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  • Chamber's NVQ offer

    THE Bolton & Bury Chamber of Commerce can offer young people aged 16-25 years who are employed at local companies, the opportunity to gain a National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) as Administration Modern Apprentices. The NVQ level 2 and 3 is geared

  • Chocolate conman steals pensioner's life savings

    A THIEF stole a pensioner's lifesavings after calling at her home - to present her with a box of chocolates. The surprised 86-year-old woman accepted his gift and allowed the conman into the house. But, after he had left, the pensioner discovered her

  • Smithills School arson attack

    A PASSER-by walking a dog saved a Bolton school after arsonists set fire to a classroom. £10,000 worth of damage was caused just four days before Smithills School was due to reopen. Headmaster, Mr Mike Keogh, said he was "absolutely sickened". "This has

  • Careers festival aimed at adults

    BOLTON people can launch a new career with a training and jobs festival on Wednesday. It is being hosted by the employment opportunities agency the Quest Centre in conjunction with Bolton City Challenge and is aimed at adults rather than school leavers

  • Alarm call over smoke detectors

    ELDERLY residents in Horwich who do not have a smoke detector fitted in their homes are being urged to apply. Local firemen have joined forces with Horwich Town Council and the Rotary Club to ensure that all over 60s in the town have the protection of

  • Cure this £1.25m headache!

    DAYS off sick are costing Bolton's cash-starved social services chiefs £1.25 million. Manual workers are taking an average of 20 days a year off white collar staff 14. Now councillors are calling on bosses to get tough with staff. Labour Cllr Guy Harkin

  • Gang terrorise councillor's family

    A FURIOUS Bolton councillor has issued an ultimatum to a gang of teenagers he claims are terrorising his family. Labour Cllr Paul Perry, who represents Tonge ward and lives in a crescent off Crompton Way, says the gang gathered outside his house on three

  • All-time low

    SIR: Now that the criminal element has reached an all-time low at Overdale, would it not be reasonable to suggest we go back to pre 1837 days and practices. I put it to the decent citizens of this borough that as, and when, the culprits of the latest

  • Craven Trophy is revived

    BELLE Vue take a break from team racing to stage their only individual speedway meeting of the season tonight (7 30), writes JOHN TURNER. The Peter Craven Memorial Trophy has been revived after a four-year break, with fans getting two meetings in one.

  • Striving for peace

    SIR: In answer to K A Haslam, the CND placed the flowers on Bolton's War Memorial not to honour Japanese murderers nor indeed Western murderers. It was to point out what the War Memorial was put there for in the first place: to respect the reason what

  • Wigan facing last chance of glory

    WIGAN keep the same side that crushed Workington last week for their Premiership semi-final clash at home to Bradford Bulls tomorrow night. A clean bill of health means the deposed champions have no injury excuses as they make their final bid for silverware

  • The fair price?

    SIR: The long-awaited decision by Bolton councillors on the future of Red Moss has had to be deferred because, despite repeated requests over several months by the Planning Department to UK Waste for additional information, UK Waste only decided to submit

  • Soft drinks with a kick

    SIR: Last year, the Council acted very quickly to ban posters from advertising alcoholic soft drinks on council-owned land. This represented a part of the public pressure which caused the drinks industry to produce a code of conduct on the packaging and

  • Chapel history on display

    AN exhibition tracing the history of Bolton and its town centre Bank Street Chapel over the past 300 years is to be held in the chapel from September 14 to 20. Items on display have been assembled by the chapel's history committee under the guidance of

  • Atherton LR in search of a Cup tonic

    ATHERTON LR must forget about a disastrous start to life this season in the Unibond Division 1 and concentrate on cup action at Northern Counties East Premier Division side Liversedge in the FA Cup preliminary round.. The trip across to West Yorkshire

  • Churches greet new Hindu owners

    THE Bolton Interfaith Fellowship has arranged a meeting to greet the new owners of the Unitarian Church in Deane Road, Bolton, which has been sold to a Hindu community. The building is to be converted into a Hindu temple. The meeting will take place in

  • Bolton's teenagers get street cred

    BOLTON'S young dedicated followers of fashion have been given the star treatment normally enjoyed by Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista in this month's BBC Clothes Show Magazine. The August edition of the £1.60 glossy mag concentrates on the kind of

