finance and accounting, catering, building management or customer care
A HIGH-powered delegation from the former East Germany visited Bolton at the week-end. The trip was tied in with the decision of the European Commission to designate 1996 as the European Year of Life-Long Learning. One of the objectives is the promotion
SIR: I read with interest Tom Sackville's views regarding Dr Tait's remarks about the need for teachers to teach schoolchildren the difference between right and wrong (BEN January 18). Mr Sackville states that this was "music to his ears" and further
GERRY Taggart's hopes of a cup comeback have been scuppered by a training accident. The Wanderers central defender, missing for two games through suspension, has damaged his ankle and has had to scrap plans for a reserve team fitness trial tomorrow. Fellow
A POLICE chief today praised knife-owners who made Bolton's weapons amnesty haul the second biggest in Greater Manchester. Supt Ian McLoughlin said he was encouraged by figures which show 159 knives were surrendered at Bolton police stations during the
By BEN Reporter A TOY umbrella bought for a seven-year-old Bolton girl could have injured any child who was trying to open it, the town's magistrates were told. Hayley Bowes suffered facial injuries when the toy umbrella opened as she was playing with
NEWS that nearly 1,400 potentially lethal "knives" have been surrendered to Greater Manchester Police during the nationwide knives amnesty is heartening. Almost 160 weapons - the second highest haul in the county - were deposited in Bolton's K Division
