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  • Rain wrecks Chorley CC's chances

    THE rain intervened to wash away any chance Chorley Cricket Club had of winning the Vaux Northern League over the Bank Holiday weekend. The crown went to St Annes on Monday without a ball being bowled. Second placed Chorley's game against Kendal on Saturday

  • Hotline to help catch hit-and-run driver

    POLICE hunting a callous motorist who left an elderly pedestrian for dead after a hit-and-run accident have set up a confidential hotline for information. Traffic officers hunting the motorist - who they believe may be a private hire taxi driver - are

  • Our Vera to switch on lights

    VERA Duckworth is leaving the Rovers Return for one night to come to Chorley to launch the town's Christmas festivities. Vera, played by actress Liz Dawn, tops a bill of Christmas entertainment currently being drawn up by Market Walk bosses. Provisional

  • Award nomination for charity champ Derek

    DEREK Gaskell, of Regent Road, Lostock, Bolton, has been nominated for a Whitbread Volunteer Action Award for his outstanding contribution to the community. For the last ten years Derek has been raising funds for the regional neurosurgical unit at Hope

  • Speed camera is blankety blank!

    CAMERAS aimed at catching motorists breaking the law have fallen foul of another form of criminal - the vandals! A speed camera on Bengal Street, Chorley, has been twisted round so that it is no longer focusing on the road to catch motorists but instead

  • Homes plan goes before council

    PLANS to turn a fire-damaged and badly vandalised old Chorley hall into housing went before councillors this week. Runshaw Hall, a Grade II Listed building, has already got the go-ahead to be transformed into a hotel. Chorley's planning committee, which

  • Cut the expenses

    SIR: I refer to the closure of Lever Edge House and Stocks Park House. If the councillors are so concerned about it, why don't they cut their expenses drastically? It would save us enough money to keep them open. After all, they have other sources of

  • 3M homes launched by former Street star

    THE rejuvenation of East Chorley takes a great leap forward this week with the launch of a new homes project on the old 3M Tape site. The former factory land at Steeley Lane was blighted with chemical contamination and had been at the centre of several

  • Who will pay?

    SIR: Now that the decision has been made that 40 old people are to be moved to new accommodation, can we have the answer to two questions from Councillor Peters. Will the residents involved have a choice of relocation? Will they be placed in other local

  • Council to block monumental mason

    A 10-YEAR battle to put the blocks on a controversial monumental mason was set to be stepped up this week. Council planners are to try again to stop Raphael Faith Monumental Masons operating out of Hamilton Road, Chorley. Residents have been complaining

  • Discipline from day one

    SIR: So hard-up local authorities and central government can suddenly find millions of pounds to spend on disruptive children who need to be "disciplined" in "sin bins" to finish their education. When will they ever learn? All children need to learn discipline

  • Fighting skin cancer

    SIR: May I through your columns bring to your readers' attention the Imperial Cancer Research Fund's new leaflet "SunSafe - a guide to skin protection"? This year, over 40,000 people in the UK will be diagnosed with skin cancer and about 4,000 of them

  • Magpies off to a great start

    Chorley 1 Guiseley 0 THEY say all good things come to an end and so, presumably, do all bad things. For the first time since 1982, when they won 3-1 at Matlock, Chorley kicked off a league campaign with a victory. It was a hard-earned three points too

  • Time to stop

    SIR: I was born and bred in Horwich and have consequently seen many changes to my home town over the years. Since Horwich lost its Urban District Council status in 1974, and was taken over by Bolton, there has been a steady decline in the fabric of the

  • Council plans Burnden tribute

    BOLTON Wanderers' move into the future is set to be marked with an exhibition of the club's past. Council arts chiefs are planning to hold an event called Football Glory: The Burnden Park Story at the Bolton Art Gallery, Le Mans Crescent from April 26

  • Packed programme with town's ramblers

    THE Bolton Group of the Ramblers' Association have another packed programme for September. On Saturday the 7th, they are off on a coach trip to walk stage six of the Eden Way from Aisgill to Sedbergh. Bookings on 01942 876144. The coach will leave Spa

  • Stag revellers lose their doll!

    A GROUP of stag night revellers have issued an urgent appeal - to find their blow-up doll! Best man Gareth McManus took out his brother Mark for a night of fun in Bolton town centre before he ties the knot tomorrow. And the life-size blow-up doll was

  • Libraries get the thumbs-up

    BOOKWORMS have given Bolton's libraries a good report. An in-depth survey carried out in the Central and branch libraries has revealed that most users are happy with the service offered. An astonishing 97 pc of users judged Bolton's Central library on

  • Poet's Corner

    In its den the Cobra sleeps Turn the key and out it leaps With power like a coiled spring It looks a menacing thing. Sun on paintwork, wind in hair Smell of petrol in the air Excitement mounts as I climb in it My heart doing a thousand revs per minute

  • Race against time for new school building

    CONTRACTORS face a race against time to get a single site school for children with behavioural difficulties ready for the new term. With just two weeks before the start of the new year Stocks Park School in Horwich should be ready to accommodate pupils

  • Van driver couldn't avoid hitting boy

    A BOY of 11 died after suffering serious head injuries when he was in an accident with a van on his way home from school. Kelvin Edwards, a first year pupil at Westhoughton High School, was knocked down as he crossed Wigan Road, Westhoughton, on March

  • Closing time

    THE fate of two elderly people's homes was surely determined many months ago when it was decided to run them down months ago after they were earmarked to become community care centres. Now, as expected social services chiefs have given the go-ahead for