  • Search for treasurer after 35 racegoers are left stranded

    FRANTIC members of a Horwich sports club were today desperately trying to trace their treasurer to collect £10,000 for a racing trip to Scotland. The 35 members of the Punters Club from the Albert Arms, at Lee Lane, had to delay leaving this morning for

  • Shakers ready to topple 'giants'

    BATTLE-HUNGRY Bury are ready to slay one of the Second Division's sleeping giants at Gigg Lane tomorrow. The unbeaten Shakers prepare for the arrival of Bristol City with their sights set on establishing themselves in pole position. And they are in the

  • Sellars hopes for a quick return

    By GORDON SHARROCK SCOTT Sellars stepped up his bid for a role in Wanderers' big screen test today. The Burnden midfield ace, who missed the 3-1 victory over Norwich, resumed training in an effort to force his way back for Sunday's Sky TV special at QPR

  • £1m store handed over

    BLACKROD-based Allen Commerical Developments, the property development arm of the construction, civil engineering, housebuilding and plant hire group Allen plc, has handed over a new £1 million high-bay warehouse to Abbotts Packaging Ltd, part of the

  • Traders and council act to lure shoppers

    TRADERS and council bosses are working together to tackle the problem of parking in Bolton town centre. At a special meeting of Bolton Retailers Committee, traders heard that planning and engineering officers were undertaking a major review of car parking

  • Union blames postal bosses for backlog

    UNION bosses claim that 30,000 items of first class post have been deliberately delayed because Royal Mail management stopped all second deliveries in Bolton. Ian Young of the Bolton and Bury Branch of the Communication Workers' Union said the Royal Mail

  • More bus links ease hospital visits

    PEOPLE heading for Bolton General Hospital are set to benefit from improved bus services starting on Monday. Stagecoach Ribble is extending its half-hourly Monday to Saturday B8 service from Andrew Lane, Bank Top, Astley Bridge and Blackburn road to the

  • Wife slams 'soft' sentence on her thieving husband

    BOLTON'S worst shoplifter is back behind bars. And today his wife slammed the sentence for being too short. Harry Hankinson, aged 48, of Coniston Street, Astley Bridge, was sent to prison for 18 weeks for a range of offences, but wife Linda claims her

  • Be prepared to say 'no'

    SIR: Parents, everywhere, are keeping watch over their children just a little more closely at present. Once again, we were rocked by another seemingly inexplicable attack on young and defenceless children. No sooner had we come to terms with the Dunblane

  • Shop the evil drug peddlars

    RESIDENTS are being urged to report the names of drug dealers in a bid to combat the evil epidemic. Police have introduced their "dealerspotting" initiative in a bid to remove the increasing amount of drugs being sold on the streets of Bolton and the

  • Poet's Corner

    Shallow now our rivers flow Trees are dying, reservoirs low Standpipes threatened, share a bath Even Grandma finds that a laugh. The flowers are wilting, brown the grass Will this heatwave ever pass? Relentless sun in sky clear blue Treat your hair to

  • Why health unit can't help

    A UNIT set up to curb town hall sickness levels does not even have headache tablets, it has been revealed. Social services committee councillors were astounded when they were told that the council's occupational health unit was not there to hand out medicines

  • Jane wins back top film role

    HOLLYWOOD producers have dropped an attempt to glitz up Bolton playwright Jim Cartwright's acclaimedZRise and Fall of Little Voice. The development means Rossendale actress Jane Horrocks - who starred in the award-winning West End stage production of

  • Plane pair in crash at death airfield

    TWO men had a lucky escape when their light aircraft crashed at Barton Aerodrome last night - three days after a pilot and passenger were killed at the airfield. The single engine Cherokee crashed into bushes and undergrowth after the pilot was unable

  • Sickening record

    IN the week that cash-strapped Bolton Council has to take the tough decision to close two old people's homes to save money, comes the staggering announcement that days off sick are costing social services chiefs £1.25 million a year. To rub salt in the

  • 25 YEARS AGO

    From the Evening News, August 30, 1971 GRIM and gloomy weather made it one of the quietest Bank Holiday week-ends on record. In many areas the roads were less busy than during a normal week-end. Many Bolton stayed at home because the holiday fell so close