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ARSONISTS are believed to have started a fire at a church in Horwich last night. The main doors at St Catherine's Church, Queen Street, Horwich are thought to have been set alight and smouldered throughout the night before the blaze took hold this morning

FIREMEN from Bolton's four stations are joining colleagues from across the region in a 400-mile sponsored cycle ride from Manchester, England, to Manchester, France. The kind-hearted firefighters are undertaking the marathon cycle ride in aid of Greater

DAWN patrols are on the scent of dog owners who let their pets foul Bury's pavements and verges. The council's anti-dog fouling team have stepped up early morning and late evening patrols to crack down on owners who don't scoop after their dogs poop.

TRAVELLERS are being urged to check their passports well in advance of their summer holidays. Although one-year passports are no longer available, 10-year passport applications can be accepted at more than 160 post offices in the North West. Post Office

LOCAL fire service training officer Peter Gardner plans to walk the West Highland Way from Glasgow to Fort William in aid of a local housing association. Money raised will help Irwell Valley Housing Association's supported housing scheme, in particular

SIR: I wish to complain about our non-existent bus service, namely the 571 and 572, with people waiting regularly for three quarters of an hour and upwards. On Monday April 30, at somewhere between 2.45pm and 3.45pm there was no bus. After complaints,

IT'S the end of another highly exciting season on the local soccer front and I thought it might be a good time to list the Roll of Honour for all our local amateur competitions. BOLTON SPORTS FEDERATION VETERANS LEAGUE Another cracking season for the

WINTER is now behind us, despite the chilly weather that's bedevilled our springtime. But how many of us will be looking forward to another long, hot summer? Certainly not most of Britain's water companies, whose reservoirs have not been helped by the

25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, May 18, 1971 BOLTON Corporation must pay the local development company of Metrolands Investments Ltd. £552,500 for the controversial Bark Street redevelopment area, announced the Lands Tribunal in London. Metrolands

SOMETIME in the non-too-distant future, the Fort Sterling Bolton League is planning to hold what may well be the first of a short series of conferences to which all clubs will be invited to send representatives. A suggested agenda consisting of the 10

A BOLTON taxi driver was forced into the boot of his car and taken on a terrifying drive through the streets of the town after being robbed at knifepoint. Police are looking for three men who ripped the radio out of the taxi and held a knife at the driver's

THE centenary will be celebrated later this year of an event which opened up some of Bolton's most beautiful moorland to the public. It will be 100 years on September 6 since the mass trespass on Smithills Moor. Now council leisure chiefs are preparing

A FORMER Bolton Wanderers goalkeeper and the club's chief coach both failed breathalyser tests on the same night, a court was told. And one of them, former coach Ian Porterfield, could face a jail sentence because of the high breath test reading and because

SIR: I refer to Andrew K Berry's letter about soccer played in streets. This has become a "common complaint', so common in fact, that it has now become almost insignificant. Just another "old folk's complaint" . It would appear, this is the attitude adopted

SIR: In recent times doctors who visit patients have been under the threat of more and more violence. Although this cannot be condoned it is becoming understandable as to why this happens. Doctors' visiting has been politicised on economic grounds. This

SIR: We have seen, for some considerable time now, a failure and lack of responsibility on the part of the judicial system to use the full power of the laws available during cases of criminal violence. It would appear that lawyers and juries alike give

SIR: Thank you for your coverage of the frightening incident with an intruder we had on Saturday evening last, in your edition of May 13 - and for the kind and thoughtful remarks in your editorial comment: Catalogue of crime". Might I be allowed to make

Another bug's been going round In me a home I think it's found Head is aching, feeling sick Throat feels like there's pins in it Coughing, sneezing, feel so ill Got to take another pill Eyes and nose they are bright red Constantly a drip they have Lemon