  • Fattest of them all

    IT is impossible to understand why one man in industry is worth a pay package of up to £10 million over the next five years. But electronics giant GEC believe George Simpson is. Mr Simpson was tempted to move to GEC from a top job at the engineering group

  • From the BEN files

    25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, August 30, 1971 A MAUSOLEUM where the dead will lie in bed-like coffins, known as reposes, is being built in Nashville, Tennessee. The 20-storey structure is expected to take 10 years to complete, and will hold 65,000

  • Taggart's costly injury

    INJURY has cost Gerry Taggart the chance of an international comeback. The in-form Wanderers defender, omitted from the original selection, was due for a recall to the Northern Ireland World Cup squad until national boss Bryan Hamilton learned he was

  • Lora wants Cup place

    LORA Fairclough and Joanne Morley face a battle for the last automatic Solheim Cup place in the £100,000 Compaq Open which started in Sweden today. European captain Mickey Walker will name her side to face the United States at St Pierre from September

  • BGA outplayed by Lancashire

    LANCASHIRE 'B' proved far too strong for Bolton Golf Association beating them by 11-4 at Hindley Hall. The game was more or less sewn up at the foursomes stage as Lancashire took a decisive 4-1 lead. Andy Runciman and Lee Davies rallied the Bolton side

  • Vernacare say cheers to City Challenge

    VERNA Group company Vernacare officially reopened their mill on Slater Street in Bolton yesterday following a revamp involving the relocation of subsidiary company Karomed Limited. Verna Group Chairman and Chief Executive Jean Wilson, Secretary and Director

  • Teen yobs target memorial garden

    TEENAGE yobs have left a trail of destruction at Horwich Garden of Remembrance. They wrecked a park seat donated by the people of Crowborough, Horwich's twin town in Sussex, started dismantling stone walling and dumped empty beer cans and bottles in the

  • Halle-lujah for town's top brass!

    FOUR Bolton musicians will create history when they become the first performers to play in the new multi-million pound home for the Halle Orchestra. The Bridgewater International Concert Hall in Manchester opens its doors with the 1996 British Open Brass

  • Don't leave Daniel high and dry

    AN underwater photographer from Bolton is appealing for a sponsor to allow him to continue his studies in a highly specialised field. Daniel Bamping, 22, of Hillside Avenue, Bromley Cross, is already a specialist in the filming and photography of environmental

  • The 'Face of Oxfam' leaves for a new life

    THE woman who has been Bolton's face of Oxfam for more than 30 years is leaving to care for some new "life on earth". Lesley Ridyard, of Egerton Vale, Egerton is upping sticks and leaving for the United States on September 15 to greet the arrival of a

  • High-fliers beat Magpies

    Chorley Magpies 11 Hunslet Hawks 14 CHORLEY signed off for the season with a narrow defeat at home to Hunslet who just missed out on promotion from division two. Magpies coach Kevin Tamati will look back on a season that started badly but improved significantly

  • Award nomination for charity champ Derek

    DEREK Gaskell, of Regent Road, Lostock, Bolton, has been nominated for a Whitbread Volunteer Action Award for his outstanding contribution to the community. For the last ten years Derek has been raising funds for the regional neurosurgical unit at Hope

  • Anger as homes closure is approved

    FURY erupted after social services chiefs gave the go ahead yesterday for the controversial closure of two old people's homes. Staff and relatives of people who live in Stocks Park at Horwich and Lever Edge House, Great Lever, packed the public gallery

  • Mobile again, thanks to 'miracle' powder

    A BOLTON pensioner claims a new product developed by a Czech professor has given her a fresh lease of life after years of pain and immobility. Arthro Vite - a powdered collagen preparation which is mixed with water and swallowed - is being hailed as a

  • £3m leisure plans for empty store

    CHORLEY town centre could be home to a new leisure complex if a planned £3 million development on Pall Mall is given the go-ahead. The former Normid Superstore building would include a 12-lane ten-pin bowling alley, a four-screen cinema seating almost

  • Girls on top in the world of education

    FOUR women whose diverse backgrounds have led them into totally different ways of life have been brought together by the world of education. Marion Cowley, aged 37, left school at 16 with no qualifications. She embarked on a hairdressing training course

  • Councillor condemns quarry decision

    THE decision to allow waste to be dumped in a quarry overlooking a picturesque village has been condemned by a local councillor. Lancashire County Council has decided that J and J Ashcroft can start tipping at the Little Quarries which backs on to homes

  • Titanic conclusions difficult

    SIR: MP Lawrence Cunliffe and Viscount Goschen have to be thanked for looking into the 1912 Titanic disaster and for sending me a copy of the MAIB's (Marine Accident Investigation Branch's) 1991/92 re-appraisal of the affair. There seemed to be many difficulties

  • Whiskey a go-go . . .

    A TEAM of staff from the O'Leary's Irish pub, Bradshawgate, are all geared up to compete in the first ever Dublin Dash. The aim of the event is for teams of four to make their way to the Irish capital taking an empty Jameson's Irish whiskey bottle to

  • Early clash for title rivals

    ONE of the top games this weekend is the Bolton Combination Premier Division clash between the two sides expected to be right up there all season battling tooth and nail for the championship title - AFC Walkers v Hindley Green. The unknown quantity are

  • If you don't like it, then COMPLAIN!

    CHILDREN in care are being taught how to complain when they are not happy with their treatment. Bolton's Social Services Department has been working closely with a group of young people in the town's Young People's Advice and Support Service (BYPASS).

  • Shakers wait for new tribunal date

    BURY keeper Dean Kiely's price tag will not be affected by York City's transfer tribunal walk-out on Tuesday. The Football League will not set a new date until the selling club have outlined the reasons behind their early departure from the original hearing