TWO vital Bolton schemes are set for the go ahead to improve the lives of people with difficulties seeing and hearing. They have come from a joint finance initiative between Bolton Social Services and Wigan and Bolton Health Auth- ority. The attention
SIR: I refer to the fund-raising events for Father Kirwin's 40 years in the priesthood. Sincere thanks to the parishioners of St Patrick's, Bolton Irish Community Association, Bolton Ukrainian Club, and so many individuals too numerous to mention for
THE leader of Salford Council is demanding a complete review of procedures at Barton Aerodrome following Bank Holiday Monday's fatal air crash. Councillor Bill Hinds is calling for a full rundown of the details of the crash in which two Turkish journalists
A FURIOUS man is threatening to sue a relative for allegedly breaking her word and failing to share a bingo jackpot with him. Ken Jones of Yewdale Gardens, Breightmet, claims that Margaret Brookes has gone back on a promise and failed to share the £5,333
SIR: I have just read the article about the dumping of a child in care and I commend Mr Alan Yates of Hooton Street, Bolton, for bringing it to the attention of Lancashire's Youth Services. Well done, sir! Bullying is dreadful for anyone, but especially
SIR: Following recent TV programmes, eg Animal Detectives, more people are becoming aware of the terrible suffering inflicted on bears in China. These poor animals are imprisoned in tiny cages and milked everyday for their bile which, the Chinese believe
SIR: It is becoming increasingly obvious that the council is completely wrong-headed in its approach to car parking in Bolton town centre. I recently spent an enjoyable Sunday afternoon in Manchester, where on-street parking was free and the place consequently
SIR: Last Saturday night, more than 150 local amateur musicians joined together to form the Bolton Festival Orchestra and Choir and delighted their audience with performances of Bruckner and Schutz. Chorus master John Powell positioned both choirs and
TEMPEST United drew 3-3 at home last night with last season's SGL Seat Cars West Lancs League Division One runners-up Burnley United. "It was suicide stuff yet again," says club chairman Alan Westhead. "We played really well and twice were in front by
LITTLE Hulton United's hopes of retaining their Manchester League Premier Division title have received another jolt with a 4-2 home defeat by Wythenshawe Amateurs. "I am beginning to realise how Kevin Keegan feels," says manager Steve Vychinski. "I have
By Chris Sudlow IN the last century, the average Navvy had to eat two pounds of beef and drink at least a gallon of beer a day to survive. For these were the workaholics who carved through the earth to create the navigation canals which transformed Industrial
A MAN who found an owl outside his Farnworth home is appealing for the owner to come forward. Paul Entwistle, 46, of Coniston Avenue, tried to nurse the bird back to health but it died soon after he took it inside. He said: "A boy knocked on our door
AMY Dumville, aged 11, has been told she is not eligible for a free travel pass because she lives only 2.6 miles from her school via "the quickest walking route". A walk of three miles - quite a long distance it seems to us - is the minimum journey for
ACROBAT Business Communications has appointed 32-year-old Pippa Walker from Worsley as project manager. The company is the management development arm of Manchester-based Acrobat Television and Pippa will be in charge of the company's latest executive
SMALL businesses in the North West are warned that time is running our for them to stand a chance of winning over £5,000 worth of prizes in the regional Parcelforce Small Business Award competition. A spokesman for Parcelforce in the North West said:
A PREGNANT teenager was carried to safety by firefighters after a firebug set her home ablaze by pushing pieces of burning paper through her letterbox. Anna Cummings, aged 17, was trapped in a bedroom last night as smoke spread through her home in Barton
A STORY linking Bolton-born EastEnders heart-throb Paul Nicholls with his glamorous and older co-star Martine McCutcheon has been rubbished by his mum. Paul's name was brought up in a newspaper interview with Gareth Cooke, the jilted fiancee of Martine
PRESSURE was today mounting on Bolton's social services chiefs who are poised to close two old people's homes. Organisers of two petitions have collected more than 4,500 signatures objecting to the move. Members of the trade union UNISON are also planning
THE £1 million facelift plan for Bolton's Victoria Square will be unveiled this week. A special exhibition is being held tomorrow, Friday and Saturday to give the public an idea what the famous town hall square could look like in the next century. The
A HUGE fire demolished a carpet warehouse and caused traffic chaos to Bolton town centre during the rush hour last night. Flames shooting through the roof of Derek's Carpets on Blackhorse Street could be spotted for miles around. Buildings close by had
AN 11-year-old girl has been told she can walk to school along a grass verge by education bosses who have refused her a bus pass. Amy Dumville, who starts St Joseph's RC School, in Horwich, today, was told she was not eligible for the free pass because
THE RSPCA has responded to a complaint from a Bolton woman who claimed that the charity failed to help her pet kitten which was trapped under kitchen floorboards. Beverley Wilson, aged 35, of Pilkington Road, Kearsley, phoned the RSPCA emergency number
SIR: It is shameful that bullying at the children's home referred to in tonight's BEN was also in evidence when the children dined. It is disgusting that no one saw one child being left out. But congratulations to a caring Boltonian Alan Yates. You are
SIR: I refer to an article published (BEN, August 19) about glaucoma. The only statistics quoted were for 1 per cent of over 40s and 3.1 per cent of over 70s were affected by this complaint. I was 28 years old when I was diagnosed, although for a long
BOLTON schoolgirl Symone Longworth was still fighting for her life in the intensive care unit of a Merseyside hospital today. The 11-year-old, of View Street, Daubhill, was playing with friends when she fell more than six feet off a wall, suffering serious
A GUNMAN stole more than £1,600 after threatening to shoot staff at a Radcliffe building society. The hooded raider threatened cashiers after running into the Alliance and Leicester Building Society in Blackburn Street shortly before 5pm yesterday. He
He looked into her smiling eyes, And with certainty realised Their love could never die, Though his heart n'er reasoned why, She would always remain so young, For two hearts entwined belong, And nothing would ever separate That trust between each mate
FAST links to information around Europe are now available in Bolton, thanks to a new scheme launched at Bolton central library. The European Relay provides information about the European Union including official publications, documents, statistics, directories
IT'S "business as usual" for a firm left reeling by an arson attack on their premises. The entire office and its computer equipment were destroyed at Astra Windows, in Century Mill on George Street, Farnworth, by vandals who set fire to the basement below
A BOLTON man was still "very poorly" in hospital today following a hit and run accident near his home on Sunday night. Kenneth Bell, aged 62, was knocked down at the junction of Belmont Road and Blackburn Road, just yards from his home, at about 9.05pm
THE British Government faces a diplomatic dilemma. They had to allow the hijacked plane to land at Stansted yesterday to protect the 186 passengers and 13 crew. But it seems unthinkable that the hijackers should be returned to Saddam Hussein - a man with
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, August 28, 1971 AT least 30 bodies were recovered from the sea today after an explosion and fire wrecked a Greek holiday ship with 1,000 people on board. Many more passengers on the ship, the 11,000-ton car ferry Heleanna
COLIN Todd has a defensive crisis on his hands as Wanderers prepare for Sunday's Sky TV showdown at QPR. Key defender Gerry Taggart has joined the list of casualties crowding the Burnden treatment room after picking up hamstring injury in the closing
BURY just can't stop winning. Not even a host of injuries, re-shuffles and their worst performance of the season, it seems, can deprive the sizzling Shakers of the Midas touch. Pre-season title odds of 28-1 have tumbled dramatically in eleven short days
